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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.
5. Christ said not, Let this be made, but, This is my body. Therefore Christs words turn not the bread into the substance of his body; but they teach only that the bread in this use is Christs body, to wit sacramentally.
5. Christ said not, Let this be made, but, This is my body. Therefore Christs words turne not the bread into the substance of his body; but they teach onely that the bread in this use is Christs body, to wit sacramentally.
6. Paul expressly calleth that which is taken, bread, both before and after the eating: Therefore the bread is not reduced to nothing, nor changed into the substance of Christs body, but continueth bread.
6. Paul expresly calleth that which is taken, bread, both before and after the eating: Therefore the bread is not reduced to nothing, nor changed into the substance of Christs body, but continueth bread.
7. Two things there are in every Sacrament: the sign, and the thing signed: or, as Irenaeus speaketh, the earthly, and the heavenly thing; and without these two, no Sacrament can consist or stand. But Transubstantiation taketh away the sign or earthly thing, namely bread and wine from the Eucharist. Therefore it taketh away the whole fence or nature of a Sacrament.
7. Two things there are in every Sacrament: the signe, and the thing signed: or, as Irenaeus speaketh, the earthly, and the heavenly thing; and without these two, no Sacrament can consist or stand. But Transsubstantiation taketh away the signe or earthly thing, namely bread and wine from the Eucharist. Therefore it taketh away the whole fence or nature of a Sacrament.