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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.
For, seeing grace is opposed to nature, and we are sons by grace, it must needs be that Christ is the Son by nature.
1To the fourth Class belong those testimonies of Scripture, which attribute the name of Son of God manifestly to the other nature also in Christ, which subsisted by it self before and besides the flesh assumed, and did work all things. And, seeing Servetus and others are here in an uproar, as it were, and fight for this, that only the man Jesus, born of the Virgin, but not God, or the God-head, is called the Son in Scriptures, and that therefore before Jesus was born, there was not any Son of God subsisting; we are diligently to gather and collect those testimonies, wherein the name of Son is not attributed to the humane nature only, but also to the divine. The argument therefore is this: That which, subsisting before the flesh born of Mary, created the world, and from the first beginning hitherto worketh the same things with the Father, the same is a person, and that without the flesh, and before it: But the Son of God is called that which, subsisting before the flesh, created the world, and from the first beginning hitherto worketh the same things with the Father: Therefore the Son is a person, and subsisting even without the flesh, and before it: that is, Christ Jesus, born of Mary, hath another nature besides his humane nature, in respect whereof Christ, even before his humane nature was, truly existed, and is called the Son of God. The Major of this reason is manifest: For, that which worketh all works, and that with the same authority, liberty, and power, wherewith the Father doth, must needs be a living and understanding substance, that is, a person. Now the Minor is proved by testimonies of Scripture: For the very same, who is before all things, for whom, and by whom all things were created, and do consist, who doth all things likewise himself which the Father doth; is called the beloved Son of God, the first begotten of all creatures, 2by whom God spake unto us in the last days, &c. But the flesh or humanity of Christ is not before all things, is not Creatress, but created in the last times,