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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.
The especial parts of the rudiments of Christian Doctrine (as it is said in the place afore-named unto the Hebrews) were Repentance, and Faith in Christ, that is to say, The Law and the Gospel. Catechism therefore may primarily, and in the largest sense it beareth, be divided (as the whole doctrine of the Church is) into the Law and the Gospel: For, Catechism differeth not from the doctrine of the Church in subject and substance of the matter it handleth, but in the form and manner of handling it: as, solid strong meat prepared for men of years (which representeth the doctrine of the Church) and milk, and weak meats chewed for children (which shadow and resemble Catechism) vary not in the subject, I mean, the essence, and nature of meat; but in these qualities of being strong, and weak meats. These two parts the vulgar and common sort call by the name of the Decalogue, or the Apostles Creed: because the Decalogue comprehendeth the sum of the Law; the Creed in brief the substance of the Gospel. They term it also the doctrine of faith and works, Or, the doctrine of things to be believed and done.
THe especiall parts of the rudiments of Christian Doctrine (as it is said in the place afore-named unto the Hebrewes) were Repentance, and Faith in Christ, that is to say, The Law and the Gospel. Catechisme therefore may primarily, and in the largest sense it beareth, be divided (as the whole doctrine of the Church is) into the Law and the Gospel: For, Catechisme differeth not from the doctrine of the Church in subject and substance of the matter it handleth, but in the forme and manner of handling it: as, solid strong meat prepared for men of yeares (which representeth the doctrine of the Church) and milke, and weak meats chewed for children (which shadow and resemble Catechisme) vary not in the subject, I meane, the essence, and nature of meat; but in these qualities of being strong, and weake meats. These two parts the vulgar and common sort call by the name of the Decalogue, or the Apostles Creed: because the Decalogue comprehendeth the summe of the Law; the Creed in briefe the substance of the Gospel. They term it also the doctrine of faith and works, Or, the doctrine of things to be beleeved and done.
Some of the learned divide it into the doctrine concerning God, his will, and his works. Again, they distinguish Gods works into works of Creation, Preservation, and Redemption. But these three members of this division are all handled either in the Law, or the Gospel, or in both; and therefore this division is easily reduced to the former.