A64611:1744
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. 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.
Object. 3. Our justice is that whereby wee are formally or essentially just: Therefore wee are by faith formally and essentially just. Answ. The consequence of this reason is to be denied, because the kinde 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 selfe) is our justice. 2. Either there are foure termes in this Syllogisme, because the Major treateth of Legall justice, the Minor of Evangelicall: or else the Major is false: For Evangelicall 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.
- *Per Metalepsin.
Object. 4. That which is imputed unto us for righteousness, for it we are righteous. Faith is imputed to us for righteousness, as Paul saith: Therefore, For faith we are righteous, and not only By faith. Ans. Again, the kind of affirmation is, of proper in the Major proposition, made figurative in the Minor. The Major is true of that which is properly and by it self imputed for righteousness: The Minor is true of that which is correlatively imputed for righteousness, because, by faith is correlatively understood the object of faith, unto which faith hath relation; for Christs merit, which is apprehended by faith, is properly our justice, and the formal cause of our justice. The efficient of our justice is God, applying that merit of Christ unto us. The instrument all cause of our justice is faith: And therefore this proposition, we are justified by faith, being Legally understood with the Papists, is not true, but blasphemous: but being taken correlatively, that is, Evangelically, with relation to Christs merit, it is true: For the correlative of faith is the merit of Christ, which faith also as a joint Relative or correlative respecteth, and as an instrument apprehendeth.