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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.
Some of the ancient made this preface to be the first Commandment, and for the second Commandment they took the words following:1 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. But it is manifest that these words, I am the Lord thy God, &c. are not the words of commanding ought, but of one recording or rehearsing something of himself. Howbeit, the words which follow, Thou shalt have no other gods, &c. have the form and nature of a Commandment.
Some of the ancient made this preface to be the first Commandment, and for the second Commandement they took the words following:1 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. But it is manifest that these words, I am the Lord thy God, &c. are not the words of commanding ought, but of one recording or rehearsing something of himselfe. Howbeit, the words which follow, Thou shalt have no other gods, &c. have the forme and nature of a Commandement.
- 1Hesychius.
1The Commandment then is, Thou shalt have no other gods before me. The end of this Commandment is the immediate, internal, or inward worship of God; that is, that we acknowledge the true God alone revealed in the Church, and give due honour unto him with our whole mind, will, and heart. Moreover, this Commandment is in such wise a negative, and denieth other gods, as that it containeth also an affirmation, thus; Thou shalt have none other gods: therefore thou shalt have me, that ⟨p. 533⟩Jehovah, which have manifested my self in my Church, thy God alone. Now to have God, 2