A64611:1868
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.
1Baptism is instituted to be a testification of our duty towards God, and a binding of us and the Church to thankfulness; that is, to faith and repentance. To faith; that we might acknowledge for very God this God alone, who is the eternal Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son and the holy Ghost, into whose name we are baptized; that we worship him only, and receive the promised benefits with faith. To repentance; that our whole life time we being admonished by this rite how we ⟨p. 412⟩are washed with the blood of the Son of God, and regenerated by his Spirit, should, in witness of our gratefulness, walk in newness of life; according to those sayings of Scripture:2 John preached the baptism of amendment of life. And such were some of you, but ye are washed. How shall we that are dead to sin, live yet therein? know ye not, that all we which have been baptized into Jesus Christ, have been baptized into his death? We are buried then with him by baptism into his death, that, like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, so also we should walk in newness of life. To be baptized into the death of Christ is,3 1. To be partakers of Christs death, no otherwise then if our selves were dead. 2. To die also our selves; which is to mortify the lusts of the flesh, by the virtue and power of Christs death, and to rise again with Christ unto newness of life. This mortification God promiseth us in baptism, and bindeth us unto it.
1Baptisme is instituted to be a testification of our duty towards God, and a binding of us and the Church to thankefulnesse; that is, to faith and repentance. To faith; that we might acknowledge for very God this God alone, who is the eternall Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Sonne and the holy Ghost, into whose name we are baptized; that we worship him only, and receive the promised benefits with faith. To repentance; that our whole life time we being admonished by this rite how we ⟨p. 412⟩