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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.
11. Object. If sin be propagated from the Parents unto their posterity, it passeth to the off-spring, either by their body, or by their soul. Not by the body, because that is bestial, and unreasonable; nor by the soul, because that is not derived by deduction out of the soul of the Parents, whereas it is a spiritual substance, which may not be severed into parts; neither is it created corrupt by God, whereas God is not the author of sin: Wherefore certainly original sin passeth not by nature from the Parents unto the children. 1. Answ. We deny the Major: because the soul, being created by God pure and undefiled, may draw naughtiness and corruption from the body, though it be brutish, into which it is infused. Neither is it absurd to say, that the evil disposed temperature of the body is an unfit instrument for the good actions of the soul, and corrupteth the soul, not being established in her righteousness; so that it presently falleth from her integrity as soon as it is infused and united unto the body: 2. Answ. We likewise deny the consequence and coherence of the Major, because in ⟨p. 52⟩it there is not made a sufficient account and reckoning of the parts by which Original sin passeth: For it passeth neither by the body, nor by the soul, but by the offence of our Parents, in regard whereof God, even whilst he createth mans soul, bereaveth it of Original righteousness, and other such like gifts, which he gave on that condition to our first Parents, that they should continue, or lose them to posterity, according as they themselves either kept, or lost them. Neither is God in so doing either unjust, or the cause of sin: for this privation or want of righteousness is in respect of God, which inflicteth it for the offence of our first Parents, no sin, but a most just punishment: although in respect of the Parents, which draw it unto themselves and their posterity, it be a sin. Wherefore, if the whole Major be laid down thus, Original sin passeth unto posterity either by the Body, or by the Soul, or by the Sin of Parents, and merit of this privation of righteousness; If the Major, I say, be thus proposed, the fault of the Argument is soon espied: for, as Original sin first sprung in our Parents by their offence; so by the same it is conveyed unto posterity.
11. Object. If sinne be propagated from the Parents unto their posterity, it passeth to the off-spring, either by their body, or by their soule. Not by the body, because that is bestiall, and unreasonable; nor by the soule, because that is not derived by deduction out of the soule of the Parents, whereas it is a spirituall substance, which may not be severed into parts; neither is it created corrupt by God, whereas God is not the authour of sin: Wherefore certainly originall sinne passeth not by nature from the Parents unto the children. 1. Answ. We deny the Major: because the soule, being created by God pure and undefiled, may draw naughtinesse and corruption from the body, though it be brutish, into which it is infused. Neither is it absurd to say, that the evill disposed temperature of the body is an unfit instrument for the good actions of the soule, and corrupteth the soule, not being established in her righteousnesse; so that it presently falleth from her integrity as soone as it is infused and united unto the body: 2. Answ. We likewise deny the consequence and coherence of the Major, because in