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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.
1. What the power of the keys given to the Church is, and what are the parts thereof.
1. What the power of the keyes given to the Church is, and what are the parts thereof.
The power of the keys of the Kingdom of heaven, which Christ gave to his Church, is the preaching of the Gospel, and Ecclesiastical discipline, whereby heaven is opened to the believing, and shut up against the unbelieving and unfaithful. Or it is, the office or charge imposed on the Church by Christ, of denouncing, by the preaching of the Gospel and Church discipline, Gods will; and even of declaring the grace of God, and remission of sins unto the penitent, that is, to them who live in true faith, and repentance: but of denouncing unto the wicked the wrath of God, and exclusion or banishment from the Kingdom of Christ, and of casting such out of the Church, as long as they shall show themselves in doctrine and life estranged from Christ: and of receiving them again into the Church, when afterwards they shall repent. It is called the power of the keys by a Metaphor or borrowed speech, taken from the Stewards of mens houses,1 to whom the keys are delivered in charge: and the keys import a Steward-ship by a Metonymy or change of names between the sign and the thing signified thereby; as we use to say, The Sceptre or Crown of any Country, when we intimate and signify thereby the Kingdom of that Country: Wherefore Paul saith,2 The Church is the house of the living God. The Ministers of the Church are Gods Stewards. For look what a faithful Steward is in his Masters house, ordering all things at his Masters beck; the same a faithful Minister is in Gods Church. Wherefore the denouncing of Gods will in his Church, is executed by the Ministers, as the Stewards in his name. ⟨p. 482⟩God himself is author of this Ministry, who gave this power and privilege to his Church, and entitled it by the name of the Keys, saying unto Peter; I will give unto thee the Keys of the Kingdom of heaven: that is, the office or power of shutting and opening the Kingdom of God: and unto all his Disciples, Whatsoever ye bind on earth shall be bound in heaven,