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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
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.
The most are naught) the best teacher, or the greatest lover of the common good, should be in the unhappiest condition, hardly sitting fast in his own place. For mine own part, I feel my self to be so affected, that (me thinks) my sorrow permits me not to stand in this Pulpit, but shuts up my speech within my bowels and jaws; but that I know for certain, that in this our assembly there are, whose hearts entertain the t•e and saving doctrine, & are inflamed with the holy Spirit, in a due manner knowing, & calling upon God, being lively temples of him, & shall hereafter praise him in the celestial Quire. We speak not this to that end, as if we did expect equal knowledge & understanding, or the same gifts of the holy Spirit in all men: For the Apostle commands us, Rom. 12.3. To think soberly of our selves, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. But all ⟨image 9⟩them that will be saved, must of necessity hold the same foundation, that is, that they know and believe what a one Christ is, and what he hath done for each of them: as it is said, John 17.3. This is life eternal, that they know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. And, John 3.36. He that believeth in the Son, hath eternal life. By these and the like sayings we perceive that to be a truth, which Dionysius (which is falsely named the Areopagite, but is thought rather to be a Corinthian) ascribes to Bartholomew the Apostle: That the Gospel is brief and large.1 Its brevity is apparently more curt than the Law of Moses, & ought to be, and is, fixed in the minds and hearts of men; and therefore is the sum of the Gospel so oft delivered, and repeated in the Scriptures of the Prophets and Apostles, and comprised in the Creed. But much less can ever the wisdom of the Gospel be exhausted, than that of the Law. But forasmuch as its certain,2 that in this mortal life, that which is eternal is but begun;