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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.
The Explication.
Thus far have we continued the Treatise of Christs humiliation: It remaineth that we proceed unto his glorification, for which he rose the third day from the dead: For the humiliation of the Mediator was not to endure for ever; but it was enough that he suffered once and died: notwithstanding the efficacy and power thereof, in preserving and maintaining the blessings issuing and flowing thence with full stream, endureth for ever. Now in Christs Resurrection two things are especially to be considered; the history, 1and the fruit thereof. In the history we are to observe, §12Who it was that rose from the dead; 3to wit, Christ, both God and man, in that body in which he died: For this the Word never put off. §24The manner of his rising: which was, that he, who was verily dead, revived from death, recalling his soul to his body, and gloriously came forth of his Sepulchre on the third day, according to the Scriptures; and that both by his Fathers, and his own force and power, I say, not the power of his flesh, but of his God-head: For he was raised of the Father by himself; because the Father worketh by the Son. §35The testimonies of his true resurrection. He showed himself openly to many women and Disciples; the Angels bare witness thereunto,