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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.
Some think that Christ indeed descended not into hell either to suffer,3 or to deliver the Fathers thence, but to show there the Devil and death his victory, and to strike a terror into them. But that Christ descended for this cause, is no where found extant in Scripture. They object unto us first that place of Peter: By the which he also went and preached unto the Spirits that are in prison, which were in time passed disobedient. Answ. Peters meaning in this place is not as these men conjecture, but is on this wise: He saith, Christ went; that is, being sent from the beginning, of the Father, unto the Church: By his Spirit; that is, by his God-head: To the Spirits that are now in prison; that is, in hell: He preached in time passed, When as yet they lived, and were disobedient; namely, before the Flood: For then he preached to the disobedient▪ when they were disobedient: But they were disobedient in the time of Noah: Therefore Christ preached by Noah, and by the Fathers, inviting the disobedient to repentance. Farther, if Peter here spake of the descension into hell, yet this was not their opinion who pretend the broaching of it, but the Papists, who affirm and teach, that Christ preached in hell unto the Fathers, and delivered them.2 They bring another place of Peter: The Gospel was also preached unto the dead. Answ. That is, unto those which are now dead, or were then dead when Peter wrote this, and who then lived, when the Gospel was preached unto them. They wrest and misconstrue also a place of Paul:3 Christ descended into the lowest parts of the earth. Answ. Into the lowest parts of the earth, that is, into the earth, which is the lowest part of the world: For one part of the earth is not opposed unto another, but the earth is opposed unto heaven, and the humiliation of Christ is thereby signified. This interpretation is proved by the scope and drift of the Apostle, who maketh in that place an opposition of Christs great glory, and his great humiliation. So on the other side, Christ ascended into the highest paris of heaven; that is, into heaven▪ into the highest part of the world. These places therefore make nothing for the descension of Christ into hell: and were it so, that these places, alleged to establish this opinion, were to be understood of a local descension of Christ into hell;