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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.
1 What manner of creature man was made by God.
This question is proposed even for the same causes for which the whole place it self is; namely, §11. That it may appear how man was created by God without sin, and that therefore God is not the author of our sin, corruption, and misery. §22. That we may perceive from what a height of dignity and honour, into how deep a gulf of wretchedness and misery we are plunged through sin, and thence may acknowledge the tender mercy and compassion of God, who vouchsafeth to hale and pull us out of the same. §33. That we further acknowledge our thankfulness for benefits heretofore received, and our unworthiness of receiving any heretofore. §44. That we may the more earnestly thirst after the recovery of the dignity and happiness we have lost, and seek it in Christ. §55. That we may be thankful unto God for the restoring of it. Now what manner of creature man was fashioned by God in the beginning, is showed in the Answer of this sixth Question, where it is said, He made him good, and to his own Image, &c. Which words require a more ample declaration. Man therefore was created by God on the sixth day of the Creation of the world, consisting of body and soul. §11. His body was fashioned of a mass or lump of earth: immortal, if he stood still in righteousness; mortal, if he fell: for mortality ensued on sin as a punishment thereof. §22. His soul was made of nothing, but immediately inspired by God into his body, and was an incorporeal substance, understanding, and immortal. God breathed in his face breath of life,