A64611:1772
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
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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.
The Explication.
The right and direct method of interpreting this doctrine of the Sacraments requireth, that first we speak of the Sacraments in general. And this way may we not unfitly entreat in special of the Supper and Baptism: to wit, if we take in declaring each Sacrament in special, the same questions, and that course and order of the same questions, which we must observe and follow concerning the Sacraments in general; and lastly, if we apply those testimonies which speak of the Sacraments in general, to the handling and declaring of the Sacraments in special.
THe right and direct method of interpreting this doctrine of the Sacraments requireth, that first we speak of the Sacraments in generall. And this way may we not unfitly intreat in special of the Supper and Baptisme: to wit, if we take in declaring each Sacrament in speciall, the same questions, and that course and order of the same questions, which we must observe and follow concerning the Sacraments in generall; and lastly, if we apply those testimonies which speak of the Sacraments in generall, to the handling and declaring of the Sacraments in speciall.
The chief Questions concerning the Sacraments. 1. What Sacraments are. 2. What are the ends of Sacraments. 3. In what Sacraments differ from Sacrifices. 4. In what they agree with the word, and in what they differ from it. 5. How the Sacraments of the Old and New Testament agree. 6. What are signs, and what the things in the Sacraments: and in what the things differ from their signs. 7. What sacramental union is. 8. What forms of speaking of the Sacraments are usual to the Church and Scripture. 9. What is the lawful use of the Sacraments. 10. What the wicked receive in the use thereof. 11. How many Sacraments there are of the New Testament.