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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
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.
OF THE PASSOVER. Seeing it is aforesaid, that the Lords Supper succeeded the Passover, it shall not be impertinent to declare here in brief the doctrine of the Passover. The Questions concerning the Passover are these: 1. What it was. 2. What were the ends and uses thereof. 3. What are the allegories or resemblances of the rites of the Paschal lamb. 4. Whether it be now abrogated, and what succeeded in place thereof. 1. What the Passover was. The Passover was a solemn eating of a Lamb, enjoined the Israelites by God that this ceremony, being yearly performed throughout every house, might be a memorial unto them of their deliverance out of Egypt, but should especially signify unto the faithful their spiritual freedom from sin and death by Christ, which was to be sacrificed or slain on the cross, and to be eaten by faith. Or, It was a Sacrament of the ancient Church, which by Gods commandment was to be celebrated with the yearly slaying and eating in every family of the Jews a lamb of a year old, to be a remembrance unto hem of the benefits of their delivery out of Egypt, and a seal of the promise of grace touching remission of sins for the sacrifice of the Messiah. Pascha the Greek word, cometh from the Hebrew Pesach a ⟨p. 468⟩Passover, derived of Pasach, which signifieth, To pass over. This Sacrament and whole solemnity had his name from the passing over of the Angel, who seeing the blood of the Lamb on the Israelites upper door-posts, passed over, and spared their first-born, when he slew all the first-born of the Egyptians. The history of the institution of the Passover is extant Exod. 12. God commanded that the killing of the Lamb should be executed with certain and divers ceremonies.1 For, A lamb of a year old, a male without blemish, was to be separated from the flock, the tenth day of the first month called Nisan, or Abib, according to the number of the families, for every household a lamb; and was to be slain four days after, that is, the fourteenth day at even, and the posts and lintels, or upper cheeks of the doors of their houses were to be sprinkled with his blood: then was he to be roasted, and eaten whole, and in haste, with unleavened bread and sour herbs; and they that did eat it stood with their loins girt, their shoes on their feet, and their staves in their hands.