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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.
3. What Christs Priest-hood is.
A Priest, in general, is a person ordained by God to offer for himself and others, oblations and sacrifices: to pray for others, and to instruct. 1Under prayer is comprehended blessing, which is to wish them good from God. There is one Priest which is signifying or typical, another signified. 2The typical Priest was a person appointed by God, 1. To offer typical sacrifices. 2. To make intercession for himself and others. 3. To declare to the people the doctrine of the Law, and the promise of the Messiah, and true sacrifice which was to come. Such were all the Priests of the Old Testament; of whom one was the High-Priest the rest inferior Priests▪ and these three properties which we have reckoned, were common to the High-Priest with the other inferior Priests. But some things the High-Priest had proper and peculiar to himself: 1. That he alone entered into the Tabernacle, called the Holiest of all, 3or Sanctuary, and that but once every year, not without blond, which he offered for himself and the people, burning incense there, and making intercession for the people. 2. That his raiment was more gorgeous. 3, That he was set over the rest. 4. That he only was consulted of questions or matters doubtful, weighty, and obscure, whether appertaining to Religion, or to the Common wealth, and did return the answers of God for the Princes and the people. 5. And therefore did govern and order some counsels and offices of the State and Kingdom, and did see that all things were lawfully administered. The inferiors were all the other Priests of the Old Testament: whose office it was, To sacrifice, to pray, to teach the doctrine of the Law, and the promise of the Messiah to come, and to make intercession for themselves and others: ⟨p. 232⟩