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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. Whose operations are distinct, their essences also must needs be distinct. The eternal operations of the Father, the Son, and the holy Ghost are distinct: Therefore they have also distinct essences. Answ. The Major of this reason is true of persons having a finite essence: but being understood of the divine person, it is false, if it be meant of those internal operations, whereof the Minor speaketh. Wherefore, inverting the Major, we return it back upon the adversaries themselves: Whereas the internal operations, namely the generation of the Son, and the proceeding of the holy Ghost, are the communicating of the Fathers essence whole and the same in number; it must needs be, that there is not a diverse or distinct, but one divine essence of all three persons.
2. Whose operations are distinct, their essences also must needs be distinct. The eternall operations of the Father, the Sonne, and the holy Ghost are distinct: Therefore they have also distinct essences. Answ. The Major of this reason is true of persons having a fi•ite essence: but being understood of the divine person, it is false, if it be meant of those internall operations, whereof the Minor speaketh. Wherefore, inverting the Major, wee returne it backe upon the adversaries themselves: Whereas the internall operations, namely the generation of the Son, and the proceeding of the holy Ghost, are the communicating of the Fathers essence whole and the same in number; it must needs be, that there is not a diverse or distinct, but one divine essence of all three persons.
3. That which hath a beginning, is not eternal: but the Son and the holy Ghost have their beginning, or original from the Father: Therefore they are not eternal. Answ. That is not eternal, which hath a beginning of essence, or nature, and time: But the Son and the holy Ghost have a beginning or original of person or order, or of the manner of existing, but not of essence: For this they have one and the same in number with the Father from everlasting; and that is void of all beginning and original, and existeth necessarily, from no other but of it self. His goings forth have bin from the beginning, and from everlasting. Now glorify me, thou Father,