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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.
And that Word was God.) We interpret; That the Word is true God, eternal, Creator of heaven and earth: the same God with the Father, and therefore divers from him, as the Word from him that speaketh by him, and the Son from the Father, but having the same nature and essence of the God-head in him, which the Father hath: as Christ himself saith; I in the Father, and the Father in me. He is every where in the ⟨p. 249⟩Father: as the Father every where in him. But they say: that he is God, in respect of his gifts, worthiness, excellency, and office: but not by nature. Which they prove; because others also are in this sense and respect called gods, which have not any divinity of themselves: therefore Christ also after the same manner, seeing he also hath his divinity from the Father. Further, they add, that we make two gods, and deal contumeliously with the Father. Answ. We make not two gods, because the Son is one with the Father as God, that is, having the same essence in him which the Father hath: but is diverse and distinct from him as the Son, and having in him the same Deity which the Father hath, communicated. But they are blasphemous, and contumelious against the Father and the Son; Because they honour not the Son, 1as they honour the Father. Now that Saint John understandeth a Son, not a made, created and inferior God to the Father, and a diverse God from him, is proved and confirmed by many reasons, but some few shall now suffice. 1. Simply and absolutely without restraint to any certain circumstance, none is called God in the Scripture, besides the only true God, eternal creator of the world. 2. That the Word was God before things were created, and is the Creator of all things, S. John doth teach. 3. He showeth that he is the author and fountain of life and knowledge in men, even from the beginning: For this signifieth the true light, that is, which is properly, and by it self, light it self, and the original of light in others. 4. This Word giveth power to be the sons of God. 2This none can do but the true God alone. 5. We are to believe in his Name. But we must believe in none, but God only, as himself proveth, that therefore they must believe in him, because they believe in God. 6. John Baptist saith, that he baptiseth with the holy Ghost: And Christ himself often saith, that he will send the holy Ghost from the Father.