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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
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The Explication.
This Question is a prevention of an objection of the Ubiquitaries, who argue thus: Object. But Christ promised, that he would be with us until the end of the world: Therefore he did not so ascend into heaven, but that he is now also on earth, and that every-where in his humane nature. Answ. They infer more in their conclusion then the premisses enforce. Christ is with us in that spiritual union, whereby we his members are ⟨p. 317⟩joined to him our head. And further, he speaketh of the presence of his whole person, to which he attributeth that which is proper unto the God-head. In like manner he saith before his passion, when as yet he conversed on earth with his Disciples; I and my Father will come unto him, and will dwell with him: this he speaketh,1 as touching his God head, which was, and is in heaven, and by which, as the Father is with us, so he is: otherwise we might reason also thus, I go away, saith Christ: Therefore he is not at all with us. But it is attributed improperly to his other nature, namely, to his humanity, 2that he abideth with us in respect of that personal union, which is the secret and wonderful indissoluble uniting and knitting of the two most diverse natures of Christ, divine and humane, into one person, so that these two natures, being in such wise linked and conjoined, absolve the essence of Christs person, and one nature should be destroyed, if it were sundered from the other; both notwithstanding retaining their peculiar and several properties, whereby one is distinguished from another. Saint Augustine's Explication is on this manner: That which Christ saith Lo,3 I am with you always unto the end of the world, is fulfilled according to his Majesty, Providence, and unspeakable Goodness: But as concerning that flesh which the Word took, and after which he was borne of the Virgin, taken by the Jews, crucified on the Cross, taken down from the Cross, wrapped in linen clothes, laid in the Sepulchre, manifested in the resurrection; as concerning it, ye shall not have him always with you. Why so? Because, as concerning the presence of his body, he conversed forty days with his Disciples; and they accompanying him to see him, not to follow him, he ascended into heaven, and is no longer here. For, He is there; sitting at the right hand of God: and, He is here; for the presence of his Majesty hath not left us.