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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.
Neither ought it to seem any marvel, that Christ doth bestow the same benefits ⟨p. 309⟩on us, which he obtained of the God-head, by his death for us. For a man may both obtain a thing of one for another, and also bestow the same on him for whom he obtained it: As, be it that one maketh request for thee unto a Prince for a gift of a thousand crowns: the Prince doth this for his sake that requested it, and bestoweth also that gift on him that he may bestow it on thee: he then shall obtain this gift for thee of the Prince, and withal shall bestow the same on thee. Now, albeit Christ could have bestowed the benefit of his death upon us by his God-head, by the means whereof we are justified and regenerated, and begin faith, and new life by the holy Ghost: yet notwithstanding, as God decreed, by man to raise the dead (for by man came the resurrection) and by man to judge the world;1 so also hath he decreed to bestow these gifts by Jesus-Man, that the same might be and continue Mediator, who is true God and Man. Therefore also it was requisite, that Christ should remain for ever our brother, and our head; and that we of the other side, being engrafted into him by a true faith, should always remain his members.2 Abide in me, and I in you. For in the seed of David is grounded our salvation. My servant David shall feed them for ever. Now, he had not continued our brother,3 neither •ad we been his members, if his humane nature had continued in death. Which thing all the testimonies do confirm, which attribute an eternal kingdom unto •he seed of David. For on that kingdom is our salvation grounded: and the kingdom of Christ the Son of David could by no means have been eternal, if his human nature had continued in death. Ob. But in the old Testament, before his incarnation or humiliation, Christ, without his humanity, did bestow the same benefits on the Fathers which he bestoweth on us in the new Testament, and was no less, before the taking of flesh, Mediator, than since; also he did the same things before his coming, which he doth after his coming in the flesh. Therefore it was not necessary that Christ for this cause should become man, and suffer death. Answ. But neither had he then done those things, except he should have been afterwards man, and have continued always man: