A14216:194
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.
WHAT SIN IS.
WHAT SINNE IS.
IT is agreed on of all men,1 that sin is a thing displeasing God, contrary to righteousness, & deserving punishment, as it is said, Psalm. 5. Thou art not a God that loveth wickedness. As therefore the rule of righteousness is the will of god: so of the contrary, we are not otherwhere to know what sin is, then by the same rule of mans life & actions. Therefore the definition of sin in the 1. Epist. of John. cap. 3. is the truest and plainest: Sin is a transgression of the Law: or, what soever is repugnant to the Law. But because here mens minds seek further, what those evils are, which are forbidden and condemned by the law of God: we must add an explication of this definition out of the Sermons and declarations of the Law scattered throughout the whole Scripture: to wit, That sin is a defect, or an inclination, or action repugnant to the law of God, offending God, & making him that sinneth together with all his posterity, guilty of temporal & eternal punishments, except remission be granted for the Son of God our Mediator.
IT is agreed on of all men,1 that sinne is a thing displeasing God, contrarie to righteousnes, & deseruing punishment, as it is said, Psalm. 5. Thou art not a God that loueth wickednes. As therefore the rule of righteousnes is the wil of god: so of the cōtrary, we are not otherwhere to know what sinne is, then by the same rule of mans life & actions. Therefore the definition of sin in the 1. Epist. of