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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.
Adopted sons are they, who begin not at the same time to be, and to be sons: but sometimes were, when yet they were not adopted, or sometimes were not sons, or had their being ere they were such sons, and were made sons only by the law and will of the Adopter, who endoweth them with the right and title of sons, so that with him they are in the same place, as if they had bin born of him. After this sort, that is, by adoption, Adam after his fall, and all the elect regenerate are the sons of God; being adopted for the natural Sons sake, Christ Jesus. But before they were adopted, they were the sons of wrath.
Adopted sons are they, who begin not at the same time to be, and to be sons: but sometimes were, when yet they were not adopted, or sometimes were not sons, or had their being ere they were such sons, and were made sons only by the law and will of the Adopter, who endoweth them with the right and title of sons, so that with him they are in the same place, as if they had bin born of him. After this sort, that is, by adoption, Adam after his fall, and all the elect regenerate are the sons of God; being adopted for the naturall Sons sake, Christ Jesus. But before they were adopted, they were the sons of wrath.
1Out of this distinction of sons, it is clear both how we are the sons of God, namely, by adoption; and how Christ is the only begotten Son of God, to wit, two ways: §11. According to his Divinity, because, as touching this nature, he alone was from everlasting begotten of the substance of his Father: We have seen his glory, 2as the glory of the only begotten Son of the Father. §22. According to his humanity in some sort, (though unproperly) because even according to this also he was born after such a manner, as never was any other besides him, to wit, of an unspotted Virgin, by the power and virtue of the holy Ghost. Christ is farther called the first begotten,