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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.
so it was necessary that he should be anointed not with typical oil, but with the signified and true oil, which was the holy Ghost: For such as the office was, such should the anointing be. But the office was not typical, but the very thing it self: Therefore such also should the anointing be.
so it was necessary that he should be annointed not with typicall oyle, but with the signified and true oyle, which was the holy Ghost: For such as the office was, such should the annointing be. But the office was not typicall, but the very thing it selfe: Therefore such also shold the annointing be.
Hence we learn and understand these two things: 1. That Christ hath his name not from the ceremonial anointing, 1but from the thing it self, which was thereby signified: because he is that chief and high Prophet, Priest, and King, whom as types, the Prophets, Priests, and Kings of the Old Testament, which were wont to be anointed with external oil, did represent. The name therefore of the sign or type, that is, anointed, is transferred to the thing it self, even to the High Priest, Prophet, and King, Jesus. 2. That there is a great difference between this Jesus Anointed, and the Anointed of the Old Testament. 2For, §11. They were only certain types, and shadows of this only chief and true Christ, that is, of this King, Prophet, and Priest. Wherefore necessary was it, that they should yield and give place to him being once exhibited. For the thing it self being come and exhibited, the types cease. §22. The anointing, that is, the communicating of the gifts of the holy Ghost in the typical Anointed, was imperfect and weak. But in Jesus Christ it is perfect and exceeding great. For in him dwelleth the fullness of the Godhead personally, so that he is both the Anointed,