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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.
The Explication.
The death of the Cross is an exaggeration or aggravation of Christs punishment, and a confirmation of our faith. For if Christ be crucified,1 then, 1. He took the curse; for this death was a type of the curse. 2. He bare it for us, seeing in himself he was just. Now, for these causes would God have his Son to suffer the punishment of so ignominious a death: §11. That we might know the curse due for our sins to have lain upon him. For the death of the Cross was cursed of God: Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree. §22. That it might be an exasperating of the punishment, and so we much the more confirmed in a true faith, when we consider Christ, by this kind of punishment, to have taken upon him our guilt, and even our punishment also and curse, to free us from it. This Paul teacheth: Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the Law, when he was made a curse for us: for it is written, 2Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree. §33. To stir us up to greater thankfulness, considering how detestable a thing sin is, to wit, so great, that it could not be expiated and satisfied for, but with the most bitter and most opprobrious and shameful death of the only begotten Son of God. §4