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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.
2. Of the Original of Catechism, and of the perpetual use thereof in the Church.
2. Of the Originall of Catechisme, and of the perpetuall use thereof in the Church.
AS of the whole ministry of the mysteries of Christianity, so must we conceive of the original of Catechism,1 that it was ordained of God; and hath been of perpetual continuance in the Church: For whereas God since the beginning hath been the God not only of the aged, but of younglings also, according to the form of his Covenant made with Abraham; I will be thy God, and the God of thy seed: he hath instituted and appointed that both of them, after the exten• and reach of their capacity, be severally instructed in the doctrine of salvation: First the elder, by the public voice of the Ministry; then the younger, by catechising at home and in schools. Concerning the instruction of the elder sort, the case is clear, and out of doubt. Touching the catechising of children in the Jewish Church,2 there are express commands every where extant in holy Scripture. In the 12. and 13. of Exodus God commandeth, that children, and the whole family should be taught the original and use of the Passover. In the fourth of Deuteronomy God chargeth Parents, that they rehearse unto their little children the whole history of the Law then published. And again in the sixth he willeth, that the doctrine touching one God, and the perfect love of God, be often inculcated in the ears of children. And farther, in the eleventh he biddeth, that the whole Law and Decalogue should be expounded unto them. Wherefore in the Old Testament children were taught the chief points of the doctrine of the Prophets; whether touching God, or the Law, or the promise of the Gospel, or the use of the Sacraments and Sacrifices of those times, which were types of the Messiah to come, and of his benefits: these, and whatsoever other points of doctrine children were taught either at home by their Parents, or in public schools and congregations by the Prophets: