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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.
He shall baptise you with the holy Ghost, 1and with fire. Moreover, we deny that this speech of Christs Supper was repeated by all in the same words: 1. Because Matthew and Mark say, This is my blood of the new Testament. Luke saith, This cup is the new Testament in my blood. 2. Matthew and Mark say, This is my body. Luke addeth, which is given for you: Paul, which is broken for you. 3. Paul saith, That the bread is the communion of the body of Christ. And albeit in this place he speaketh not purposely of the Supper, yet he stirreth up and exhorteth unto it. Repl. It is the same sense and meaning. Answ. The question now is not of the sense and meaning of the words, but of the identity of the words; that is, whether they be the same words. Repl. Where there is no mention at all of any figure, there is no figure. Answ. This is false: For foolish ⟨p. 475⟩were it, and men should seem to make show and ostentation of their skill and art, if they should say that they used a trim figure. And the Scripture also often speaketh figuratively, and yet doth it not add withal, it speaketh figuratively. Furthermore, they make mention hereof, when they show, that it consisteth of the nature of the subject and the attribute: The body was born of the Virgin, crucified, and so forth: The bread is made of meal. Secondly, Christ willeth this to be done in remembrance of him: Therefore the bread is called the body, as a memorial of his body. Thirdly, Matthew and Mark say, This is my blood of the new Testament: Paul and Luke say, This is the new Testament in my blood. Now the new Testament is the blood whereby God hath bound himself to receive the faithful and repentant into favour, and they bind themselves to yield faith and obedience unto him. Fourthly, Paul saith, That the bread is the communion of Christs body: which is not any corporal eating; 1. Because the faithful are thereby one body in Christ. 2. Because he compareth it with the communion of the altar in the old Testament, which was not corporal. 3. Because it can agree but to the faithful only, and not to the wicked. 4. John showeth that communion: If we walk in the light, 2we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.And further, this communion whereof Saint Paul speaketh, is our union with Christ, and fruition of all his benefits by faith.