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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
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.
1 Whether sin be in us.
That sin is not only in the world, but in us also, we are divers ways convinced:1 §12By Gods divine testimony, which pronounceth us all guilty of sin; and we are to give credence unto Gods assertion, sith he is the searcher of hearts, and truest eye-witness of our actions:§2 3By the Law of God sin is fully known, as before in the third and fifth Questions of the Catechism hath been at large declared, according to those texts of Scripture, By the Law cometh the knowledge of sin. The Law causeth wrath; for where no Law is, there is no transgression. The Law entered thereupon, that the offence should abound: I knew not sin, but by the Law. §34By conscience, which convinceth us of sin: for God, besides the written Law, reserved unto us certain general notions and principles of the law of Nature imprinted in our understanding, sufficient to accuse and condemn us. Forasmuch as that which may be known of God is manifest in them. The Gentiles do by nature the things contained in the Law, and show the effect of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts accusing one another, or excusing. 4. The punishment and death, whereunto all men are subject and enthralled. Nay, our Church-yards, places of burial, and of execution are as so many Sermons of sin; because God, being just, inflicteth not punishment on any but for sin,5 as saith the Scripture: Death went over all men, forasmuch as all men have sinned. Again, The wages of sin is death. Also, Cursed is ⟨p. 49⟩