A64611:1647
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. 10. They gather also other sayings, which take away all praising and worshipping of God from the dead: As, Wilt thou show a miracle unto the dead? Or shall the dead rise and praise thee? 1But in such speeches death and hell, or the grave, have two significations. They who are spiritually dead, whether afore, or after the death of the body; that is, they who are deprived of Gods grace, and forsaken and rejected of God, and are in hell, that is, in the place and torments of the damned, or else in this life despairing and destitute of comfort, shall not praise God at all, neither in this life, nor in the life to come. But they who are dead, not spiritually, but corporally only, albeit they shall not praise God in this life while their bodies are in hell, that is, in the grave; yet in the soul they shall not cease to acknowledge and praise God in the other life, until (when receiving their bodies again) they shall magnify him in both, in the celestial eternity. But in the mean season, because God will also be agnised and magnified of men in this life; therefore both the whole Church, and every one of the faithful, not only pray that they may not fall into that forsaking, and into that sense of Gods wrath wherewith the wicked are oppressed: but also desire that they may be in this mortal life preserved and defended, until the end thereof by God appointed be expired. For the Saints do not simply stand in fear of the bodily death and grave; but that they may not be forsaken of God, neither fall into desperation and destruction, or their enemies insult against God when they are overthrown: this with daily and ardent prayers and petitions they beg and crave continually.
Object. 10. They gather also other sayings, which take away all praising and worshipping of God from the dead: As, Wilt thou shew a miracle unto the dead? Or shall the dead rise and praise thee? 1But in such speeches death and hell, or the grave, have two significations. They who are spiritually dead, whether afore, or after the death of the body; that is, they who are deprived of Gods grace, and forsaken and rejected of God, and are in hell, that is, in the place and torments of the damned, or else in this life despairing and destitute of comfort, shall not praise God at all, neither in this life, nor in the life to come. But they who are dead, not spiritually, but corporally only, albeit they shall not praise God in this life while their bodies are in hell, that is, in the grave; yet in the soul they shall not cease to acknowledge and praise God in the other life, untill (when receiving their bodies again) they shall magnifie him in both, in the celestiall eternity. But in the mean season, because God will also be agnised and magnified of men in this life; therefore both the whole Church, and every one of the faithfull, not only pray that they may not fall into that forsaking, and into that sense of Gods wrath wherewith the wicked are oppressed: but also desire that they may be in this mortall life preserved and defended, untill the end thereof by God appointed be expired. For the Saints doe not simply stand in fear of the bodily death and grave; but that they may not be forsaken of God, neither fall into desperation and destruction, or their enemies insult against God when they are overthrown: this with daily and ardent prayers and petitions they beg and crave continually.