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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.
Of mens commandments, and the authority of Ecclesiastical Traditions.
Of mens commandements, and the authority of Ecclesiasticall Traditions.
There are four sorts of those things which men command: §11The ordinances of God, which God will that men propose unto others to be observed, but not in their own name, but in the name of God himself, as being themselves the ministers and messengers, not the authors thereof. So the Ministers of the Church propound the heavenly doctrine of God to the Church, Parents to their Children, and Masters to their Scholars; so Magistrates propound the Commandments of the Decalogue unto their Subjects. The obedience of those Commandments is, and is called Gods worship: because they are not humane ordinances, but divine, which are necessarily to be obeyed, although no authority or commandment of any creature came thereto; yea, although all creatures should command the contrary. Hitherto appertain many places of Scripture:2 as, My son, keep thy fathers commandment, and forsake not thy Mothers instruction. Ye know the commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus. He therefore that despiseth these, despiseth not man, but God. The Scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses seat. All therefore, whatsoever they bid you, observe and do. These and the like sayings, will us to obey men as the ministers of God, in those things which belong unto the ministry, that is, which God by express commandment hath testified, that he will have published and commanded by them; they grant not authority unto any to institute new worships of God at their own pleasure: according as it is said;3