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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. For what cause, and how many ways he is our Lord.
2. For what cause, and how many waies he is our Lord.
Christ is Lord, 1By right of creation and government. Of this rule and dominion it is said, All things that the Father hath are mine: For by him, and in him, are all things created, and by his mighty word; that is, by his forcible pleasure and will, or providence, they are sustained and governed, and whatsoever good is in all the creatures, that wholly proceedeth from him. And this is a most general dominion, which extendeth it self unto all creatures, even unto Devils and wicked men, albeit not altogether after the same manner to us, and to all the wicked and devils: For, 1. He created us to eternal life: but them to destruction. 2. The dominion which Christ hath over the wicked and Devils, consisteth in the right of requiring and commanding, of exercising his power, and bridling his enemies: that is, he hath right and power over the Devils and the wicked, to do with them what him listeth, so that without his will and pleasure they cannot so much as move themselves; and if it were his will, to bring them to naught, as the history of the possessed man in the Gospel testifieth: ⟨p. 269⟩And he permitteth them,2 by bereaving and destituting them of the grace of his Spirit, to run head-long into sin and eternal destruction. He hath also over us right and power to do with us what him listeth: but he furthermore keepeth and guardeth us as his own flock and proper people, whom he hath purchased with his blood: he governeth us also, and guideth us by his Spirit: he worketh in our hearts faith and obedience, that we may do things acceptable unto him, and so fenceth us against all the remptations of the Devil, and the flesh, that we may never fall from him: Therefore he is our Lord after a far other sort, than of the Devils and the reprobates.