A14216:1467
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
Part 2 › WHICH WAS CONCEIVED BY THE HOLY GHOST, BORNE OF THE virgin Mary.
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.
WHICH WAS CONCEIVED BY THE HOLY GHOST, BORNE OF THE virgin Mary.
Whereby three things are signified. 1. That the mass of his humane nature was created or formed, in the womb of the Virgin, miraculously, and beside the order of things disposed of God in nature, by the immediate working & operation of the holy Ghost; without the seed and substance of man. Objection. But we are also formed and made of God. Answer. We mediately, Christ immediately.1 2. That the Holy Ghost did in the same moment and by the same operation cleanse this mass, and from the very point of the conception sanctify it; that is, he caused, that original sin should not issue into it: and that for these causes. First, that he might be a pure sacrifice and a sufficient ransom for our redemption,