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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. What predestination is.
1Predestination differeth from providence, as a special from the general: For providence is the eternal counsel of God concerning all creatures; but predestination is the eternal counsel of God concerning the saving of men and angels. Wherefore predestination is the eternal, most just, and unchangeable counsel of God, of creating men, of permitting their fall into sin and eternal death, of sending his Son into flesh, that he might be a sacrifice; and of converting some by the word and the holy Ghost for the Mediators sake, and saving them in true faith and conversion, justifying them by and for him, raising them up to glory, and bestowing on them eternal life: and of leaving the rest in sin, and eternal death, and raising them up to judgment, and casting them into eternal pains. Here is spoken of men which shall be saved, and not saved: therefore to them only, and not to angels, doth this definition of predestination agree.
1PRedestination differeth from providence, as a speciall from the generall: For providence is the eternall counsell of God concerning all creatures; but predestination is the eternall counsell of God concerning the saving of men and angels. Wherefore predestination is the eternall, most just, and unchangeable counsell of God, of creating men, of permitting their fall into sin and eternall death, of sending his Son into flesh, that he might be a sacrifice; and of converting some by the word and the holy Ghost for the Mediatours sake, and saving them in true faith and conversion, justifying them by and for him, raising them up to glory, and bestowing on them eternall life: and of leaving the rest in sin, and eternall death, and raising them up to judgment, and casting them into eternall pains. Here is spoken of men which shall be saved, and not saved: therefore to them onely, and not to angels, doth this definition of predestination agree.