A14216:6
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.
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE, HENRY EARLE OF PEMBROKE, LORD HARBERT OF CARDIFF, MARMION, AND S. QVINTINE, KNIGHT OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE Garter, and Lord President of WALES, Grace and peace, with increase of Honour.
TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE, HENRIE EARLE OF PENBROOKE, LORD HARBERT OF CARDIFF, MARMION, AND S. QVINTINE, KNIGHT OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE Garter, and Lord President of WALES, Grace and peace, with encrease of Honor.
IF in this time of trouble, and disorderly age of the world, it may not seem, right Honourable, over-great boldness in me to press your Honour with these my labours, who are already over-pressed with your own, which with continual and unceasing care & watchfulness you undertake for the quiet & repose of this our Church & Country: I shall humbly crave of your Honour to lend a favourable eye unto this little work, & to reach your hand of approbation unto it, that so being fenced with your honourable protection & countenance, it may the more securely & freely put it self in the view, & bear the face & countenance of others. The reasons & causes which have induced me to presume thus far, are such as I make no doubt, but upon declaration ⟨image 3⟩of them to obtain and find your Honour most ready and easy in yielding your assent. For, were it that your ancient favour and good will manifoldly extended to my father, who long since departed this mortality, had not at all stretched to met his son, but had with him alone both lived & died: Yet might not I, without some scar of impiety, commit that ever the memory of that should die in me, the profit & pleasure whereof I knew in him so long to live. But seeing it hath further also, as I lately was given to understand, so pleased your Honour, that this happy course of your favour should not begin & end in one, but should continue & lineally run on; & that the force & virtue thereof, should pass continuately from the root unto the branches: much more blameable verily would be my silent forgetfulness, & double would the fault be, where duty doubly is required. In which considerations, if I should have made any distrust of your good acceptation, or should any way have with-drawn this small present, by misdoubting the welcome it should receive at your Honours hands: I might have been most justly arraigned & condemned of an undutiful & ungrateful cogitation, being without all either colour of excuse, or shadow of pretence to free & acquit me from it. And that especially, seeing the Author, whom I interpret, & the matter which he containeth, are both of that quality, as, if I stood to wait & expect a fit time & a worthy person for them, no time might seem fitter than this for which I should reserve them, no person worthier than your self to whom I might present them.