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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.
1For whereas unto men also it is granted, to be themselves the best interpreters of their own words: how much more ought this honour to be yielded unto the holy Scripture? wherefore, if controversies be moved concerning the meaning of some place in the Scripture, we ought much more to do that here, which we would do in other writings.§1 2To consider and respect the analogy of faith, that is, to receive no exposition which is against the ground of doctrine, that is, against any article of Faith, or commandment of the Decalogue, or against any plain testimony of Scripture: Even as Paul admonisheth, forbidding to build wood, hay,3 stubble, upon the foundation.§2 4To weigh the things that go before, and follow after that place which is in question, that so not only nothing contrary to these may be feigned on it, but also that they may be set for the meaning of it, which these require: For, these either not being observed, or being dissembled, the meaning of the Scripture is not seldom depraved. So those words of the Psalm,5 He shall give his Angels charge over thee, that they shall bear thee in their hands, that thou hurt not thy foot against a stone: the Devil, tempting Christ, interpreteth them, as if they served to maintain over-rash and curious attempts; when yet that which is added (In all thy ways) doth show, that they are to be understood of men doing those things that are proper unto their calling. §36To search every where in the Scripture, whether there be extant any place, where it stands for confessed, or is manifest, or may be showed, that the same doctrine in other words is delivered touching the same matter, which is contained in that place which is in controversy: For if the meaning of the clearer and undoubted place be manifested unto us, we shall also be assured of the place which is doubted of, because in both places the same is taught: As when it is said,