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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.
1. Whither Christ ascended.
Jesus Christ-man, when he was together with his Disciples in Bethany forty days after his resurrection; after he had often proved and confirmed his resurrection, his true flesh and humanity to his Apostles, ascended, in their sight, into heaven. Heaven in Scripture signifieth, 1. The air: Behold the fowls of the heaven. 2. The skyey region, and celestial Spheres; When I behold thine heavens, 1the works of thy fingers. He ascended far above all heavens, namely, these visible heavens. 3. The place of the blessed, which is that space immense, most lightsome, glorious without, and above the whole world, and the visible heavens: where God showeth himself to the blessed Angels and men, where is prepared the seat of our bliss with Christ and the Angels. God is said to dwell there, not that he is contained or circumscribed in any place, but because there doth his glory especially appear unto the blessed Angels and men. It is called in Scripture the new world, the new heaven, the heavenly Jerusalem, Paradise, the bosom of Abraham. This heaven is not everywhere, but above, separate from earth and hell Between you and us there is a great gulf set, 2so that they which would go from hence to you cannot; neither can they come from thence to us. Heaven is my seat, and earth is my foot-stool. In this third signification is heaven here taken.3 Christ then ascended into heaven, that is,