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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.
2. They reason out of natural principles or grounds: which are such as are true in things created and finite, but false in God, who is an essence infinite: as, Three cannot be one: Three persons really distinct, cannot be one essence: An infinite person cannot beget an infinite person. That which begetteth, and that which is begotten, are not one and the same essence. Likewise, He that communicateth his whole essence to another, doth not himself remain the same which he was. To this we answer by another Rule:1 Those principles which are true of a finite nature, are foolishly and impiously translated to the infinite essence of God. And arguments of this sort are refuted not by a simple denial of them, but by distinguishing between natures capable and uncapable of those principles whereon they ground.
2. They reason out of naturall principles or grounds: which are such as are true in things created and finite, but false in God, who is an essence infinite: as, Three cannot be one: Three persons really distinct, cannot be one essence: An infinite person cannot beget an infinite person. That which begetteth, and that which is begotten, are not one and the same essence. Likewise, He that communicateth his whole essence to another, doth not himselfe remaine the same which he was. To this we answer by another Rule:1 Those principles which are true of a finite nature, are foolishly and impiously translated to the infinite essence of God. And arguments of this sort are refuted not by a simple deniall of them, but by distinguishing between natures capable and uncapable of those principles whereon they ground.
- 12. Rule.
3. Of the properties of the humane nature in Christ, they infer the inequality and diversity of his God-head. As, Christ suffered, died, &c. Therefore he is not God. The Rule whereby we answer to this,