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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
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The principal arguments against the Divinity of the Son and the holy Ghost, together with the answers unto them.
The principall arguments against the Divinity of the Son and the holy Ghost, together with the answers unto them.
1. One essence is not three persons: for, one to be three, doth imply a contradiction. God is one essence: Therefore there cannot be three persons of the God head. Ans. The Major is true of an essence created and finite: that cannot, being one, be the same and whole substance of three, or be three: but it is false of the infinite, most simple, and individual essence of the God-head: For this, as it existeth one and whole together in many, nay, in infinite places and things; so may it be, remaining one, the same and whole essence of moe: yea, and moreover it is necessary so to be; seeing the generation of the Son, and the proceeding of the holy Ghost, is the communicating of the essence of the Father.
1. ONe essence is not three persons: for, one to be three, doth imply a contradiction. God is one essence: Therefore there cannot be three persons of the God head. Ans. The Major is true of an essence created and finite: that cannot, being one, be the same and whole substance of three, or be three: but it is false of the infinite, most simple, and individuall essence of the God-head: For this, as it existeth one and whole together in many, nay, in infinite places and things; so may it be, remaining one, the same and whole essence of moe: yea, and moreover it is necessary so to be; seeing the generation of the Son, and the proceeding of the holy Ghost, is the communicating of the essence of the Father.