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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.
1Against this doctrine of Original sin in times past did the Pelagians strive, as at this day the Anabaptists do, denying that there is any Original sin, because that neither the posterity are guilty by reason of the first Parents fall; neither is sin derived into them from their ancestors by propagation, but every one sinneth, and becometh faulty by imitation only of the first Parents. These Pelagians Saint Augustine hath confuted in many books.
1Against this doctrine of Originall sin in times past did the Pelagians strive, as at this day the Anabaptists doe, denying that there is any Originall sin, because that neither the posterity are guilty by reason of the first Parents fall; neither is sin derived into them from their ancestors by propagation, but every one sinneth, and becometh faulty by imitation onely of the first Parents. These Pelagians Saint Augustine hath confuted in many bookes.
- 1The error of the Pelagians and Anabaptists in the doctrine of original sin.The errour of the Pelagians and Anabaptists in the doctrine of originall sin.
Others grant, that all became faulty by reason of the fall of our first Parents; but they deny that such corruption was bred in us, as might deserve condemnation: for, the defects, as they think, with which we are borne, are no sin. But against these Sectaries and Schismatics we are to hold these four Theorems or Positions: 1. That all mankind is held guilty of Gods everlasting wrath, 1for the disobedience of our first Parents. 2. That there are in us, besides this guilt, defects and inclinations repugnant to the Law of God, even from the hour of our birth. 3. That these defects and inclinations are sins, and deserve the eternal wrath of God. 4. That these evils are derived not by imitation, but by the propagation of a corrupt nature from our first Parents unto all their posterity, except Christ only. The first, second, and third are sufficiently confirmed in that which hath already been spoken.