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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.
Another type. Of the sons of God 1. One is Natural, to wit, the Word of the eternal Father. 2. All the rest are by grace of 1. Creation, as Angels, and Adam before his fall. 2. Conception by the holy Ghost, and union with the word, as Christ according to his humanity. 3. Adoption, as Adam after his fall, & all the elect regenerate.
Another type. Of the sons of God 1. One is Naturall, to wit, the Word of the eternall Father. 2. All the rest are by grace of 1. Creation, as Angels, and Adam before his fall. 2. Conception by the holy Ghost, and union with the word, as Christ according to his humanity. 3. Adoption, as Adam after his fall, & all the elect regenerate.
Out of this distinction of sons, the answer to this objection before proposed is more clear. Object. 1. He that hath brethren, is not the only begotten. Christ hath brethren: Therefore he is not the only begotten. Ans. The Major is to be distinguished. He that hath brethren, to wit, of the same generation and nature, he is not the only begotten. Christ hath brethren, but not of the same generation and nature: that is, not begotten of the substance of God the Father, but only adopted of God the Father through grace.1 Repl. How then are we the brethren of Christ? Ans. Our fraternity and brother-hood with Christ consisteth in these four things: §11. In the likeness and similitude of our humane nature: For he is true man, procreated of the blond of Adam, the common father of us all. §22. In his brotherly love towards us. §33. In our conformity and correspondence with Christ, which consisteth in perfect righteousness and blessedness. §44. In the consummation and accomplishment of his benefits. Object. 2. He that hath a generation or begetting unlike to the generation of other sons, is in respect thereof said to be the only begotten: Christ, according to his humanity, hath a generation unlike to the generation of other Sons of God because he alone was conceived of the holy Ghost, and borne of a Virgin: Therefore Christ is called the only begotten according to his humanity also, in respect of this temporal and miraculous generation of the Virgin, and not in respect of any eternal generation of his Father according to his Divinity. Ans. The Major is true of such a son, as hath a generation unlike in the whole kind; that is, both in nature, and in the manner of the generation. But Christ according to his humanity hath a generation divers from us,