A14216:2248
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.
8 Now when Christ saith, This, that is, this bread, is my body, and, This cup is my blood, the speech is sacramental or metonymical, because the name of the thing signified is attributed to the sign it self: that is, it is meant, that the bread is the sacrament or sign of his body and doth represent him, and doth testify that Christs body is offered for us on the cross, and is given unto us to be the food of eternal life, and therefore is the instrument of the holy Ghost to maintain and increase this food in us, as Saint Paul saith, 1. Corinth. 10. The bread is the communion of the body of Christ, that is, it is that thing, by which we are made partakers of christs body. And elsewhere he saith: We have been all made to drink into one spirit. The same is the meaning also: when it is said, ⟨p. 774⟩that the bread is called christs body, for a similitude which the thing signified hath with the sign, namely, in that christs body nourisheth the spiritual life as bread doth the corporal life: and for that assured and certain joint receiving of the thing and the sign in the right use of the sacrament. And this is the sacramental union of the bread which is showed by a sacramental kind of speaking▪ but no such local conjunction, which is by some imagined.
8 Now when Christ saith, This, that is, this bread, is my body, and, This cup is my bloud, the speech is sacramental or metonymical, because the name of the thing signified is attributed to the sign it selfe: that is, it is meant, that the bread is the sacrament or signe of his bodie and doth represent him, and dooth testifie that Christes bodie is offered for vs on the crosse, and is giuen vnto vs to be the foode of eternal life, and therefore is the instrument of the holie Ghost to maintaine and encrease this food in vs, as Saint Paul saith, 1. Corinth. 10. The bread is the communion of the bodie of Christ, that is, it is that thing, by which wee are made partakers of christs bodie. And elsewhere hee saith: We haue been al made to drink into one spirit. The same is the meaning also: when it is said, ⟨p. 774⟩