A64611:1636
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.
but one and the same individual still remaineth, as long as one and the same matter is quickened with the same essential form. Now, if the soul die, and God create another soul, and seat it in the body, then not the same, but a diverse form quickeneth the body; and so it shall not be the same Individual. But it shall be the same Individual, as in the fifth of these questions it is proved: Therefore it must needs be quickened with the self-same soul.
but one and the same individuall still remaineth, as long as one and the same matter is quickned with the same essentiall forme. Now, if the soule die, and God create another soule, and seat it in the body, then not the same, but a diverse forme quickneth the body; and so it shall not be the same Individuall. But it shall be the same Individuall, as in the fifth of these questions it is proved: Therefore it must needs be quickned with the selfe-same soule.
But furthermore,1 That man should have led a blessed life immortally, and for ever, not in soul only, but also in body, if he had not purchased death and mortality unto himself by sin, is proved, 1. Because by sin death entered into the world, as the wages of sin. 2. Because we, being freed from sin by Christ, are also freed from death. 3. Because God himself did withdraw from man, being made by sin subject unto death, the sign or sacrament of immortality, which was the fruit of the tree of life. Wherefore their objections are nought worth, who imagine the soul after death to sleep or vanish away. 2For Adam is said to have been made a living soul, not simply, as these will have it, like as other living creatures are termed in the same place living souls; but as being made to the image and similitude of God, which he hath not in common with other creatures.
But furthermore,1