A64611:1802
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.
10. What the wicked receive in the use and administration of the Sacraments.
1IN the Sacraments we are specially to consider, what, to whom, and how God offereth and communicateth. The wicked, although God in his Sacraments offer to them also his benefits; yet seeing they are without faith, they receive the bare signs only, and those to their judgement and condemnation. This is proved, §11. Because the benefits of Christ are received only in the right use of the Sacraments, but they neglect the right use of them, who receive them unworthily, without faith and repentance. Wherefore Paul also saith; Whosoever shall eat this bread, 2and drink the cup of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But the wicked eat it and drink it unworthily, because they profane the Sacraments, and transform God into the Devil, and the sons of God into the sons of the Devil. §22. Unto whom nothing is promised in the word, to him the Sacraments seal nothing: To the wicked nothing is promised in the word; (for all promises in the word have a condition of faith and repentance annexed unto them.) The Sacraments therefore seal ⟨p. 402⟩and bestow nothing on the wicked. For after what manner, and unto whom a Charter promiseth any thing; after the same manner, and unto the same men, doth the sign and seal annexed unto the Charter promise the same also. Semblably, God performeth his benefits after the same manner, and unto the same persons, after which manners, and unto which persons he promiseth them. But unto the wicked he hath promised nothing, so long as they remain in their unbelief.