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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
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1But here is cast in another difficulty, for that in controversies concerning the text, and the meaning thereof, such a Judge is required, whose authority and testimony may suffice for determining the meaning of the text. For when both parties, say they, who strive about the meaning, pleadeth each of them that his interpretation is true; except judgement be given of such a Judge, from whom it may not be lawful to make any appeal, the contention will never be decided, and we shall still remain doubtful of the sense of the Scripture, Furthermore, this judgment must needs belong to the Church: for in the Church alone we are to seek for an examining and determining of controversies concerning Religion. What the Church therefore doth pronounce in these matters, we must of necessity rest upon that, as the assured meaning of the Scripture. And hereof they say it is manifest, that the decrees of the Church are of no less authority then the express sentence ⟨p. 21⟩of Scripture. But we, as we willingly grant, that the eontroversies of the Church must be at length determined, 2and that according to the sentence of that Judge of whom we may be certainly assured, that we cannot be deceived: so we acknowledge this Judge to be not the Church, but the holy Ghost himself, speaking unto us in the Scripture, and declaring his own words. For he is the supreme Judge, whose judgment the Church only demandeth, declareth, and signifieth: he cannot be deceived, whereas all men are subject to the danger of error: in a word, he being the author of the Scripture, is the best and surest interpreter of his own words. And therefore the Scripture it self in all doubts recalleth us, and bindeth us unto it self:3 We have a most sure word of the Prophets, to which ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place: Search the Scriptures: To the Law and to the Testimony: If they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them: 4For although the holy Ghost speaketh also by the Church, yet because she doth not always speak the words of the holy Ghost, she cannot be the supreme and chief Judge of controversies in Religion: For this Judge must be such a one, whose sentence may by no means be called in question. But we have none such besides the word of God registered in the Scriptures.