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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
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2. Whether it was requisite and necessary that Christ should die.
IT was requisite and necessary that Christ, to make full satisfaction, not only should suffer, but also should die: §11. In respect of the justice of God, that so his justice might be satisfied, which required the death of men, by whom it was violated: For the hurting and offending of the greatest good, is to be expiated with the greatest punishment, or with the utmost destruction of nature; that is, with the death of the guilty condemned for sin, according to that, The wages of sin is death. 1But Christ succeeded in our stead, and took on him our person, who had sinned, and had deserved death, not only eternal, but temporal also: For we deserved destruction, which is the dissolution of the soul from the body, whereon ensueth the dissolution of the body, as a house is said to be subverted and destroyed, when one part is separated from another. Now it was requisite that the Son of God should die, that he might be a sufficient ransom for our sins: For no creature could have sustained such a punishment, as should have been equivalent to eternal punishment, and yet withal should have been temporal. Object. They have deserved eternal punishment, whosoever are not reconciled to God by Christ; therefore the souls ought not to be separated from their bodies, that they might suffer eternal damnation. Ans. It doth not follow; but this rather, That therefore both body and soul must be together, that they may suffer it, which at length shall so come to pass: Therefore it was necessary that Christ should die for us, and his soul be separated from his body. §22. In respect of Gods truth, that the truth of God may be satisfied: For God threatened and denounced death, when ever we sinned: which denouncing was to be fulfilled after sin was once committed: And this is that commination or threatening pronounced by God himself, In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt die the death. Obj. But Adam did not presently die. Ans. Truly, he forth-with died not a bodily death,