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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.
John purposing to write the Gospel of Christ, in the first entrance proposeth the sum of that doctrine, which he purposed to deliver and confirm out of the story and sermons of Christ.1 And seeing the knowledge of Christ consisteth in his person and office, he describeth both; and showeth, that Christ is the eternal Son and Word of God the Father, who, taking flesh, was made man, that he might be made a sacrifice for our sins, and might make us, through faith in him, the Sons of God, and Heirs of eternal life. This Word then, whom afterwards he calleth the only begotten Son of the Father, he saith now, to have been in the beginning: which showeth his eternity.2 These words of the holy Evangelist they corrupt and deprave, who raise again Samosatenus his blasphemies from the pit of hell, expounding this beginning of the beginning of the Gospels preaching, done by Christ. But contrary, Saint John and the Church, even from the Apostles and their Scholars time, do understand that beginning of the world, wherein Moses recounteth all things to have bin first created by God: 3For John saith, that the world was made by him: and further, that even then in the beginning he was God, and that the true God Creator, which is only one, and was in the beginning of the world. Repl. 1. Beginning doth not signify eternity: Therefore ye deprave it, who so expound it. Answ. We do not so expound it, but that even then in the beginning of the world was the Word; and therefore was before the Creation of the world: and whatsoever was before this, was from everlasting: and so is the Scripture wont to speak; as Eph. 1.4. 1 Pet. 1.20. Pro. 8.22, 23. &c. where we may see a large place concerning wisdom: whose ⟨p. 249⟩eternity is there signified in this, that it is said to have been before the creation of the world. Repl. 2. Beginning often signifieth the beginning of the Gospels preaching. Ye were with me from the beginning. I said not to you from the beginning. Ans. This showeth that sometimes it so signifieth, but not always. And we are still to construe it of that beginning which the text showeth; As also in other places: I am α and ω,