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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.
1. What is meant by the name of Passion, or what Christ suffered.
BY the name of Passion is understood the whole humiliation, or the obedience of Christs whole humiliation, all the miseries, infirmities, torments, ignominies, pains, and griefs, unto all which Christ for our sakes was subject and obnoxious, as well in soul, as in body, from the point of his nativity, until the hour of his death and resurrection. For the chief part of his pains and dolours, were the torments in his soul, wherein he felt the ire and wrath of God against the sin of mankind. But principally by the name Passion is signified the last part of his humiliation, even the last act of his life,1 wherein he suffered extreme torments of soul and body for our fins. My soul is very heavy, even unto the death. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Surely he hath carried our sorrows. The Lord hath laid upon him the iniquities of us all. The Lord would break him, and make him subject to infirmities. What then did Christ suffer? He suffered, §11. A privation and want of incomparable happiness, joy and all other heavenly blessings, which he should have enjoyed. §22. All the infirmities of mans nature, sin only excepted: he hungered, thirsted,2 was weary, was stricken with sadness and grief, &c. §33. Extreme need and poverty: The son of man hath not whereon to lay his head. §44. For infinite injuries, contumelies, slanders, layings in wait for him, back-bitings, reproaches, blasphemies, annihilating,