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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.
1. Whether there be two natures in Christ our Mediator.
1. Whether there be two natures in Christ our Mediatour.
1That there are two natures in Christ, this one reason shows by good demonstrance: Essential properties which are opposite, cannot be in the same, nor be affirmed of the same thing in respect of the same nature or cause. Vigil.2 One nature doth not receive in it self a thing contrary and diverse. But in one and the same Christ are, and are affirmed of him properties diverse and contrary, divine and humane, finite, infinite, passible, impassible, and such like: Therefore there must needs be divers natures in him, humane and divine. And that the very divine nature, Creatress of all things, is in Christ, hath been already proved. It remaineth that we show, a true humane nature to be in him, and that such as ours is, and perfect, consisting of a body, and a reasonable soul, of which, 3as of essential parts, is made a third substance, to wit, this particular humanity, which the Word, having taken once into the unity of the person, doth never lay away again. Which we are to hold against Heretics both old and new, Marcionites and Schwenkfeldians; whereof some deny Christs flesh to have been formed of the Virgins substance, but will have it brought down from heaven into the Virgin, or begotten in her, of the substance of the holy Ghost. Others fancy Christ to have, instead of true flesh, the likeness, semblance, and apparency of a mans body. Others acknowledge indeed, that he hath a true body, but not an humane soul, the room whereof is supplied by the Word united unto the body.