A64611:1743
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. 2. We are justified by faith. Faith is a work: Therefore we are justified by works. Ans. 1. The consequence of this reason is denied, because more is in the conclusion than in the premisses: of which premisses this only followeth; Therefore we are justified by that work: which we grant, to wit, as by an instrument or mean, not as any impellent cause, as themselves understand it: for we are justified by faith, as by a mean of attaining our justification: and we are not justified for faith, that is for the merit of faith. 2. The kind of affirmation is diverse: For in the Major, faith is understood with relation to Christs merit, in the Minor it is taken absolutely and properly.
Object. 2. Wee are justified by faith. Faith is a worke: Therefore wee are justified by workes. Ans. 1. The consequence of this reason is denied, because more is in the conclusion than in the premisses: of which premisses this onely followeth; Therefore wee are justified by that worke: which wee grant, to wit, as by an instrument or meane, not as any impellent cause, as themselves understand it: for wee are justified by faith, as by a meane of attaining our justification: and wee are not justified for faith, that is for the merit of faith. 2. The kind of affirmation is diverse: For in the Major, faith is understood with relation to Christs merit, in the Minor it is taken absolutely and properly.
Object. 3. Our justice is that whereby we are formally or essentially just: Therefore we are by faith formally and essentially just. Answ. The consequence of this reason is to be denied, because the kind of affirmation is diverse. For the Major is meant properly, but the Minor correlatively, and figuratively, *else it were false: For properly, not faith, but the correlative object of faith, namely, Christs merit (which faith beholdeth, and applieth to it self) is our justice. 2. Either there are four terms in this Syllogism, because the Major treateth of Legal justice, the Minor of Evangelical: or else the Major is false: For Evangelical justice is not formally in us, as whiteness is in a wall; but is without us, even in Christ, and is made ours by imputation and application through faith.