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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.
To be the members of Christ, is nothing else, than to be conjoined and united to Christ, by the same spirit dwelling both in him and us and by this spirit to be enriched with such righteousness and life, as is in Christ; to be conformed unto Christ: and seeing this righteousness, so long as we remain in this mortal body, is imperfect, to be acceptable unto God for the righteousness of Christ, which is imputed unto us. Of this our communion with Christ these sayings make mention; We being many, are one body in Christ. 1Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? He that is joined unto the Lord, is one spirit. In all things grow up into him which is the head, that is, 2Christ. Now the similitude of the head and members of the same body, is most fit and appliable to declare that most straight and indissoluble conjunction of us with Christ. For, §11. As all the members of the body are knit to one and the same head, and consequently to one another, by sinews and fleshly ligaments: And as in the head are engendered all vital spirits, who are the next or ready instruments of sense and motion; as also all the outward and inward senses are seated in the head, and thence only from them the whole body, and each member thereof doth draw life; not from one another, I say, but from the head only, so long as they remain united to their head, and among themselves: so Christ is that one & quickening head, from whom his spirit is dispersed into all the members, and not from one member into another; and by whom all the elect, who are the living ⟨p. 235⟩members of the Church, being united by the holy Ghost received through faith, are quickened, and are knit also among themselves, by the means of mutual charity. Which charity and dilection must needs be there, if we be joined unto the head. For the connection of the members with the head, is the original and cause of the conjunction of the members among themselves. For the quickening spirit of Christ doth not flow out of one member into another, but out of one Christ, as the head, into all the members of the Church. I will send unto you from the Father, 3the Comforter, the Spirit of truth.