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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 ascended into heaven.
Christ ascended into heaven, first, not simply, but in respect of his humane nature only: 1and that the very same, which was borne of the Virgin, dead, buried, and which rose again. §1Object. 1. He that ever is in heaven, did not ascend into heaven, for then he should have been sometime out of heaven. But the Son of Man was ever in heaven: Therefore he is not ascended. Answ. He that ever was in heaven, as touching that whereby he was ever there, that is, his Divinity, did not ascend; and so we grant Christ according to his Divinity not to have ascended; for that was before in heaven: and as when Christ was on earth, the same did not therefore leave heaven: so when he is now in heaven, his Divinity doth not therefore depart from us. Cyprian saith; The Lord ascended into heaven, not where the Word of God before was not (sith he was always in heaven abiding in the Father) but the Lord ascended thither, where the Word, being made flesh, sate not before. Object. 2. That which descended, did also ascend. His Divinity did descend: Therefore it did also ascend. Ans. The signification of descending is not here proper. His Divinity is said to have descended, that is, to have opened and manifested it self in place where before it had not.
CHrist ascended into heaven, first, not simply, but in respect of his humane nature onely: 1and that the very same, which was borne of the Virgin, dead, buried, and which rose againe. §1Object. 1. He that ever is in heauen, did not ascend into heaven, for then he should have beene sometime out of heaven. But the Son of Man was ever in heaven: Therefore he is not ascended. Answ. He that ever was in heaven, as touching that whereby he was ever there, that is, his Divinity, did not ascend; and so we grant Christ according to his Divinity not to have ascended; for that was before in heaven: and as when Christ was on earth, the same did not therefore leave heaven: so when he is now in heaven, his Divinity doth not therefore depart from us. Cyprian saith; The Lord ascended into heaven, not where the Word of God before was not (sith he was alwayes in heaven abiding in the Father) but the Lord ascended thither, where the Word, being made flesh, sate not before. Object. 2. That which descended, did also ascend. His Divinity did descend: Therefore it did also ascend. Ans. The signification of descending is not here proper. His Divinity is said to have descended, that is, to have opened and manifested it selfe in place where before it had not.