A14216:2314
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.
11 Open blasphemers ought not to be baptized. For they ought not to be baptized, who believe not with their whole hart. Wherefore Philip saith to the Eunuch, If thou believest with all thine hart, thou mayest be baptized. So John also Baptized none but such as confessed their sins. Now if blasphemers ⟨p. 797⟩and unbelievers are not to be baptized, it followeth that they are to be shut out of the church, & not to be admitted to the receiving of the sacraments They who ought not to be baptized, neither ought they to be admitted unto he Supper: For there is one and the same reason in •oth.
11 Open blasphemers ought not to be baptized. For they ought not to bee baptized, who beleeue not with their whole hart. Wherefore Philip saith to the Eunuch, If thou beleeuest with al thine hart, thou maiest be baptized. So Iohn also Baptized none but such as confessed their sinnes. Now if blasphemers ⟨p. 797⟩and vnbeleeuers are not to be baptized, it followeth that they are to bee shut out of the church, & not to be admitted to the receiuing of the sacraments They who ought not to be baptized, neither ought they to be admitted vnto he Supper: For there is one and the same reason in •oth.
12 They who are not as yet baptized are not to be ••mitted unto the supper: but to them who forsake their Baptism, Bap•••m is no Baptism, according to that of the Apostle, […] 2.25. If thou be a transgressor of the Law; thy circumcision is made uncircumcision. Therefore they who forsake their Baptism, are not to be admitted unto the Supper. Objection. Then they who forsake their Baptism, are also to be baptized after their receiving into the church. Answer. Their receiving into the church by Baptism is firm and in force to them that repent, without any iteration of the sign. But seeing Baptism is an entrance into the church, they who forsake it, are not in the church; and therefore as long as they continue such, they are not to be admitted either into the Church, or unto the supper.