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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.
Again, God sent not his Son into the world to condemn it: 1The Father sent the Son into the world, but the humanity of the Son was borne in the world: Therefore he was his Son before he was sent into the world.2 The Son quickeneth whom he will. No man knoweth the Father, but the Son, 3and he to whom the Son will reveal him. But in the old testament, before Jesus was borne of the Virgin, some were raised from the dead, and quickened: for there were some from the beginning of the world, who knew God aright: Therefore in Jesus, the Son of Mary, is another nature besides his flesh, which is the Son of God, and subsisted from the beginning of the world, revealing God unto men; not only to those of the godly who lived since he took flesh, but to those also who lived before it. Again, He is called the Son, who came from heaven, who being in earth, is in heaven; who came into the world, not as other men, from the earth, but from above,4 out of heaven, from the Father. So that then he was before he came into the world. But the flesh of Christ is not of heaven, neither came it from heaven: therefore there must needs be another nature in him, in respect whereof he is the only begotten Son of God, even before he took flesh of the Virgin. Again, He that was manifested in the flesh is God, and therefore another nature from the flesh: For God is one thing,5 who is manifested; and the flesh another thing, wherein he is manifested. The Son of God is he that was manifested in the flesh: For this purpose appeared the Son of God, that he might take away our sins, and that he might loose the works of the Devil: 6Therefore the Son of God, and another nature from the flesh; that is, the man Jesus is the Son of God, in respect not only of his humanity, but also of his divinity, ⟨p. 248⟩which besides and before the flesh, existed in him, and by the assumption of the flesh was made as it were visible and conspicuous: Wherefore it followeth also, and that necessarily, that that was a subsistent and a person: For that which is by nature a son, is also a person: But Christs divinity or nature, which was also before his flesh, is the Son of God by nature: Therefore it is a subsistent, and a person in the flesh taken or assumed, and before it.