A64611:1792
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.
6. What the signs are, what the things, and in what they differ.
6. What the signes are, what the things, and in what they differ.
IN every Sacrament are two things; the sign, and the thing signified. The sign in the element, and the whole external action. The thing signified is Christ himself and his benefits, or the communion and participation of Christ and his benefits.1 The signs therefore differ from the things signified: §11. In substance; for the signs are corporal, visible, earthly: the things, heavenly, invisible, spiritual. Obj. But the body and blood of Christ are things corporeal. Ans. The things are here called spiritual, not as touching their substance, but according to the manner of receiving them; because through the working of the holy Ghost they are received by faith only, and not by any part of our body. For that which is called spiritual in Scripture, sometimes signifieth an incorporeal nature or spirit,2 sometimes an effect or gift of the holy Ghost, sometimes an object of the spirit, and of spiritual motions, which object is received by the spirit; that is, by the motion of the holy spirit: or, which is given to them in whom the holy Spirit dwelleth; as, All did eat the same spiritual meat. And in this sense, the body and blood of Christ in the Sacraments are called things spiritual. §2