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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.
An exposition of the first Commandment.
An exposition of the first Commandement.
The first commandment hath two parts: a preface, and a commandment. The preface goeth before, being comprehended in these words, I am Jehovah, the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the Land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. This preface belongeth to the whole Decalogue; because it describeth and discerneth God the Law-giver, from all creatures, Law-givers, and false gods: and further, it containeth three several reasons, why the obedience both of this first Commandment,1 and of the rest which follow, is to be performed unto God. §11. He saith, he is Jehovah, whereby he distinguisheth himself the true God from all creatures, that he may show himself to have the chief right of ruling: I am Jehovah. That is, I, whom thou hearest speaking, and giving the Law unto thee, am the true God, who is and existeth from himself and by himself, and giveth unto all other things their being, and therefore hath chief authority and sovereignty over all; Creator of all things, eternal, omnipotent, author and preserver of all that are good: therefore obey me. §22. He saith, that he is the God of his people, that through the promise of his bountifulness he might allure us to obey him. God verily is the God of all creatures, as touching both the creating, and preserving, and governing of them all; but he is the God of his Church, by the singular participation and manifestation of himself.2 God then is our God, when we acknowledge him to be such as he hath manifested himself in his word: namely, who employeth his omnipotency, justice, wisdom, and mercy unto our salvation: or, who tendereth us with an especial and peculiar favour in his Sonne. For God is properly said to be their God, whom he loveth and favoureth above all others. Whereupon also the Prophet David affirmeth that Nation to be blessed, whose God is the Lord: