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The Sum of Christian Religion
The sum of Christian religion: delivered by Zacharias Ursinus in his lectures upon the Catechism authorised by the noble Prince Frederick, throughout his dominions: wherein are debated and resolved the questions of whatsoever points of moment, which have been or are controversed in divinity. Translated into English by Henry Parry, out of the last & best Latin editions, together with some supply of wa[n]ts out of his discourses of divinity, and with correction of sundry faults & imperfections, which are [sic] as yet remaining in the best corrected Latin.The summe of Christian religion: deliuered by Zacharias Vrsinus in his lectures vpon the Catechism autorised by the noble Prince Frederick, throughout his dominions: wherein are debated and resolued the questions of whatsoeuer points of moment, which haue beene or are controuersed in diuinitie. Translated into English by Henrie Parrie, out of the last & best Latin editions, together with some supplie of wa[n]ts out of his discourses of diuinitie, and with correction of sundrie faults & imperfections, which ar [sic] as yet remaining in the best corrected Latine.
Oxford: printed by Joseph Barnes, 1587Oxford: printed by Ioseph Barnes, 1587
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1 HOW MANY WAYS MEN ARE CALLED SONS.
1 HOW MANIE WAIES MEN ARE CALLED SONNES.
Every son is a son either by nature, or by grace.1 A son by nature or a natural and proper son is he, who is partaker of his fathers nature and essence: or, who hath the essence or nature of him, whose son he is, communicated unto him; and that either wholly, as Christ in respect of his Godhead: for unto him the father by begetting him communicated his essence whole and the same: or in part, as men, unto whom is communicated some little severed portion of their fathers essence. Wherefore a natural son beginneth at one and the same time both to be, and to be a son.
EVery sonne is a sonne either by nature, or by grace.1 A son by nature or a naturall and proper son is hee, who is partaker of his fathers nature and essence: or, who hath the essence or nature of him, whose sonne he is, communicated vnto him; and that either wholie, as Christ in respect of his Godhead: for vnto him the father by begetting him communicated his essence whole and the same: or in part, as men, vnto whom is communicated some little seuered portion of their fathers essence. Wherfore a naturall sonne beginneth at one and the same time both to be, and to be a sonne.
- 1A natural sonne.