A14216:1339
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.
THE FIRST CONCLUSION. The son of God is a subsistent in the flesh borne of the Virgin, and before the flesh.
THE FIRST CONCLVSION. The sonne of God is a subsistent in the flesh borne of the Virgin, and before the flesh.
THE orders or sorts of Arguments which confirm this Conclusion, are eight in number. To the first belong those testimonies, which expressly teach ⟨p. 468⟩and distinguish two natures in Christ, as that the humane nature was taken by the divine nature. The argument is framed thus: He that assumed the flesh, is other from the flesh, and a subsistent, even before the flesh. 1Again; That which cometh into the flesh, is other from the flesh into which it cometh: but the son of God, or the Word, is even the very same, who assumed and took the flesh, and came in it, John 1.14 Heb. 2.14.16.1. John. 4.2. Therefore, the son of necessity is another nature from the flesh taken, and a subsistent, even before the flesh borne of the Virgin. For that which is the son, and putteth on and carrieth flesh, it must needs be that the same is a person, and was subsisting before the flesh was taken. Hither also belong all those testimonies, which oppose in Christ his divine nature to his humane nature, or flesh, and distinguish that from this, as