A64611:1824
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.
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.
3. Rites and ceremonies which are not commanded of God, or are not instituted to this end, as to be signes and tokens of the promise of grace, are not signes and tokens of the Church: for a signe can confirme 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 signes or pledges of Gods will.
4. Two things are to be considered in all Sacraments: the visible, terrene, and corporal signs, which are the rites and ceremonies; and the visible and corporal signs, which God exhibiteth unto us by his Ministers, and we receive corporally, that is, by the parts and senses of our body: and the things signified, invisible, celestial, and spiritual; that is, Christ himself and all his benefits, which are communicated unto us of God by faith spiritually, that is, through the virtue and working of the holy Ghost.
4. Two things are to be considered in all Sacraments: the visible, terrene, and corporall signes, which are the rites and ceremonies; and the visible and corporall signes, which God exhibiteth unto us by his Ministers, and we receive corporally, that is, by the parts and senses of our body: and the things signified, invisible, celestiall, and spirituall; that is, Christ himselfe and all his benefits, which are communicated unto us of God by faith spiritually, that is, through the vertue and working of the holy Ghost.