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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.
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 Iohn. cap. 3. is the truest and plainest: Sinne is a transgression of the Law: or, what soeuer is repugnant to the Law. But because here mens mindes seeke further, what those euils are, which are forbidden and condemned by the law of God: we must adde an explication of this definition out of the Sermons and declarations of the Law scattered throughout the whole Scripture: to wit, That sinne is a defect, or an inclination, or action repugnant to the law of God, offending God, & making him that sinneth togither with al his posterity, guiltie of temporal & eternall punishments, except remission bee graunted for the Sonne of God our Mediatour.