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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. The books of lay-men, or the unlearned, are profitable, and therefore to be retained in Churches. Images are the books of the unlearned. Therefore they are profitable, and may be retained in Churches. Answ. 1. Such books of lay-men are profitable, as are delivered unto them by God. But Images are forbidden them by God. 2. The Minor is false.1 For the Prophets teach far otherwise: as, An Image is a teacher of lies. The Idols have spoken vanity. Whence we may thus reason. We ought not to speak vain things, or to lye of God, either in words, or in gestures: But wood, or graven Images are lies of God, because they cannot represent God, yea, because they swerve so far, and carry us with them from God, as their figure and shape is unlike God: and so consequently they cause us also to lye of God. If then we will not ⟨p. 553⟩lie of God, we must needs neither make, nor have any images, or graven semblances: For, as Jeremiah saith, The stock is a doctrine of vanity. 2Now in this sense we grant Images to be the books of the unlearned: to wit, because partly they teach and signify false things of God: and partly because through the reverence of the thing signified, and the place, when as they stand to the open view in the Churches and elsewhere, they easily draw away others unto superstition, and teach the people Idolatry, as experience sufficiently beareth witness. 3. It followeth not, if it were so that Images did teach the unlearned, that therefore they should be retained in the Church, as profitable books. For God will not have his Church to be taught by dumb Images, but by lively preaching of his word; because faith is not by the sight of Images, but by the hearing of Gods word.
Object. 1. The books of lay-men, or the unlearned, are profitable, and therefore to be retained in Churches. Images are the books of the unlearned. Therefore they are profitable, and may be retained in Churches. Answ. 1. Such books of lay-men are profitable, as are delivered unto them by God. But Images are forbidden them by God. 2. The Minor is false.1 For the Prophets teach far otherwise: as, An Image is a teacher of lyes. The Idols have spoken vanity. Whence we may thus reason. We ought not to speake vaine things, or to lye of God, either in words, or in gestures: But wood, or graven Images are lies of God, because they cannot represent God, yea, because they swerve so farre, and carry us with them from God, as their figure and shape is unlike God: and so consequently they cause us also to lye of God. If then we will not