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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 the true sense of this Article is, or what the descent of Christ into Hell signifieth.
Hell in Scripture is taken three ways: For it signifieth, §11. The Grave. 1Then ye shall bring my grey-head with sorrow unto hell. Thou wile not leave my soul in hell: neither wilt thou suffer thine holy One to see corruption. §22. The place of the damned: as in the story of the rich man and Lazarus. The Glutton being in hell in torments, 2lift up his eyes, and saw Abraham a far off, and Lazarus in his bosom. If I lye down in hell, thou art there. §33. The pains of hell, that is, the terrors and torments of the soul and conscience. The pains of hell gate hold upon me. 3The Lord bringeth down to hell, and raiseth up: that is, into exceeding pains and torments, out of which afterwards he again delivereth.4 In this third sense it is taken in this Article: For it cannot be understood in the first sense, of the Grave. 1. Because it is said before, He was buried. If any say,5 that this latter Article is an exposition of the former, he saith nothing: For as often as two speeches expressing the same thing are joined together, so that the one is an exposition of the other, it is meet that the latter be more clear and open than the former, which here is clean contrary. For. To descend into hell, is more obscure than to be buried. 2. It is not likely in this so brief and succinct a Confession, that the same things should be twice spoken in other words. Neither can this place be understood of the place of the damned;