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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
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.
1Fifthly, we are to consider the degrees of them who teach in the Church: For therefore is the authority of the Prophets and Apostles far higher then of other Ministers of the Church, because God called them immediately to declare his will unto other men, and adorned them with testimonies of miracles, and other things, by which he witnessed, that he did so lighten and guide their minds with his Spirit, that he suffered them to err in no one point of doctrine: our Ministers are called by men, and may err, and do err, when they depart from the doctrine of the Prophets and Apostles. Wherefore the Apostle Paul saith,2 That the Church is builded upon the foundation of the Prophets and Apostles. And, That he had laid the foundation, and other then that could no man lay: others build upon it gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble. Now it is manifest that they who may err, ought to be tied unto their doctrine who are warranted by the testimonies of God that they cannot err. Wherefore all other teachers in the Church must not bring any new point of doctrine, but only propound and expound those things unto the Church, which are delivered by the Prophets and Apostles.3 For these causes therefore doth the whole ancient Church with great consent submit it self unto the rule of the sacred Scriptures, whose authority yet ought of right to be greater then these mens, who both in words and deeds fight against this opinion.4 Basil saith, That it is a falling from the faith, and a fault of pride, either not to admit those things which are written in the holy Scriptures, or to add any thing unto them. 5And Augustine, For neither ought we to account of every ones discourses (though they be catholic and worthy men) as of the Canonical Scriptures, that it may not be lawful for us, without impairing the reverence, which we owe to those men, to dislike and refuse any thing in their writings, if peradventure we shall find that they have thought otherwise then the Scripture hath, as it is by Gods assistance understood either of others, 6