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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.
Object. 4. Christs words are not to be changed. Christ used the word IS: This IS my body: Therefore there may not be put in place thereof the word SIGNIFIETH. Ans. We grant the whole. For we place not the word signifieth instead of the word ⟨p. 454⟩is; neither do we change Christs words; but retain them as they were pronounced by Christ. But we say, that this is the true and natural sense of those words; namely, that the bread is the body of Christ symbolically: that is, as a symbol or token of it, or that it signifieth Christs body: For so Christ himself construeth them, saying; Do this in remembrance of me: So Paul interpreteth them; This cup is the New Testament in my blood. 1And Tertullian saith, The bread which he took and distributed among his Disciples, he made it his body, saying: This is my body; that is, the figure of my body. 2And Augustine; Our Lord doubted not to say, This is my body, when he gave a token of his body. 2. We retort the argument on our adversaries, thus Christs words are not to be changed: Therefore the Transubstantials gloss is false, averring thus; Under these forms is, or is contained my body: and likewise the Corsubtantials gloss, in, with, under this bread is my body invisibly present. 3. The words are not to be changed, to wit, into another sense then Christ will have: but otherwise, they are often to be changed; that is, interpreted aright: as when it is said, Pluck out thine eye. To him that taketh away thy coat, give thy cloak also. For words are to be understood according to the nature of things.
Object. 4. Christs words are not to be changed. Christ used the word IS: This IS my body: Therefore there may not be put in place thereof the word SIGNIFIETH. Ans. We grant the whole. For we place not the word signifieth instead of the word ⟨p. 454⟩is; neither doe we change Christs words; but retaine them as they were pronounced by Christ. But we say, that this is the true and naturall sense of those words; namely, that the bread is the body of Christ symbolically: that is, as a symbole or token of it, or that it signifieth Christs body: For so Christ himselfe construeth them, saying; Doe this in remembrance of me: So Paul interpreteth them; This cup is the New Testament in my bloud.