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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
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3. This difference which appeareth in the works of the godly and the wicked, confirmeth also that the moral works of the wicked are sins, though yet not such sins, as those are, which in their own nature are repugnant unto Gods law. For these are sins by themselves, and in their own kind: but those other are sins only by an accident, namely, by reason of defect, because they neither come of faith, neither are done for Gods glory. Wherefore this consequence is not of force: All the works of the wicked and Paynims are sins. Therefore they are all to be eschewed. For the defects only are to be eschewed, not the works.
3. This difference which appeareth in the works of the godly and the wicked, confirmeth also that the morall works of the wicked are sins, though yet not such sins, as those are, which in their own nature are repugnant unto Gods law. For these are sins by themselves, and in their own kind: but those other are sins only by an accident, namely, by reason of defect, because they neither come of faith, neither are done for Gods glory. Wherefore this consequence is not of force: All the works of the wicked and Paynims are sins. Therefore they are all to be eschewed. For the defects only are to be eschewed, not the works.
A Table of the kinds of good works. Of good works some are 1. Truly good, which, according unto the definition of good works, are done, 1. By Gods commandment. 2. Of faith. and these are 3. To Gods glory. and these are and these are 1. Perfect: as are the works of Angels, and mans works were before the fall, & shall be in the life to come. 2. Unperfect: as are the works of the regenerate in this life. 2. Apparently good, such as are indeed commanded by 1. God; and are in their kind good, but evil by accident, because they are not performed on that manner, and to that end which they should. 2. Men for religions sake; as traditions, advertisements, and precepts of Pharisees and Papists; Mat. 15. In vain they worship me, &c.