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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. The first Commandment must be included and understood in all the rest, that is, the obedience of the first Commandment must be the motive and final cause of obedience towards the rest of the Commandments: otherwise, it is not the worship of God, but hypocrisy, whatsoever we do. For we must do all things which are delivered and prescribed in the other Commandments, even for the love we bear to God, and for the desire we have to worship him. For except we so do them, we do them not according to the sentence and prescript of the Law, neither do we please God therein.
3. The first Commandement must be included and understood in all the rest, that is, the obedience of the first Commandement must be the motive and finall cause of obedience towards the rest of the Commandements: otherwise, it is not the worship of God, but hypocrisie, whatsoever we do. For we must do all things which are delivered and prescribed in the other Commandements, even for the love we beare to God, and for the desire we have to worship him. For except we so doe them, we doe them not according to the sentence and prescript of the Law, neither doe we please God therein.
Wherefore the first Commandment of the Decalogue must shine before, and give light as it were unto all the other Commandments both of the second and the first Table, and be included in them. This rule is delivered by the Apostle; Whether therefore ye eat or drink, 1or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. By these two former rules many things are made more clear and manifest: namely, That no man in this life performeth entire and perfect obedience unto the Law; That the virtues of the unregenerate are sins in the sight of God: because they are neither joined with inward obedience, nor come from the obedience of the first Commandment, neither are referred unto it, seeing they do not know the true God: and therefore they are but a shadow of obedience, and are hypocrisy, which God most severely condemneth.2