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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
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.
1 What Catechism is.
1 What Catechisme is.
THE Greek word, [Greek or Hebrew] cometh from [Greek or Hebrew], as also [Greek or Hebrew] is derived from [Greek or Hebrew]:1 both these words signify in their common and largest sense, to resound, to instruct by word of mouth, and to rehearse another mans sayings: But properly, to teach the rudiments and elements of any doctrine whatsoever: and more properly in Church phrase, to deliver the first principles of Christian Religion; in which sense we read it used, Luke 1.4. Acts 18.25. Gal. 6.6. &c. So then this word Catechism signifieth in a general and common sense, the first brief, and A B C Lecture in whatsoever doctrine delivered by word of mouth. But as the Church useth it, it signifieth an institution of the ruder sort in the elements of Christian doctrine. Wherefore Catechism is a brief and plain exposition, and a rehearsal of Christian doctrine, 2framed for the capacity of the ruder sort, select and gathered out of the writings of the Prophets and Apostles, and drawn into certain questions and answers. Or, Catechism is a brief sum of the doctrine of the Prophets and Apostles, delivered by mouth unto the simple and ignorant, and exacted or required again at their hands.