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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.
8. For what causes this judgement shall be.
The chief and principal cause is the decree of God. For therefore shall the last judgment be, because God hath said, and decreed that it shall be. Wherefore it must needs be so: §11. That so God may have his end. §22. That he may show and declare perfectly and wholly his goodness and love towards us, that he may be worshipped in his temple, which is, in his chosen, that the Son of God may have his kingdom, and his citizens glorious, and such as beseem him. 2. A less principal and subordinate cause is, both The salvation of the Elect, who are here vexed, and the ⟨p. 333⟩damnation of the wicked, who here do flourish; for therefore also shall the last judgement be, that it may go well with the good and ill with the bad: And of this shall the godly take matter to magnify and praise God. §33. The last judgement shall be because of Gods justice. Here is not a full and perfect execution of Gods justice, for the wicked must be in perfect and full evil state both in body and soul. In a word, the causes of the last judgement are, That God may utterly cast away the wicked, deliver and free his Church, dwell in us, and be all in all things.
THe chiefe and principall cause is the decree of God. For therefore shall the last judgment be, because God hath said, and decreed that it shall be. Wherefore it must needs be so: