A14216:1561
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 WHAT CHRIST SUFFERED.
1 WHAT CHRIST SVFFERED.
BY the name of Passion is understood the whole humiliation, or the obedience of his whole humiliation, all the miseries, torments, ignominies, pains and griefs, unto all which Christ was subject, and obnoxious, as well in soul as in body, from the point of his nativity, until the hour of his death & resurrection. Mat. 26.38. My soul is very heavy even unto the death. Mat. 27.46. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Isa. 53.4. Surely he hath carried our sorrows. But principally by the name of Passion is signified the last act of the humiliation, and pains of Christ: the chief part of which his pains and dolours was in his soul, wherein he felt the ire and wrath of God against sin: which also was the cause why he so trembled and shook at death, & was so faint-hearted in his death, whereas other Martyrs of Christ have sustained stoutly and courageously extreme torments. For the torments & punishments of others have no proportion with the torments and punishments of Christ. For others, as Stephen, Laurence, and ⟨p. 555⟩the like, sustained only corporal pains and torments: but were upheld within by the holy ghost. But Christ suffered the pains both of body & soul. For he suffered first our infirmity, that is, the infirmities of humane nature: he hungered, thirsted, was weary, was stricken with sadness and grief. 2 He suffered poverty. Luk 9.58. The son of man hath not whereon to lay his head. 3 He suffered infinite injuries, contumelies, slanders, layings in wait for him, backbitings, reproaches, blasphemies, annihilating, and contempt.