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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.
2. The Interpreters of Scripture use both these words indifferently. For the Septuagint every-where translate the Hebrew word Hhezebh, by the word [Greek or Hebrew]: and the Latin Interpreters translate it Simulacrum. Thus the vulgar Latin Interpreter rendereth this caveat; Cavete vobis, [Greek or Hebrew], in these words, Fugite Simulacra, Fly Idols.1
2. The Interpreters of Scripture use both these words indifferently. For the Septuagint every-where translate the Hebrew word Hhezebh, by the word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉: and the Latin Interpreters translate it Simulacrum. Thus the vulgar La•in Interpreter rendreth this caveat; Cavete vobis, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, in these words, Fugite Simulacra, Flie Idols.1
3. The use of both these words is indifferent in good and probable Authors. Cicero in his first book De Finibus, speaking of the Atom•, calleth them Imagines & Idola, both Images and Idols. Euripides likewise termeth the ghosts of Polydore and Achilles, 1[Greek or Hebrew], and Idol. Therefore an Idol is not only an Image of a feigned thing, but of a true thing also. Again, on the other side, the word Simulachrum is used for the Image of a feigned thing. For Pliny calleth the Idol of Ceres, a false goddess,2