A14216:1589
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.
2 Whether it was requisite and necessary that Christ should die.
IT was requisite and necessary that Christ should die, 1. In respect of the justice of God, that so his justice might be satisfied which required the death of men, by whom it was violated. For the hurting & offending of the greatest good ⟨p. 563⟩is to be expiated with the greatest punishment, or with the utmost destruction of nature, that is, with the death of the guilty condemned for sin, according to that, Rom. 6.23. The wages of sin is death. Now it was requisite that the son of God should die, that he might be a sufficient ransom for our sins. For no creature could have sustained such a punishment, as should have been equivalent to eternal punishment, and yet withal should have been temporal. Objection. They have deserved eternal punishment, whosoever are not reconciled to God by Christ. Therefore the souls ought not to be separated from their bodies, that they might suffer eternal damnation. Answer. It doth not follow▪ but this rather, That therefore both body and soul must be together, that they may suffer it, which at length shall so come to pass.
IT was requisite and necessarie that Christ should die, 1. In respect of the iustice of God, that so his iustice might be satisfied which required the death of men, by whom it was violated. For the hurting & offending of the greatest good ⟨p. 563⟩is to bee expiated with the greatest punishment, or with the vtmost destruction of nature, that is, with the death of the giltie condemned for sinne, according to that,