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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.
3 Whether Delivery be necessary and certain.
3 Whether Deliuerie be necessarie and certaine.
That some should be delivered and saved from destruction is necessary. Objection. But it is free unto God, 1even to save none. Answer. It is free unto God, to save either all, or none, or some: for he was not bound to us, that he should save us. Rom. 11.35. Who hath given unto him first, and he shall be recompensed? Yet is it necessary that he should save some, not by any absolute necessity, but by such as is called necessity by supposition.
THat some should be deliuered and saued from destruction is necessarie. Obiection. But it is free vnto God, 1euen to saue none. Answere. It is free vnto God, to saue either al, or none, or some: for he was not bound to vs, that he should saue vs. Rom. 11.35. Who hath giuen vnto him first, and he shal be recompensed? Yet is it necessarie that he should saue some, not by any absolute necessitie, but by such as is called necessitie by supposition.
- 1The delivery of some necessary.The deliuerie of some necessarie.
First, because God hath most freely and unchangeably decreed,