A64611:1904
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. A Sacrament, which is instituted of God to this end, that it may be a solemn receiving into the Church, and a severing or sign of distinguishing the whole Church from all other sects, must be communicated to all ages whereunto the covenant, and receiving into the Church, and distinction from infidels agreeth: But baptism is such a Sacrament: Therefore it must needs be administered to all ages, and by consequent hereof, to infants also. The consequence is good, being drawn from the proper final cause to the effect: For to whomsoever the final cause agreeth, to them the effect is rightly and necessarily attributed.
3. A Sacrament, which is instituted of God to this end, that it may be a solemn receiving into the Church, and a severing or signe of distinguishing the whole Church from all other sects, must be communicated to all ages whereunto the covenant, and receiving into the Church, and distinction from infidels agreeth: But baptism is such a Sacrament: Therefore it must needs be administred to all ages, and by consequent hereof, to infants also. The consequence is good, being drawn from the proper finall cause to the effect: For to whomsoever the finall cause agreeth, to them the effect is rightly and necessarily attributed.
4. Circumcision in the old Testament belonged both to aged, and to infants: Baptism in the new Testament succeedeth circumcision, and indeed so succeedeth, as it hath the same use which circumcision had in the old Testament:1 Ye are circumcised in Christ with circumcision made without hands, by putting off the sinful body of the flesh, through the circumcision of Christ, in that ye are buried with him through Baptism, in whom ye are also raised up together: Therefore baptism is our circumcision, that is, a Sacrament whereby the same things are confirmed and conferred, and that unto as many now in the new Testament, which were confirmed and conferred, and to as many as they were confirmed and conferred in the old Testament by circumcision. Wherefore the Anabaptists, denying baptism to infants born in the Church, not only spoil them of their right;