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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. 1. Thou shalt make no graven Image: Therefore God forbiddeth the Art of graving. Ans God indeed forbiddeth the abuse; and that is: 1. If we would grave an Image of God. 2. If we bind and tie the worship of God unto Images.
Object. 1. Thou shalt make no graven Image: Therefore God forbiddeth the Art of graving. Ans God indeed forbiddeth the abuse; and that is: 1. If we would grave an Image of God. 2. If we binde and tye the worship of God unto Images.
Object. 2. The holy Scripture attributing the parts of mans body unto God, doth signify thereby his nature and property. Therefore it is lawful also to signify the nature and property of God by Images. Answ. There is a dissimilitude between these Metaphors or translations of words, and between Images: because unto them is annexed an opposition of them in the word of God, which hindereth and stoppeth all errors: and Gods worship is not tied to those words. But Images have no where any declaration of their necessary or convenient use, and men easily fasten worship and adoration on them: Wherefore God himself used those Metaphors of himself, by an anthropopathy, that is, applying himself to speak unto men after the manner of men, thereby to help our infirmity; and farther also permitted that we, speaking of him, should use the same Metaphors: but he never either himself represented himself in pictures and images; or willed us to use them for representation of him, but strictly and precisely forbade them.
Object. 2. The holy Scripture attributing the parts of mans body unto God, doth signifie thereby his nature and property. Therefore it is lawfull also to signifie the nature and property of God by Images. Answ. There is a dissimilitude between these Metaphors or translations of words, and between Images: because unto them is annexed an opposition of them in the word of God, which hindreth and stoppeth all errours: and Gods worship is not tied to those words. But Images have no where any declaration of their necessary or convenient use, and men easily fasten worship and adoration on them: Wherefore God himselfe used those Metaphors of himselfe, by an anthropopathy, that is, applying himselfe to speak unto men after the manner of men, thereby to help our infirmity; and farther also permitted that we, speaking of him, should use the same Metaphors: but he never either himselfe represented himselfe in pictures and images; or willed us to use them for representation of him, but strictly and precisely forbad them.