A14216:936
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.
2 Who and what God is.
When it is demanded, who is the true god, 1we are to hold most firmly and surely, that he alone is the true god, who even from the beginning of mankind did not only manifest himself in the nature of things by the steppes and prints of his divinity shining therein, but especially in the Church, by his word delivered, and other famous testimonies of miracles, deliveries, and consolations, whereby he plainly teacheth whom & what he will be acknowledged and published by us to be, and that he is not acknowledged or worshipped of any, but of them, who think according to this word both of him and his will, neither is the ⟨p. 302⟩true knowledge of him found else-where than in this word. The certainty of this position, is hereof most manifest, for that all those who imagine GOD to be other in essence, or nature, or will, than he hath testified himself to be in his own manifestations and revealings, do not embrace and worship at all the true GOD, but an other thing of their own framing, in stead of the true GOD, according to these sayings, John. 4.22. Ye worship that which ye know not: we worship that which we know: for salvation is of the Jews. And cap. 5. vers. 23. He that honoureth not the son, the same honoureth not the father which hath sent him. Gal. 4.8. But then when ye knew not GOD, ye did service unto them which by nature are not Gods. Eph. 2.12. Ye were at that time without Christ, & were aliens from the common-wealth of Israel, and were strangers from the Covenant of promise, and had no hope, and were without GOD in the world. Act. 17.23. Whom ye then ignorantly worship, him show I unto you.