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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.
The old man, which is mortified, is a mere sinner only, namely, our corrupt nature. The new man, which is quickened, as he who beginneth to cease from fins, namely, as our nature is regenerated. The mortification of the old man,1 or of the flesh, is an annihilation and abolishment of the corruption of nature in us, and containeth, 1. A knowledge of sin, and of Gods wrath for sin. 2. A grief for sin, and for the offending of God. 3. The flying and shunning of sin. Of this Mortification the Scripture testifieth thus: If ye mortify the deeds of the body by the spirit, ye shall live. Rent your hearts, &c. Come, let us return to the Lord, &c. 2By this appeareth, that Conversion or Mortification is very unproperly attributed unto the wicked; because in them is not any hatred or shunning of sin, neither any grief for sin; all which, Mortification doth comprehend. Furthermore, the knowledge of sin goeth before grief, because the affections of the heart follow knowledge. Grief followeth the knowledge of sin in the wicked, on a sense of some present, and a fear of some future evil; to wit, of temporal and eternal punishments: and this grief in the wicked properly is neither a part of Conversion, nor a preparation thereunto; but rather a flight and backsliding from God, and an entrance to desperation, as appeareth in Cain, Saul, Judas, &c. It is called a grief not unto salvation, and, a grief of the world, 3causing death, or, a grief not according unto God. But in the godly grief springeth from a sense of Gods displeasure, which they seriously acknowledge and bewail; and it is joined with an hatred and detestation of the sin past and committed already, and with an eschewing and avoiding all present and future sin. This grief is a part of Conversion, or at least a preparation to the same;4 and it is called Contrition unto salvation, and, a sorrow according unto God, working repentance to salvation. Now these three, knowledge of sin, grief for sin, and flying from sin, differ in their subjects or places in man, wherein they are seated. The knowledge of sin is in the mind or understanding: The grief is in the heart: The flying is in the will; in that he will not hereafter commit sin. The averting is in the heart and will, and it is an averting unto somewhat, to wit, an averting from evil unto good, according to that of the Psalmist: