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The sum of Christian religion, delivered by Zacharias Ursinus first, by way of catechism,…The summe of Christian religion, delivered by Zacharias Ursinus first, by way of catechism,…
The sum of Christian religion, delivered by Zacharias Ursinus first, by way of catechism, and then afterwards more enlarged by a sound and judicious exposition, and application of the same : wherein also are debated and resolved the questions of whatsoever points of moment have been, or are controversed in divinity / first Englished by D. Henry Parry, and now again conferred with the best and last Latin edition of D. David Pareus, sometimes Professor of Divinity in Heidelberg ; whereunto is added a large and full alphabetical table of such matters as are therein contained ; together with all the Scriptures that are occasionally handled, by way either of controversy, exposition, or reconciliation, neither of which was done before, but now is performed for the readers delight and benefit ; to this work of Ursinus are now at last annexed the Theological miscellanies of D. David Pareus in which the orthodoxall tenets are briefly and solidly confirmed, and the contrary errors of the Papists, Ubiquitaries, Antitrinitaries, Eutychians, Socinians, and Arminians fully refuted ; and now translated into English out of the original Latin copy by A.R.The summe of Christian religion, delivered by Zacharias Ursinus first, by way of catechism, and then afterwards more enlarged by a sound and judicious exposition, and application of the same : wherein also are debated and resolved the questions of whatsoever points of moment have been, or are controversed in divinitie / first Englished by D. Henry Parry, and now again conferred with the best and last Latine edition of D. David Pareus, sometimes Professour of Divinity in Heidelberge ; whereunto is added a large and full alphabeticall table of such matters as are therein contained ; together with all the Scriptures that are occasionally handled, by way either of controversie, exposition, or reconciliation, neither of which was done before, but now is performed for the readers delight and benefit ; to this work of Ursinus are now at last annexed the Theologicall miscellanies of D. David Pareus in which the orthodoxall tenets are briefly and solidly confirmed, and the contrary errours of the Papists, Ubiquitaries, Antitrinitaries, Eutychians, Socinians, and Arminians fully refuted ; and now translated into English out of the originall Latine copie by A.R.
London: printed by James Young, 1645
Title page: Internet Archive scan of the Early English Books microfilm
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.
1. What Christs Unction or Anointing is.
1. What Christs Ʋnction or Annointing is.
Anointing in the Old Testament was a Ceremony, whereby, according to Gods ordinance, Prophets, Priests, and Kings were anointed, either with some special, or common oil: that it might stand for a testimony, to those who were rightly anointed, that they were called of God to the administering of one of these functions, and that they should be furnished from God with gifts necessary for the performing of that whereunto they were called. For anointing signified, §11. The calling and ordaining of any to the office either of a Prophet, or of a Priest, or of a King. §22. It signified the promise and bestowing of gifts necessary thereto: For, to whom God committed any office, and whom he caused to be anointed, to these also he subministred the gifts of the holy Ghost necessary for the discharging of it, as knowledge, wisdom, strength, fortitude, industry, authority, and such others. §33. It signifieth the fragrantness, or sweet savour of the labours employed in that vocation: that is, it was a testimony that the labours were grateful and acceptable to God, and that he would prosper such labours, as the Anointed should with a true faith, and cheerfully ⟨p. 227⟩undergo in executing the function committed unto them of God. We are unto God the sweet savour of Christ in them that are saved. 1Your labour is not in vain in the Lord. Further, the out ward anointing did, as a sign, represent the inward, that is, the gifts of the holy Ghost, as the things signified, by reason of a correspondent Analogy and proportion. For, as oil maketh the dry parts, being anointed therewith, lively, agile, and able or fit to do their duty, and besides, to send forth a sweet savour: So the holy Ghost furnishing them with necessary gifts, which are ordained to a function, giveth them strength and power, whereby they, being of themselves unfit to do any good, are made fit and able to work, and accomplish things grateful unto God: that is, the holy Ghost causeth them to dispatch readily, and with dexterity, the parts of that duty which is enjoined them, and to do things acceptable to God, and available for the preservation of the Church.