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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
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.
But would God the burden of this sin rested only on the necks of these wretchlesse persons, whose extreme barbarity yet in letting, through their profane absence, their harmless sheep to drop away by famine of the Word, hath raised a louder cry and clamour against them in the ears of God, than any we are able to make by our most just complaint in the ears of men. Another swarm of Caterpillars there are, the very trash and riff-raff of our Nation: who deeming it a more easy life to say Service in the Church, than do service in the house, and to stand at the Altar of God, than to follow the plough of their Master, have, like men of idle and dissolute quality, only moved thereto in a lazy speculation, laid their wicked and sacrilegious hands on the Lords Ark, unreverently entered with shoes and all into his Temple, taken his undefiled testimonies in their defiled mouths, disgraced, defaced, and defamed the glory and majesty of Divine rites and mysteries, through their beggarly entering into, and base demeaning themselves in so high an office. Gape not these men, trow you, for new miracles to rain out of heaven? as if Christ must needs for their sakes lay the foundation of his Church again, and call again from the Net, and the receipt of Custom, and other Trades of this world, such as he would dispatch abroad for his holy Message, that so these Artisans might be invested with Apostle-ships, Doctor-ships, and the rooms of Prophets, as ready men after a nights sleep, or an hours trance, to turn the Book of God, and manage the Keys of heaven. But, my friend, be not deceived; awake out of sleep, and dream no more: Thou art no Prophet; 1thou art an husband-man, and taught to be an heard-man from thy youth ⟨image 4⟩up. Get away therefore with speed from the Lords house: if thou be a cleaver, to thy wedge and axe; if an hind, to thy Masters plough; but meddle not with Gods affairs, lest he break out upon thee, and destroy thee.
But would God the burthen of this sin rested onely on the necks of these wretchlesse persons, whose extreme barbarity yet in letting, through their profane absence, their harmlesse sheep to drop away by famine of the Word, hath raised a louder cry and clamour against them in the eares of God, than any we are able to make by our most just complaint in the eares of men. Another swarm of Caterpillers there are, the very trash and rif-raffe of our Nation: who deeming it a more easie life to say Service in the Church, than doe service in the house, and to stand at the Altar of God, than to follow the plough of their Master, have, like men of idle and dissolute quality, only moved thereto in a lazie speculation, laid their wicked and sacrilegious hands on the Lords Arke, unreverently entered with shooes and all into his Temple, taken his undefiled testimonies in their defiled mouthes, disgraced, defaced, and defamed the glory and majesty of Divine rites and mysteries, through their beggarly entring into, and base demeaning themselves in so high an office. Gape not these men, trowe you, for new miracles to raine out of heaven? as if Christ must needs for their sakes lay the foundation of his Church againe, and call againe from the Net, and the receipt of Custome, and other Trades of this world, such as he would despatch abroad for his holy Message, that so these Artisans might be invested with Apostle-ships, Doctor-ships, and the roomes of Prophets, as ready men after a nights sleep, or an houres transe, to turne the Book of God, and mannage the Keyes of heaven. But, my friend, be not deceived; awake out of sleep, and dream no more: Thou art no Prophet;