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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
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.
The Explication.
1TWO benefits we reap from Christs conception and nativity. §12A confirmation of our faith, that he is the true Mediator. §23A consolation, that we through this Mediator are justified before God. The reason hereof is: because he cannot be a Mediator between God and men, who is not himself man, who is not righteous, who is not united with the Word, that is, who is not by nature true God and true man, and of sufficiency and ability to bestow on us his salvation purchased for us. For such an High Priest it ⟨p. 273⟩became us to have, which is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens. What is the meaning then of this Article, I believe in Jesus Christ, 4which was conceived by the holy Ghost, borne of the Virgin Mary? 5The meaning thereof is, 1. I believe that this natural Son of God, conceived and born after this manner, was made true man after a marvellous order, and the same to be one Christ, having two natures united by personal union, one to another, which are his divinity and his humanity, and to be sanctified from his mothers womb, by the holy Ghost. 2. I believe farther, that he, being true God and true man, but one Christ, was holy from his mothers womb, to redeem and sanctify me, (which he could not do, unless sanctification and union were in him) and that I, for his Sons sake so conceived and borne, have the right of the adoption of the sons of God.