A64611:1685
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.
3. To whom everlasting life is given.
Everlasting life is given to all, and only such as are elect from everlasting; or,1 to them that are converted in this life. I give unto them eternal life, that is, to my sheep, who are his elect and chosen. I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me, for they are thine. Those that thou gavest me have I kept, and none of them is lost, but the child of perdition. Again, faith and repentance are proper to the Elect only. The Elect have obtained it, and the rest have been hardened. We must observe in this place, whereas the question is, To whom everlasting life is given, that it is better to answer, That eternal life is given to the Elect, *then to say, It is given unto the converted. For Conversion and Faith are the beginning of eternal life: And to say, eternal life is given to the converted, were all one, as if you would say, life is given to the living. Also, when the question is To whom the beginning of everlasting life is given; we answer rightly. Unto the Elect. For if you say, It is given to the converted: you answer no more, then that which is in question and doubt; seeing it is demanded, who they are whom God converteth.
EVerlasting life is given to all, and only such as are elect from everlasting; or,1 to them that are converted in this life. I give unto them eternall life, that is, to my sheep, who are his elect and chosen. I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me, for they are thine. Those that thou gavest me have I kept, and none of them is lost, but the child of perdition. Againe, faith and repentance are proper to the Elect only. The Elect have obtained it, and the rest have been hardned. We must observe in this place, whereas the question is, To whom everlasting life is given, that it is better to answer, That eternall life is given to the Elect,