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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 eight Class are those places referred,1 in which both the name and property of Jehovah are attributed unto the Angel, who appeared in the Old Testament unto the Fathers, and was the leader of the people: whom to have been the Son of God, Christ, both the Church hath always confessed, and the Scripture doth witness it. The Prophet Malachi hath a notable testimony: Behold I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall speedily come to his temple: even the messenger of the Covenant, whom ye desire. This speaketh Christ himself by the Prophet, which is also confirmed by this argument? Whose way is prepared, he is Christ; but he that promiseth, is he whose way is prepared: Therefore he that promiseth is Christ. The Major is manifest: for not the Father, but Christ was looked for, and he followed John Baptist. The Minor is proved out of the text it self: Behold I send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me. Wherefore Christ was before he took flesh, because he sent his messenger, and was also before he took flesh, very God. For he calleth flesh his temple, to which he saith he will come.2 But none hath a temple builded in worship of him, but God: Therefore it is blasphemous to say, that Christ was not before he took flesh. Neither doth that hinder, because he speaketh in the third person; The Lord will come to his people. For he sufficiently showeth who that Lord is, namely, not the Father, but the Son. I the Lord who sent John before me, and who am the messenger of the Covenant. And further, it may be that the Prophet doth not continue in making Christ speak, but representeth the Father himself, speaking of sending the Son: Unto the Son he saith, O God, thy throne is for ever and ever. Christ Jesus is the Apostle and High Priest, 3the builder, heir, and Lord of his Church. Jesus Christ yesterday, and to day, and the same is also for ever. The argument therefore is this: The Messenger, or the Angel sent of old unto the Church was a subsistent, or person. That Messenger is the Son of God, Christ: Therefore the Son of God was, before Jesus was borne of the Virgin, truly existing, did work, and was ruler over his Church. The Minor is proved, 1.