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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.
Now in the process of this our discourse, we will gather in one the testimonies of Scripture, resolve certain doubts, and discover the very fountain and original of sin. Many are the testimonies of Scripture which teach us, that God is not the author of sin; of which it shall suffice to propose only some few: God made not death, 1neither hath he pleasure in the destruction of the living. I desire not the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way, and live: For thou art not a God that loveth wickedness, neither shall evil dwell with thee. The foolish shall not stand in thy sight. God made man righteous, 2but they have sought many inventions. Our unrighteousness commendeth the righteousness of God. 3By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin. I know that in me there dwelleth no good thing. Of this we conclude, that God is not the author of sin, but that the original of evil springeth from man himself, by the instigation of the Devil; yet so nevertheless, that we say, that the Devil, being at the first corrupted, did corrupt man; but could have done nothing, except man of his own accord had consented to evil.4 Here are we to remember again the fall of our father Adam. God made Adam to his own image and similitude; that is, he made him most good, uncorrupt, holy, righteous, and immortal; he furnished him with most excellent gifts, that nothing might be wanting unto him to all blessedness in God: Wherefore his Understanding was wholly divine, his Will most free, and most holy, he had power of doing good and evil; a law was given him of God, which showed him what he should do, or what he should not do: For the Lord said,5 Thou shalt not eat of the tree of knowledge both of good and evil. God simply required of him Obedience and Faith, and that the whole Adam should depend of him, and that not constrained by necessity, but should do it freely.6 God made man from the beginning, and left him in in the hand of his counsel, saying: If thou wilt, thou shalt observe the commandments, and testify thy good will. Therefore when the Serpent tempted man, and counselled him to taste of the forbidden tree, man was not ignorant that the counsel of the Serpent did not agree with the commandment of God: