A14216:2007
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.
5 How the sacraments of the old and new Testament agree, and how they differ.
5 How the sacramentes of the olde and new Testament agree, and how they differ.
1They differ first in rites, whereof change & alteration was made at christs coming, that thereby might be signified the ceasing of the old Testament, & the beginning or succeeding of the new Testament. 2. They differ in multitude and number. There were moe and more laborious, here fewer and more easy rites. 3. In signification. Those signified christ to come, these Christ that was come. The signification is diverse, as the circumstance of time is diverse, which the sacraments of the old and new Testament signify. For the sacraments of the old church, signified the time to come of christ which should come: our sacraments signify the time past of Christ already manifested in the flesh.2 4. In binding and obliging men. The old bound only Abraham's posterity, ours bind the whole church of all nations & countries.3 5. In continuance. The old were to endure but until the coming of the Messiah: the new until the end of the world. 6. In clearness. Those are more obscure and dark, because they signify things to be manifested: but these more clear and plain, because they signify things already manifested.4 They agree, 1 In the author. 2. In the things signified, or in substance. For by the sacraments of both testaments the same things are offered, signified, and promised unto us, even remission of sins, and the gift of the holy ghost, and that by christ alone. This is proved in the Epistle to the Hebrews. Jesus christ yesterday, and to day, the same is also for ever. But these are not in respect of rites and ceremonies the same: therefore they are the same in respect of the thing by them signified.