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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.
There is then a main difference between the virtues of the regenerate and the unregenerate: For 1. The good works of the regenerate are wrought, 1having Faith for their harbinger, and are accepted of God. But it fareth not so with the unregenerate. 2. The regenerate do all things to the glory of God; the unregenerate and hypocrites to their own praise and glory. 3. The works of the regenerate are linked with inward obedience, and a true desire of pleasing God: the unregenerate and hypocrites only perform an outward discipline and homage, without the inward obedience; therefore their virtues are mere masks of hypocrisy, and no true virtues. 4. The imperfection of the works of the regenerate is covered by the satisfaction and intercession of Christ; and the spots of sin wherewith they are stained, are not imputed unto them, neither is it objected unto them that they defile the gifts of God with their sins: The virtues of the unregenerate being in themselves good, notwithstanding become and continue sins by accident, and are polluted with many other sins. 5. The good works of the unregenerate are adorned by God with temporal rewards only, and that, not as if they pleased God, but that by this means he might invite both them and others to honesty and outward discipline of civility, necessary for mankind. But the good works of the godly, God accepteth for Christs sake, and crowneth them with temporal and eternal rewards; as it is said, 2Godliness hath the promise of the life present, and that that is to come. 6. The unregenerate by practising good works enacted by God, obtain indeed mitigation of their punishment, lest they should with other wicked Imps suffer more exquisite tortures in this life: but the good works of the godly serve not only for this, that they may suffer lighter and easier punishments, but also that they may be quite freed from all evil. Object. We may not do that which is sin: 3The works of the unregenerate, though civilly good, are sins: therefore we may not do them. Answ. Here is a fallacy of accident. The Major is true, of sins which are in themselves sins; The Minor, of sins which are sins by accident. Now those things which are in themselves sin, ought simply to be omitted:
There is then a main difference betweene the vertues of the regenerate and the unregenerate: For 1. The good workes of the regenerate are wrought,