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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.
12The Devil then was the cause of the first sin, or of the fall of our first Parents in Paradise, provoking man to sin; §23and with the Devil mans will freely declining from God, and yielding obedience to the Devil. §34That first fall of Adam is the efficient cause of Original sin both in Adam and in his posterity: By one mans disobedience many were made sinners; and the precedent and (as it were) preparative cause of all actual sins in posterity, is original sin. The sin that dwelleth in me doth evil. When lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin. The accidentary or casual motives to sin, are those objects which solicit men to sin: Sin took an occasion by the commandment, §45and wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. Actual sins precedent, are the causes of other actual sins which follow: whereas the Scripture lessoneth us, that God plagueth and scourgeth sin with sin, and the sins which follow, are the punishments of sins which went before.§5 6Wherefore also God gave them up to their hearts lust, unto uncleanness they wrought filthiness, and received in themselves such recompense of their error as was meet: §67Therefore God shall send them strong delusions, that they should believe lies, &c. But whereas the wit of man (to such a height of insolency it is grown) is accustomed to frame the like arguments for the excusing of it self, and shifting and posting it from it self unto God: we must here enter ⟨p. 65⟩some large discourse of the causes of sin, and shake off mans frivolous pretences in his own behalf.