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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.
Divine laws, that is, the laws of God, partly belong unto Angels, and partly unto men, and partly unto certain special men. And these do not only bind unto external actions, but require further, internal or inward qualities, actions, and motions; neither propose they corporal and temporal rewards and punishments only, but eternal also and spiritual; and they are the ends, for which humane laws are made. Divine laws are some eternal and unchangeable, some changeable; yet so, that they can be changed of none but of God himself, who made them.
Divine lawes, that is, the lawes of God, partly belong unto Angels, and partly unto men, and partly unto certain speciall men. And these doe not only bind unto externall actions, but require further, internall or inward qualities, actions, and motions; neither propose they corporall and temporal rewards and punishments only, but eternall also and spirituall; and they are the ends, for which humane lawes are made. Divine lawes are some eternall and unchangeable, some changeable; yet so, that they can be changed of none but of God himself, who made them.
1The Moral Law is a doctrine, agreeing with the eternal and immortal wisdom and justice which is in God, discerning things honest and dishonest, known by nature, and engendered in reasonable creatures at the creation, and afterwards often repeated again and declared by the voice of God by the Ministry of Moses, the Prophets and Apostles, teaching that there is a God, and what he is, and what