A64611:2340
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.
1The Judicial, are laws concerning the civill order or civill government, or maintenance of external discipline among the Jews, according to the tenor of both Tables of the Decalogue; that is, of the order and offices of Magistrates, judgement, punishments, contracts, and of the distinguishing and bounding of dominions, delivered of God by Moses, for the settling and preserving of the Jews Commonwealth, binding all Abraham's posterity, and distinguishing them from the rest of mankind, until the coming of the Messiah; and further, that they should be the bond of the preservation and government of the Mosaical Common-wealth, until the Messiah was manifested; and certain marks whereby this people, which was bound unto them, should be discerned from all others, and should withal be kept in honest discipline and good order: lastly, that they might be types of that order which should be in Christs Kingdom, that is, of the spiritual Regiment of the Messiah. The Moral Law is the fountain of all other good laws, even as many as deserve the name of laws, and it wholly agreeth with the Decalogue, and is thence also deduced by necessary consequent, so that whosoever violateth the one, transgresseth the other also. Ceremonial and Civill laws, whether they be divine or humane (so that they be good) are verily agreeable unto the Decalogue; but yet they are not deduced thence by a necessary consequence, as the Moral laws are, but serve thereto, as certain prescriptions of circumstances. Hereby plainly appeareth the difference of these laws. For it is one thing to follow necessarily out of the Decalogue, and another thing, to agree with, and serve to the performance and execution of the Decalogue.2 This difference yet is diverse, because there is not one and the same government of the Common-wealth and of the Church: neither is there the same end of these laws: neither are all these laws after the same manner abrogated. But the chief and especial difference of these laws is drawn from the ⟨p. 519⟩binding, time, and knowledge, or manifestation. §11. The Moral ordinances are known by nature: The Ceremonial and civill are not known by nature, but are instituted according to the diversity of causes and circumstances. §22. The Moral bind all men, and even the Angels also: The Ceremonial and Civill were only prescribed unto the people of Israel.