A64611:1905
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.
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; §1but also obscure the grace of God, who will that the seed of the faithful should from their birth-day,§2 yea, and from their mothers womb,§3 be reckoned for members of the Church: yea further, they derogate manifestly from the grace offered in the new covenant, and scantle it less then the grace of the old covenant, seeing they deny that baptism is now extended unto those infants, to whom circumcision was extended:§4 they weaken the comfort of the Church and faithful parents:§5 they cancel the solemn bond, whereby God will have the seed of his people from their first infancy bound unto him, and discerned and severed from the rest of this world:§6 they impair and make faint, in parents and children, the study of thankfulness, and keeping their bond:§7 they impudently contradict the Apostles, affirming, that they cannot be forbidden water,§8 who are endowed with the holy Ghost: they saucily restrain and keep back the infants from Christ,§9 who biddeth them to be brought unto him: lastly, they profanely detract from Christs general precept of baptising all. All which absurdities manifestly prove, that the impugnation of infants baptism (whereon they are consequent) is no light error, but an impious profane heresy, contrary to Gods word, and the comfort of the Church. Wherefore this, and the like follies of the Anabaptists sect, is with the more circumspection and wariness to be avoided, which doubtless have been inspired by the devil, and is an execrable monster, composed and made of divers heresies and blasphemies.