A64611:1823
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.
2. Sacraments therefore are the signs of the eternal Covenant between God and the faithful, that is, they are rites, commanded and prescribed to the Church, and added unto the promise of grace, whereby, as by visible and certain testimonies, God might signify and testify that he communicateth and imparteth Christ, and his benefits to all those that use and receive those tokens and Symbols with a true faith, according to the promise of the Gospel, & hereby also he might confirm in them a full persuasion and trust of his promise: and that the Church also of the other side might, by the participation of these Symbols and tokens, profess publicly their faith and thankfulness towards God, and bind them selves unto it, preserve and propagate the memory of Christs benefits, be discerned from all other Sects, and obliged and stirred up to a mutual dilection and love under one head Christ Jesus.
2. Sacraments therefore are the signes of the eternal Covenant between God and the faithfull, that is, they are rites, commanded and prescribed to the Church, and added unto the promise of grace, whereby, as by visible and certain testimonies, God might signifie and testifie that he communicateth and imparteth Christ, and his benefits to all those that use and receive those tokens and Symbols with a true faith, according to the promise of the Gospel, & hereby also he might confirm in them a full perswasion and trust of his promise: and that the Church also of the other side might, by the participation of these Symbols and tokens, professe publikely their faith and thankfulnesse towards God, and bind them selves unto it, preserve and propagate the memory of Christs benefits, be discerned from all other Sects, and obliged and stirred up to a mutuall dilection and love under one head Christ Jesus.
3. Rites and ceremonies which are not commanded of God, or are not instituted to this end, as to be signs and tokens of the promise of grace, are not signs and tokens of the Church: for a sign can confirm nothing but by his consent and promise, from whom the thing promised and signified is expected and looked for. No creature therefore can institute any signs or pledges of Gods will.