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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.
Certain Rules to be observed touching the sin against the holy Ghost.
Certaine Rules to be observed touching the sin against the holy Ghost.
1The sin against the holy Ghost is not found in every reprobate person, but in those only who are lightened by the holy Ghost, and convicted in conscience of the truth: as Saul, Judas. &c. Object. Every unpardonable sin is a sin against the holy Ghost, because Christ saith, 2that the sin against the holy Ghost is unpardonable; but final perseverance in whatsoever sin without repentance, is remitted to no man: And therefore it is a sin against the holy Ghost; and by a consequent, all that perish sin against the holy Ghost. Answ. The ambiguity of unpardonable sin maketh four terms in this Syllogism: For in the Major it signifieth that kind of sin which is never remitted to any; because whosoever commit it, whether at the end, or before the end of their life, they persevere in it even to the end without repentance: But in the Minor it signifieth not a certain kind of sin, but all their sins who repent not; which indeed are not remitted to them, because they persevere in them to the end without repentance: and they are unpardonable, not before the end, but in the very end of their life; yet are they remitted to others who persevere not in them, but repent: For, perseverance in sin is nothing else then the sins themselves, which are continued unto the end; and therefore this is the meaning of the Minor: Sins, in which men persevere without repentance unto the end, are not pardoned them who persevere in them; but now all men do not persevere in them, as they persevere in the sin against the holy Ghost, even whosoever once fall into it. And Christ in this speech showeth not, for what sins men are punished with everlasting death: For it is certain, that it befalleth for all sins of which men repent not; but he showeth what sins are such, as whosoever do commit them, they do never repent. This he affirmeth of no kind of sin, but only of blasphemy against the holy Ghost.