A64611:1660
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.
4. What bodies shall rise.
1The bodies which shall rise, shall be not only humane bodies, but even the self-same also which we now in our life time carry about with us, and not others created of Christ, as the Anabaptists will have it. For Job saith, In this flesh shall I see my Lord: 2I shall be covered with this my skin. And the Apostle saith, Every man shall receive in his body, according to that he hath done. This mortality must put on immortality. If then the bodies which have finned shall receive accordingly; not other bodies, but the same shall rise. Therefore in the African Churches it was said, I believe the resurrection of this flesh. 3And the very word it self of rising enforceth as much for nothing can rise but that which is fallen. This is the resurrection (saith Ambrose) as is intimated by the sounding of the very word, that that which fell, may rise; that which was dead may revive. Wherefore seeing our bodies shall rise, no other bodies shall rise or be quickened, then those which have fallen, and are dead; or no other, then those which do fall and die. The justice also of God enforceth as much:4 For this (saith Ambrose) is the order and course of justice, that because the actions of the body and soul are common to both, the body executing that which the soul decreed, both of them should likewise come unto judgement, both of them be either delivered up to perpetual punishment,