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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.
To the seventh Class belong those Scriptures, which speak of the office of the Mediator. The argument is this: The Mediator, 1without whose merit and present efficacy, there could be no friendship or amity joined between God and sinful men, 2must needs have been always in the Church from the very beginning of the world. This proposition those things confirm, which have been before spoken of the Mediator and his office. But the Son of God only (not the Father nor the holy Ghost) is that Mediator, by and for whom the faithful also of the old Church were reconciled unto God: Therefore the Son of God was subsisting from the very beginning of the world. The old Church might have been received into favour for Christ to come: but by him it could not, except he was then being: for there can be no efficacy or force of him that is not. Whence it is necessarily proved, that Christ was before his incarnation: for there cannot be friendship between God and men without a Mediator now existing or being. But in the old Testament there was friendship between God and men, that is, Believers: Therefore either he or some other was Mediator of that Church: there was no other but he only,3 because there is but one Mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus. But that there cannot be any amity between God and men, without a Mediator now already being, shall also appear by that which followeth: For, it is the office and function of the Mediator, not only by deprecation, or entreaty, or sacrifice, to appease and pacify the Father, but also to confer and ⟨p. 256⟩bestow all the benefits which he obtaineth by his power and efficacy upon believers, to make the will of God known to men, to institute a ministry, to collect, gather,4 and preserve the Church, and that wholly. No man hath known the Father, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him: Therefore neither did Adam know God but by the Son, and by a consequent the Son existed at that time. Hitherto are referred the testimonies, not only which speak of Christs merit to come,