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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 division of sin.
There is sin unpardonable: or, a sin against the holy Ghost: or, a sin unto death. 1There is also sin pardonable: or, not against the holy Ghost: or, not unto death. This distinction is deduced out of Matthew 12.31. Mark 3.29. 1 John 5.16. Sin unpardonable, or sin against the holy Ghost, and unto death, is a denial and oppugning of the known truth of God, and his will and works, of which mens consciences and minds are fully ascertained and convicted by the testimony of the holy Ghost; not of fear or infirmity, but of set purpose and hatred of the truth, and of a despiteful malicious stomach conceived against the same: which sin whosoever commit, they are punished of God with a perpetual blindness, 2that they can never return to God by true repentance in this life, and by consequent can obtain no pardon. It is called unpardonable, not that by the grievousness thereof it exceedeth the worth of Christs merit; but because he who offendeth herein, is punished with sinful blindness▪ and hath not the gift of repentance: For, because it is a peculiar kind of sin, a peculiar kind ⟨p. 60⟩