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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. How Christ is said to have been dead.
1IT is needful to move this question, because of the Heretics who have depraved the sense of this Article. Marcion denied that he dyed indeed: as also he affirmed the whole ordinary dispensation and ministry of the humane nature in Christ, and all those things which he did undergo for us, to have been but imaginary, and that he only seemed to be as a man, but was not a man. Nestorius separated the two natures in Christ;2 neither would have the Son of God, but man only to have died. Do not boast thou Jew (saith Nestorius) thou hast not crucified God, but man. The Ubiquitaries believe that the humanity of Christ, 3from the moment of his incarnation, was so endowed with all the properties of the God-head, as that only in this the humanity differeth from the God-head, that the humanity hath by an accident, whatsoever the God-head hath by, and of it self. Hereof it cometh, that they imagine that Christ was in the time of his death, yea when he was enclosed in the Virgins womb, in heaven, and every where, not only as touching his God-head, but with his body too. This is it which they call the form of God.4
1IT is needfull to move this question, because of the Heretiks who have depraved the sense of this Article. Marcion denied that he dyed indeed: as also he affirmed the whole ordinary dispensation and ministery of the humane nature in Christ, and all those things which he did undergo for us, to have been but imaginary, and that he onely seemed to be as a man, but was not a man. Nestorius separated the two natures in Christ;2 neither would have the Sonne of God, but man onely to have died. Doe not boast thou Jew (saith Nestorius) thou hast not crucified God, but man. The Ubiquitaries beleeve that the humanity of Christ,