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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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4. That we may judge aright of the meaning of every Commandment, or Law, we must above all things consider the drift or end thereof. For the end of the Law showeth the meaning thereof: and by the end which God in every Commandment intendeth, ⟨p. 529⟩we shall judge aright and easily of the means. This rule also is of force in humane Laws. But we are to understand it of the next and nearest end of the Law. For not those things which are necessary to the attaining of such ends as are remote or a far off, but those which are necessary to the attaining of the nearest and subordinate ends, are to be comprised in the sentence and prescript of one law; which, except it be observed, the sentence and substance of all, or many laws, will be brought all into one. The furthest end, and therefore the end of the whole Law, is the worship of God. It requireth therefore the whole obedience of the Law.
4. That we may judge aright of the meaning of every Commandement, or Law, we must above all things consider the drift or end thereof. For the end of the Law sheweth the meaning thereof: and by the end which God in every Commandement intendeth, ⟨p. 529⟩we shall judge aright and easily of the meanes. This rule also is of force in humane Laws. But we are to understand it of the next and neerest end of the Law. For not those things which are necessary to the attaining of such ends as are remote or a far off, but those which are necessary to the attaining of the neerest and subordinate ends, are to be comprised in the sentence and prescript of one law; which, except it be observed, the sentence and substance of all, or many laws, will be brought all into one. The furthest end, and therefore the end of the whole Law, is the worship of God. It requireth therefore the whole obedience of the Law.
The end of the second Table, is the preservation of the society of mankind: this requireth all the duties of the second Table. The end of the fifth commandment is, the preservation of civill order: it compriseth therefore the duties of superiors towards inferiors, and inferiors towards superiors; because without these, civill order cannot be preserved.