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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.
2. How Christ rose.
The manner of Christs Resurrection is declared by these circumstances following: §11. Christ did rise truly and indeed, so that his soul did truly and indeed return unto his body, from which it was severed by death,1 and he did truly come forth even out of the grave also, in despite of the Watch-men, they being withal amazed and stricken therewith. §22. He rose the same person which he died: the same Jesus Christ, God and Man, according to the nature, wherein he suffered, namely,2 according to his humane nature, even the true humane nature, and the same in essence and properties, and that not deified, but glorified, all infirmities thereof being done away. Behold my hands and my feet: for it is I my self, handle me, and see me; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have. And truly, nothing else could rise again,3 but that which had fallen. The same body therefore which fell, did rise again: which is the greatest comfort unto us: For he must have been one and the same Mediator, who should merit for us a communicating and participation of those benefits which we had lost by sin, and who should restore the same unto us, and apply them to every one. Again, except Christ flesh had risen, neither should ours rise. §33. He rose by his own power; that is, he put death to flight, and shook it from himself, quickened his dead body, re-united it to his soul,