A64611:1645
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.
Object. 8. I am counted as the slain lying in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more. Ans. In these words the Prophet doth not signify either himself,1 or the dead to be exempted from Gods providence; but he complaineth that he is forsaken of God, even as the dead seem to men not to be cared for of him: and therefore he speaketh not according to the sense of faith, but of his own opinion, and weakness, and misery, who judgeth those to be forsaken and neglected of God, whose delivery for a while he doth defer. But what faith in the mean season suggesteth and telleth the godly, even when they wrestle with temptation, he showeth, when he saith, The just shall be in everlasting memory.
Object. 8. I am counted as the slain lying in the grave, whom thou remembrest no more. Ans. In these words the Prophet doth not signifie either himselfe,1 or the dead to be exempted from Gods providence; but he complaineth that hee is forsaken of God, even as the dead seem to men not to be cared for of him: and therefore he speaketh not according to the sense of faith, but of his own opinion, and weaknesse, and misery, who judgeth those to be forsaken and neglected of God, whose delivery for a while he doth deferre. But what faith in the mean season suggesteth and telleth the godly, even when they wrestle with temptation, he sheweth, when he saith, The just shall be in everlasting memory.
Object. 9. His spirit departeth, 1and he returneth to the earth, then his thoughts perish. Ans. Here he saith not,