A64611:1635
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.
Now the immortality of the soul is proved by many places of holy Scripture:1 Christ hanging on the cross, said to the thief, This day shalt thou be with me in paradise: But he could not be there in body, because that was dead and buried: Therefore ⟨p. 366⟩his soul was gathered with Christs in Paradise, and so consequently the soul liveth.2 Paul saith, I desire to be loosed, and to be with Christ: he speaketh of the rest and joy, which he should enjoy with Christ. But they who feel nothing, what can their joy or happiness be? Wherefore they also are refuted in this place, who say, mens souls sleep,3 and so withal deny the immortality of the soul. The souls of the just are in the hands of God. God is not the God of the dead, but of the living: Therefore the souls live. Into thy hands I commend my spirit. When we remove out of the body, we go unto the Lord. Wherefore the souls sleep not, as some Anabaptists will have them, but enjoy immortal life, and celestial glory with the Lord. The souls of the godly that were killed,4 are said to cry with a loud voice under the Altar, saying: How long Lord, holy, and true, doest thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? 5Wherefore the souls live. Lazarus is said to be carried into Abraham's bosom: and out of the same place also it is apparent concerning the souls of the wicked. For the rich Glutton is also, of the contrary, said to be carried down to hell. These testimonies therefore of Scripture teach and confirm most evidently, that not only in the body before death, and after the resurrection of the body, but also in the whole space and time coming between, the souls are, live, feel, understand, out of the body, though the manner of their operations without the body be to us unknown. Wherefore also this gift of immortality hath some similitude with God, who alone, 6