A64611:1680
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.
1. What everlasting life is.
The question, What everlasting life is, may justly seem unexplicable: seeing the holy Ghost hath pronounced thereof; The things which neither eye hath seen, 1nor ear hath heard, neither came into mans heart, God hath prepared for them that love him. Notwithstanding by analogy and proportion of that life, whereof Philosophers dispute, and Scripture speaketh, we may in some sort conceive what life eternal is. Life is defined among the Philosophers diversly:2 and it is indeed a word of divers significations, and signifying divers things. Generally, both as touching God, and Angels, living souls, and plants, it is the existence or being of a living thing. For even Spirits live, but they have not that from any quickening soul, but from their very nature and essence. But in wights or creatures possessed of living souls, life is properly the being of living creatures: which is nothing else, but, To be endued with a living soul, or, To have in him a living soul. For,3 the soul is that whereby such a wight liveth, or the essential form of life; which who have, live. It is taken both for the first act, that is, for the very living and being: and for the second act, that is, for the operation of a living thing. Thus therefore it is more fully defined: Natural life is the existence or abiding of the soul in a quickened body, and the operation of a living thing: Or, it is the act and perfection of the soul, executing operations proper to a living thing: Or, finally, it is an aptitude of a living thing to work the operations proper unto it, and is also the operations themselves, by reason of the union of the body with the soul. Now when we mention everlasting life, we restrain the word life; for then we speak of the everlasting life of men and Angels.
THe question, What everlasting life is, may justly seem unexplicable: seeing the holy Ghost hath pronounced thereof; The things which neither eye hath seene,