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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.
Object. 3. God is worshipped by those things which are done to Gods glory. The things that the Church doth decree, are done to Gods glory: Therefore these also are the worship of God. Ans. Those things that are done to the glory of God, by themselves, that is, which are commanded by God, to this end, as that by these works we should declare our obedience towards him, they are the worship of God: but not those things which serve for the glory of God but by an accident, that is, which serve sometime for the performing of those things, which are commanded by God, upon some accidental respects and causes; which if they do not concur, God yet may be honoured, both of those that do them, and of those that do them not, so that they be done, or left undone, of faith, which is assured, and resolveth that the person is reconciled unto God, and that the action, or omitting of the action, doth agree with the word of God.
Object. 3. God is worshipped by those things which are done to Gods glory. The things that the Church doth decree, are done to Gods glory: Therefore these also are the worship of God. Ans. Those things that are done to the glory of God, by themselves, that is, which are commanded by God, to this end, as that by these works we should declare our obedience towards him, they are the worship of God: but not those things which serve for the glory of God but by an accident, that is, which serve sometime for the performing of those things, which are commanded by God, upon some accidentall respects and causes; which if they doe not concurre, God yet may be honoured, both of those that do them, and of those that do them not, so that they be done, or left undone, of faith, which is assured, and resolveth that the person is reconciled unto God, and that the action, or omitting of the action, doth agree with the word of God.
Object. 4. The examples of those, who have worshipped God without his direct Commandment, confirm that it is permitted to men to worship God with that worship which themselves ordain. Answ. The example of Samuel sacrificing in Ramoth,1