A64611:1906
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.
1Object. 1. No opinion is to be received, whereof we have neither express commandment, nor apparent example in the Scripture: But there is no commandment or example extant in Scripture of baptising infants: Wherefore the baptism of infants is not to be permitted in the Church. Answ. The Minor is an open falsehood: For we read ⟨p. 419⟩a general commandment to this purpose, Baptise all nations. To these all the infants of the Church appertain. There are famous examples of whole families baptised by the Apostles, without excluding the infants belonging to those families. Lydia a seller of purple, and her whole household, was baptised. 2The jailer of Philippi was baptised, with all that belonged unto him, straightway. I baptised all the house of Stephanas. Rep. 1. Christ doth not expressly command that infants should be baptised. Ans. Neither doth he expressly command that any of ripe years, men, women, citizens, country-men, fullers, threshers, and other base artisans, such as (for the most part) Anabaptists are: he commandeth that all be baptised, of what age, sex, condition, on state soever, which pertain to the covenant and the Church; and in general prescripts and laws, the rehearsal of each particular is not required, because laws pass on the whole kind, and will that the like censure take place in particulars of any general, which is of force in the general it self. The Anabaptists themselves forbid not women to come to the Supper; yet have they no express commandment or example in Scripture for this fact. Touching baptism we have a general precept; Teach all nations (saith Christ) and baptise them. His commandment is, that all be baptised who are disciples: but infants are disciples, because they are born in Christs school, and are taught in their kind. Peter also enjoineth the same, saying, The promise is made to you, and to your children: 3therefore be baptised every one of you. Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptised, which have received the holy Ghost as well as we? And Paul prescribeth the same baptism, teaching us, that we are circumcised in Christ, and buried with him through baptism. 4