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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.
Object. 2. Christ, man, is, and is called God in the New Testament: Therefore they corrupt the Scripture, who say, that in this visible man Jesus, is, besides the flesh, an invisible nature, which was existing also in the old peoples time without flesh: For to say this, is as if a man, instead of this, Thou art a Scholar, should say, In thee is a Scholar. Answ. That Christ, man, is true and by nature God, in respect of the nature or essence of the God-head in him personally united to his man-hood,1 is no corruption, but the very voice, mind meaning, and interpretation of the Scripture. In him, that is, in Christ Jesus; dwelleth all the fullness of the God head, that is,2 the very full and perfect God-head, which is but one; bodily, that is, personally or substantially, so that it is of the substance of the visible man Christ. In Christ therefore there is one thing which dwelleth, namely the God-head; another thing in which it dwelleth, even the Man-hood, which is the temple of the God head, and was shadowed and figured by the Mosaical tabernacle. Christ saith of himself, Destroy this temple: 3and the Author of the Epistle to the Hebrews mentioneth the Tabernacle of the humane nature; and calleth the flesh a veil, to wit, of the God-head: He suffered in the flesh. The Word was made flesh and came unto his own: 4Therefore there must be in the flesh another nature. Again, Made of the seed of David according to the flesh: 5and declared mightily to be the Son of God, touching the spirit of Sanctification. Again, Being in the form of God, and equal with God, he took on him the form of a servant. 6By him all things were made and do consist, both visible and invisible: he giveth the holy Ghost, lighteneth every man that cometh into the world: he alone knoweth the Father, and he to whom he revealeth him, &c. Lastly, that there is a double nature or substance in Christ, both a finite, and an infinite, is convinced and proved by the diversity and repugnancy of those properties which are attributed to the same Christ,