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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.
What then doth Christs conception of the holy Ghost signify and import? Three things thereby are signified:§1 1That the mass of his humane nature was created, or formed in the womb of the Virgin miraculously, and besides the order of things disposed of God in nature, by the immediate working and operation of the holy Ghost, without the seed and substance of man. The power of the most High shall over-shadow thee. Object. But we are also made of God. Answ. We are made of God mediately, Christ immediately. §22That the holy Ghost did the same moment, and by the same operation, cleanse this mass, and, from the very point of the conception, sanctify it in the mothers womb: that is, (sith it became not the Word, 3the Son of God, to assume unto himself a nature polluted with sin) he therefore caused, that original sin should not issue into it: and that for these causes; §11. That he might be a pure sacrifice, and a sufficient ransom for our redemption. He hath made him to be sin for us which knew no sin, 4that we should be made the righteousness of God in him. §22. That he might also sanctify us by his sanctity and holiness: For if Christ had been a sinner, he could not have satisfied for us, but himself should have remained in death: Therefore could he not have been our sanctifier, neither by merit, nor by his power and efficacy:5 For he that sanctifieth, and they that are sanctified, are all of one. Such an High Priest it became us to have, which is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners. §33. It was not agreeable unto the Word, the eternal Son of God, to unite personally unto him humane nature, being stained and defiled, wherein he dwelleth as in his own Temple: For, God is a consuming fire. §4