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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.
All sons are either born sons, or adopted sons.
1Sons that are borne sons, are they who begin at one and the same time both to be, and to be sons; and these are either sons borne of Parents; or sons borne by grace. Sons borne of Parents, are properly called natural sons; to whom the essence and nature of their Parents is communicated; and that either in part, or wholly. In part the essence and nature of the Parents of whom we are borne is communicated unto us men. Wholly the divine essence is communicated of the Father unto Christ, as touching his God-head. As then we are the natural sons of our Parents: so Christ according to his divine nature is the natural and only Son of God, of the same essence and nature with the Father, of whose substance he was, after a manner altogether ineffable,2 begotten from everlasting. As the Father hath life in himself: so likewise hath he given to the Son to have life in himself. The eternal Father therefore hath communicated unto his Son the life whereby both himself by himself liveth, and whereby he quickeneth all creatures; which life is that one and eternal Deity, creatress and defendresse of all things. Sons by grace, are they who at one and the same time began to be, and to be sons of God: but, that they are sons, this they have either by grace of Creation, or by grace of Conception by the holy Ghost, and of the Union with the Word. The sons of God by grace of Creation, are Angels, and Adam before the fall; because God created them, that he might account them for his sons, and they again acknowledge and magnify him as their bountiful and benign Father. These indeed are unproperly called sons borne by grace: but yet such they are, in as much as they began both to be, and to be sons. The Son of God by grace of conception by the holy Ghost, and of union with the Word, is Jesus Christ only, according to his humane nature: because as ⟨p. 239⟩touching this he was the Son of God by grace, even presently from that very moment, when he began to be born man: and that therefore, because, by the virtue of the holy Ghost, he alone was born of the substance of the Virgin, pure from all stain or corruption, and so was personally united with the Word.