A64611:1633
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.
Besides, that this Question belongeth to the Article of the resurrection,1 the explication also thereof in it self shall not be altogether unprofitable or fruitle••: For, not now only do they begin to dispute against the immortality of the soul, but the Sadducees also denied it; as they likewise that said, 2the resurrection was past already unto him that believed; neither made any other resurrection besides that spiritual resurrection of the regenerate. Likewise also some Anabaptists deny the immortality of the soul. Moreover, Paul, the third, Pope of Rome, when he was breathing out his soul, and ready to die, said That now at length he should try and know three things whereof in his whole time he had much doubted: 1. Whether there were a God. 2. Whether souls were immortal. 3. Whether there were any hell. Oftentimes also in the Psalmer, and in Solomon we meet with these and such like Aphorisms:3 Man dieth like a brute beast. The dead shall not praise thee, O Lord. Wherefore it ought not to seem strange if this question be moved, neither shall it be altogether vain and needless; both because it serveth for the controlling and refuting especially of Epicures: as also because it maketh for the better understanding of some places of holy Scripture. But because there have been, and even now are, who have taught, That the soul of man, like as of brute beasts, is nothing else but life, or the vital power, arising of the temperature and perfection of the body; and therefore dieth, and is extinguished together with the body, and (as some of them speak, who will seem to believe the resurrection of the dead) doth sleep when the body dieth; that is, is without motion or sense until the raising of the body: which indeed is nothing else, then that the soul is mortal▪ that is, a mere quality only in the body, and when the body is dissolved, becometh nothing; because if it were an incorporeal substance, it could not be without sense and motion. Against these we are to hold the records of Gods word and writ, concerning the spiritual and immortal substance of mans soul: 4That the soul of man is not only a form, or perfection, or temperament, or force and power, or an agitation arising out of the temperature of the body;