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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.
7. If the bread be properly Christs body, and the cup his blood, it must needs be, that in the first Supper the blood was separated from Christs body, and that now both of them be given us apart, as they are signs apart: But neither in the first Supper was the blood then without the body, neither is the body now given without blood (for then Christ was not yet dead, and now he dieth no more:) Therefore the bread is the body, and the cup the blood of Christ, not properly, but sacramentally.
7. If the bread be properly Christs body, and the cup his bloud, it must needs be, that in the first Supper the bloud was separated from Christs body, and that now both of them be given us apart, as they are signes apart: But neither in the first Supper was the bloud then without the body, neither is the body now given without bloud (for then Christ was not yet dead, and now he dieth no more:) Therefore the bread is the body, and the cup the bloud of Christ, not properly, but sacramentally.
8. That which Christ himself did eat and drink, was not properly his body and blood; else should he have eaten and drunken himself: But he did eat of that bread, and drink of that cup; for he saith, I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine: 1and Chrysostom commenting hereon, saith, He also drank of the cup, 2lest hearing those words, they should say, What? Do we then drink blood, and eat flesh? and so be troubled. For when he first made mention of this kind of eating and drinking, many took offence for the words sake only: Therefore, lest this should then also happen, he himself first did eat and drink, that so he might lead them with a quiet reposed mind to the communion of the mysteries. The bread therefore and the cup are not properly Christs body and blood, but sacramentally.
8. That which Christ himself did eat and drink, was not properly his body and bloud; else should hee have eaten and drunken himselfe: But hee did eat of that bread, and drink of that cup; for he saith, I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine: