A64611:1890
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
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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.
1AS it is true of the Sacraments in general, that some forms of speech concerning them are proper some unproper, which are termed Sacramental phrases: So also the forms of speaking of Baptism in special, are either proper, or unproper. Proper forms of speaking are these; 1. When they who take the sign, are said to take the thing signified: as He which shall believe, and be baptized, shall be saved. 2. When the sign is said to signify the thing: as, Baptism is a sign of the washing away of sin. He gave unto them circumcision to be a sign of the ⟨p. 416⟩covenant. Unproper or figurative kinds of speaking are, 1. When the sign is said to be the thing it self thereby signified: as, Baptism is the laver or washing of regeneration. 2. When the Sacrament is said to give the thing signified, or other things by consequence belonging to the thing signified: as Baptism saveth us. The three latter rules and forms of speech proportioned by them are equivalent with Christs promise: He which shall believe, and shall be baptized, shall be saved: And all of them signify this one speech: Baptism is a certain sign or token of remission of sins and everlasting salvation unto believers. For these and the like figurative speeches of the Sacraments are to be interpreted like as the figurative speeches of the Sacrifices. The Sacrifices are called oftentimes an expiation or doing away of sins: and yet the Apostle affirmeth, that it is unpossible that the blood of Bulls and Goats should take away sins. So when it is said:2