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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.
1The resurrection of our bodies is a fruit of Christs resurrection: For Christs resurrection is a pledge for our resurrection: §11. Because Christ is our head, and we his members. Now, it is expedient for the heads glory, that the members be glorious. Christ indeed should be by himself, though he had no members, or if his members continued in death; but he should not be head, because he is not head, but in respect of his members: neither should he be a King without a kingdom, according to the nature of correlatives, whose very being dependeth upon necessary relation which one hath to the other: and, according to the nature of correlatives, a glorious head doth require glorious members, and such as are correspondent unto it. §22. Because, if Christ be risen, he hath also abolished sin: If he hath abolished sin, either he hath abolished his own sin, or ours: but not his own, therefore ours. If he hath abolished our sin, he hath abolished death also: For, if the cause be taken away, the effect likewise is taken away. The wages of sin, is death. Further,2 if he hath abolished death, and that by a sufficient satisfaction for our sins, which satisfaction he hath showed and declared by his resurrection to be sufficient; it is certain that his resurrection is a most certain testimony of our resurrection: for he having performed a sufficient satisfaction for the sins of his members, the members cannot remain in death. But the resurrection of Christ the head, is an argument of the perfect satisfaction for the sins of his members. Therefore Christs resurrection is also an argument of the perfect resurrection of his members. §33. As the first Adam received the blessings for himself, and all his posterity, and lost the same from all: So Christ, the second Adam received life, and all other gifts for himself and others, and therefore also will communicate eternal life with us. §44. Seeing the same spirit dwelleth in us which did in Christ, he shall work also the same in us, which in our head he did. For the spirit is always alike, neither could he work in the head, and sleep in the members. Therefore seeing Christ hath raised himself up by his spirit from the dead, he will verily also raise us up. If the spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead, dwell in you: