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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
Title page: Internet Archive scan of the Early English Books microfilm
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.
Ans. The Major of this Syllogism is not simply and universally true, because there the Prophet indeed prophesieth of the kingdom of the Messiah, but not only thereof. For withal he describeth the restitution of the ceremonial worship in Judea, which should be after the return of the people out of the captivity of Babylon, and should stand in force until the coming of the Messiah. We deny also the Minor. For in the alleged Prophecy, not only the restoring of the Jewish types is promised, but under the description of the types the spiritual state and stateliness of the Church, which should be under the kingdom of the Messiah, is shadowed and insinuated; which state and stateliness was to be begun in this life, and to be perfected in the life to come. Whereof good proof may be made by these evident arguments:1 1. The story of Esdras testifieth unto us that this restoring was not accomplished ⟨p. 521⟩until the coming of Christ: and withal other Oracles also of the Prophets, concerning the base and contemptible coming and kingdom of the Messiah in this world, suffer us not to believe that there shall be any such magnificent and pompous estate of the Church on earth (as the Jews dream of) no not after the coming of the Messiah. Wherefore that fore-mentioned restoring of Jerusalem, that is, the Church, is either to be understood spiritually; or of force we must grant this absurdity, namely, that this Prophecy never was, nor shall be performed. §22. That promise delivered by the Prophet (The house of Israel shall no more defile mine holy Name, neither they nor their Kings) doth necessarily enforce a spiritual sense and meaning touching the perfection of the life to come.2 For usual and customable it is with the Prophets, to unite the entry of Christs kingdom, with the full and perfect establishment thereof. §333.Furthermore, those waters issuing out of the Temple, spoken of in the same Prophecy, may not be interpreted to be elementary waters, but shadow and represent unto us the plentiful effusion from heaven, of the gifts of the holy Ghost in Christs kingdom.