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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.
that is, all the gifts and graces, whatsoever are in all the blessed Angels and Men, and those in the most excellent and high degree, that he might be sufficient for the restoring, ruling, preserving of his Church, and for administering of the government of the whole world, and for the directing thereof to the safety and salvation of his Church. God giveth him not the spirit by measure. Wherefore God, 1thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me: Therefore hath the Lord anointed me. The anointing therefore is of the whole person, yet with this difference, That it is so applied to both natures, as it signifieth the ordaining of them to the Mediatorship. For he is Mediator according to both natures, who was always present with his Church,2 even before the flesh was born: But as his anointing designeth the communicating of the gifts of the holy Ghost, so his humane nature only is meant to be anointed. For his Godhead, because it is always in it self goodness most perfect, and passing measure, is not anointed, but anointeth and filleth with gifts and graces both his own humanity, which his Godhead doth personally inhabit, as also the Elect and chosen. Wherefore one and the same Christ, in respect of his divers natures, is both anointed and anointer, as raiser, and raised. For the Father anointeth with the holy Ghost, but by the Lord: So that Irenaeus saith prettily,3 That by the name of anointing was comprised and understood the three persons of the Godhead; The anointer, the Father: the anointed, the Son: and the anointing, which is the holy Ghost. Ob. But it is nowhere ⟨p. 228⟩read, 4that Christ was anointed. Ans. Christ was not anointed typically, ceremonially, or sacramentally: but really, and spiritually, that is, he received the thing it self, which was prefigured and signified by the ceremonial anointing, which was the holy Ghost: as it is said, Wherefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.