A64611:1916
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.
2. What were the ends of circumcision.
Circumcision was instituted, §11. That it might be a sign of the grace of God towards Abraham's posterity, and that doubly: First, That God would receive into the covenant the believers, by the Messiah who was to come: Secondly, That he would give them the land of Canaan, and grant his Church a certain place there, until the coming of the Messiah. §22. That it might be a bond, to bind Abraham and his seed unto thankfulness, or to faith and repentance, and so to keep the whole law. §33. That it might be a mark to distinguish the Jews from other nations and sects. §44. That it might be a sacrament of initiating and receiving them into the visible Church. §55. That it might be an accusation, and a signification of uncleanness by natural propagation in all men: Or, That it might be a remembrance unto them of natural uncleanness, and of casting from them the mass of sin, especially of uncleanness, 1rebelling against the law of chastity. Circumcise the fore-skin of your hearts, and be not any more stiff-necked. 2Be circumcised unto the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your hearts. §66. That it might be a sign, which should show and signify, that the means of their deliverance through Christ which was to come, should not come else whence then from the blood of Abraham: