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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
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.
These three are the whole matter, and several parts of this Catechism, which jump in with that division of Scripture into the Law and the Gospel, and are suitable with the differences of those parts, as before hath been delivered.
THese three are the whole matter, and severall parts of this Catechisme, which jump in with that division of Scripture into the Law and the Gospel, and are sutable with the differences of those parts, as before hath been delivered.
1 The knowledge of our misery is necessary for our comfort, not that of it self it ministereth any comfort, or is it self any part thereof;1 for of it self, and in it own nature it terrifieth, rather then comforteth us. But it is necessary for our comfort:§1 21. Because it stirreth up in us a desire of delivery, as the knowledge of his disease kindleth a desire of remedy in the sick man: whereas on the other side, if we have no knowledge of our misery, we affect not our delivery; as the sick man when he hath no sense nor feeling of his disease, consulteth not the Physician. Now, if we desire not delivery, we do not seek it; if we seek it not, we obtain it not, because God giveth delivery only to those that seek it; it is opened only to him that knocketh: as it is said in Scripture,