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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.
1By the cause of this inhibition:because, forsooth, these Images not only profit not men at all, but farther hurt them very much. For they are unto them an occasion and cause of Idolatry, and so of punishment: In a word, God may not be represented, because he neither will have it done, neither can we do it, neither profiteth it us any thing to do it. It is a very memorable president, which Plutarch recordeth of Numa in his life,2 in these words: Numa forbade the Romans the use of any Image of any god, which Image had the form or likeness of beast or man: So that in those former times, there was in Rome no image of God either painted or graven: and it was from the beginning 170. years, that they had built Temples and Chapels unto the gods of Rome, and yet there was neither picture nor Image of God within them. For they took it at the first for a sacrilege, to represent heavenly things by earthly forms, seeing we cannot possibly any way attain to the knowledge of God, 3but in mind and understanding. Damascene writeth, that To endeavour to represent God, is a fond and wicked thing: although the very same Author else-where doth not obscurely defend the worship of Images in the seventh Council held by Constantine and his son Leo; which Council, amongst other worthy Decrees, ratified, that Christ should not be painted, nor carved, no not according to his humane nature; because nothing but his humane nature could be expressed by Art: and they who make such Images, seem to re-establish the error of Nestorius and Eutyches. 4Secondly, the Images and figures of creatures, which are set up in Churches, in Streets, and else-where, either for the worship of God, or to some perilous and inconvenient ornament, are unlawful. Thou shalt not bow down to them. 5Babes. fly Idols. But such Images of creatures may be lawful as are made and set up without Churches, without any peril or show of Idolatry, superstition or scandal only for a politic or Civill use, to wit, historical, or for record of history; and symbolical, or for evidence of some mystical matter; and for honest or comely ornament: of which kind of Images were those Lions in Solomons Throne, and Caesars image in coin or money, &c.