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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.
1. They who make Destiny a cloak for sin, define Destiny to be a linked order through all eternity, and a certain perpetual necessity of intents and works, according to the counsel of God, or according to the evil Planets. Now if you ask them, Who made the Planets? God, say they: Therefore these men lay their evil to Gods charge; but such a destiny did not all the sounder Philosophers maintain,1 much less Christians. Saint Augustine against two Epistles of the Pelagians unto Boniface: They, saith he, who hold destiny, maintain that not only actions and events, but also our wills themselves depend on the position of the Planets, at the time of every ones conception or nativity, which they call constellations: But the grace of God surpasseth not only all the stars, and all the heavens, but also the Angels. Let us conclude these things with the word of the Lord by his Prophet Jeremiah, pronouncing to this sense:2 Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the Heathen, and be not afraid for the signs of heaven, though the Heathen be afraid of such: for the customs of the people are vain. Wherefore that the Astrologers call the Planet of Saturn unmerciful, sharp, and cruel; and the Planet of Venus favourable and gentle, it is the vanity of vanities: for the stars have no force of doing good or ill; and therefore the fault of sinners ought not to be imputed unto them.
1. They who make Destiny a cloak for sinne, define Destiny to be a linked order through all eternity, and a certaine perpetuall necessity of intents and workes, according to the counsell of God, or according to the evill Planets. Now if you aske them, Who made the Planets? God, say they: Therefore these men lay their evill to Gods charge; but such a destiny did not all the sounder Philosophers maintaine,1 much lesse Christians. Saint Augustine against two Epistles of the Pelagians unto Boniface: They, saith he, who hold destiny, maintaine that not only actions and events, but also our wils themselves depend on the position of the Planets, at the time of every ones conception or nativity, which they call constellations: But the grace of God surpasseth not onely all the stars, and all the heavens, but also the Angels. Let us conclude these things with the word of the Lord by his Prophet Jeremy, pronouncing to this sense: