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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.
Hitherto belongeth also that, Father, 1into thine hands I commend my spirit. And when he had thus said, he gave up the ghost. This cannot be said of Christs God-head: For, that being immense and infinite, is every where; neither doth a removing from one place to another agree unto it: it is not laid down, and taken up again; that is, it never departed, or was severed from the body, but remaineth always united unto it. Wherefore, there must needs be in Christ, besides his body and his God-head, a true humane soul, which did truly suffer and abide in Christ these changes, and the like.
Hitherto belongeth also that, Father, 1into thine hands I commend my spirit. And when he had thus said, he gave up the ghost. This cannot be said of Christs God-head: For, that being immense and infinite, is every where; neither doth a removing from one place to another agree unto it: it is not laid downe, and taken up againe; that is, it never departed, or was severed from the body, but remaineth alwayes united unto it. Wherefore, there must needs be in Christ, besides his body and his God-head, a true humane soule, which did truly suffer and abide in Christ these changes, and the like.
1It is confirmed by divine promises and prophecies. For the Messiah in the Old Testament was promised to be such a one, as should be the seed of the woman, of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, &c. But this Jesus, the Son of the Virgin Mary, is that promised Messiah: Therefore he must needs be the true man, issuing of the blood and posterity of the Woman and the Fathers, and therefore to have been indeed begotten of the substance of Mary, and to have taken true flesh.