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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.
Lastly, whereas Paul saith, That he is the Minister of the New Testament, 1not of the Letter, but of the Spirit; for the Letter doth kill, the Spirit doth quicken; some men do thence gather, That we are to hear, not what the written word of God soundeth, but what the Spirit speaketh by the Church in our hearts. Yea, there hath grown an opinion heretofore, That the Grammatical and Literal meaning of the Scripture is pernicious, except all be transformed into allegories. But a manifold Paralogism in this argument doth easily appear,2 if it be considered what the Letter and the Spirit signifieth in Paul; for that all the doctrine and knowledge touching God, as also the outward observation of the Law in those that are not regenerate, is called the Letter by the Apostle: and the Spirit signifieth, 1. The holy Ghost himself: 32. The true doctrine concerning God, when the holy Ghost is of force and efficacy by it: 3. Faith and conversion, and motions pleasing God, being kindled of the holy Ghost through the Word; as it appears by the words going before: For, for that which here he saith,4 That he was made of God a Minister, not of the Letter, but of the Spirit; he said before, That the Epistle of Christ was ministered by him, and written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, in tables of the heart, that is, that his preaching was not in vain, but of force and efficacy in the hearts of men, the holy Ghost working by it. And in like manner he calleth the ceremony without conversion, Circumcision in the Letter: 5but conversion it self, Circumcision of the heart in the Spirit: Walk in newness of Spirit, 6and not in the oldness of the Letter; that is, in true holiness: such as is begun by the Spirit in the regenerate; not in the sin and hypocrisy of them, who know verily the will of God, and make practice also of outward discipline and behaviour, but remain without faith and conversion.