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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.
The fourth is thus proved:§1 1By testimonies of Scripture; We are by nature the children of wrath, as well as others. By the offence of one the fault came upon all men to condemnation. By one mans disobedience many were made sinners. Who can bring a clean thing out of filthiness? I was borne in wickedness. Except a man be borne of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God. §22Infants dye, and are to be baptised; therefore they have sin: But they cannot as yet sin by imitation. It must needs be then that sin is bred in them. Whence it is said: I called thee a transgressor from the womb. The heart of man is evil from his youth. And Ambrose saith; Who is just in the sight of God, whereas an infant of a day old cannot be clear from sin? Every thing which is borne carrieth with it the nature of that which bare it,3 as touching the substance and accidents proper to that special kind: But we are all born of corrupt and guilty Parents: We therefore all draw by nature in our birth their corruption and guilt.§4 4By the death of Christ, who is the second Adam, we receive a double grace, Justification, and Regeneration: therefore it followeth, that out of the first Adam there issued and flowed a double evil, the guilt, I mean, and corruption of our nature; otherwise we had not stood in need of a double grace and remedy.
The fourth is thus proved:§1 1By testimonies of Scripture; Wee are by nature the children of wrath, as well as others. By the offence of one the fault came upon all men to condemnation. By one mans disobedience many were made sinners. Who can bring a cleane thing out of filthinesse? I was borne in wickednesse. Except a man be borne of water and of the spirit, hee cannot enter into the Kingdome of God.