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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.
If any man object, that they also are subject to temporal death, and other calamities, who have all their sins remitted them; and therefore all temporal evils are not the punishments or effects of sin: 1but some have other causes: we answer, that the consequence holdeth not from the denial of one particular to the denial of the general. For albeit the calamities of the regenerate are not effects of sin as a punishment, which is inflicted on men sinning, that so the justice of God might be satisfied: yet are they effects of sin as chastisements and exercises, whereby sin is repressed, and more and more purged out, until at length by corporal death the whole be abolished. Now that of the blind man, ⟨p. 117⟩Joh. 9. Neither this man hath sinned nor his parents: Christ meaneth not simply that they had not sinned, or that their sins were not a cause of this calamity: but that their sins were not the principal cause, why he was borne blind; but that the works of God should be showed on him, Christ by a miracle opening his eyes.
If any man obiect, that they also are subiect to temporall death, and other calamities, who haue all their sinnes remitted them; and therefore al temporall euils are not the punishmentes or effects of sinne: 1but some haue other causes: we answere, that the consequence holdeth not from the denial of one particular to the denial of the general. For albeit the calamities of the regenerate are not effectes of sin as a punishment, which is inflicted on men sinning, that so the iustice of God might be satisfied: yet are they effects of sinne as chastisementes and exercises, whereby sinne is repressed, and more and more purged out, vntill at length by corporall death the whole be abolished. Now that of the blind man, ⟨p. 117⟩Ioh. 9. Neither this man hath sinned nor his parents: Christ meaneth not simply that they had not sinned, or that their sins were not a cause of this calamity: but that their sinnes were not the principal cause, why he was borne blind; but that the woorkes of God should be shewed on him, Christ by a miracle opening his eies.