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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.
1The office of the Mediator confirmeth the same. The sin of men, in respect of Gods truth and justice, could not be punished in any other nature, than in a humane nature, which should be of the same kind with ours. But in the Mediator, which is Jesus Christ alone, our sins were to be punished: Therefore he must needs be true man who hath humane flesh, not created of nothing, or borne else-whence, but sprung from the blood of Adam, as well as ours. Moreover, it was necessary for Christ, not only to take, but also to retain our nature for ever: because God hath decreed to bestow, and doth bestow the benefits, which Christ by his death hath purchased for us, by this man Christ, upon them only who are, and remain engrafted into his mass and flesh, as members into their head, or branches into their Vine.2 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and withereth. Lastly, It behooved Christ to be made, and to continue our brother for ever; that as he is flesh of our flesh, so we also of the other side might be flesh and bones of his flesh and bones, by the same spirit dwelling in us.3 We are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. Wherefore, except Christ had indeed taken our nature, without which he cannot be our brother, we should lose that comfort ever needful and necessary for us, which consisteth in the brotherhood only of Christ with us: I am of his flesh, and of his bones.
1The office of the Mediatour confirmeth the same. The sinne of men, in respect of Gods truth and justice, could not be punished in any other nature, than in a humane nature, which should be of the same kind with ours. But in the Mediatour, which is Jesus Christ alone, our sinnes were to be punished: Therefore he must needs be true man who hath humane flesh, not created of nothing, or borne else-whence, but sprung from the bloud of Adam, as well as ours. Moreover, it was necessary for Christ, not onely to take, but also to retaine our nature for ever: because God hath decreed to bestow, and doth bestow the benefits, which Christ by his death hath purchased for us, by this man Christ, upon them onely who are, and remaine ingraffed into his masse and flesh, as members into their head, or branches into their Vine.