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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.
1Again, they object: He that is the cause of those things which make sin, is the cause of sin. God is the cause of those things which make sin, that is, of the Action, which is the matter, and of the privation of righteousness in man, which is the form of sin. Wherefore he is the author of sin. To these the answer hath been made before: For the Minor is to be denied; because the action and privation of the divine light and direction do make sin as they are contrary to the law: and they are contrary to the law of God, and make sin as they are committed by man, and are in him: but as they are guided by God, and inflicted, they are not sin, but a trial of him that would sin, or a punishment of him that had sinned. Wherefore that is not of God, but of man and the Devil which maketh sin.
1Againe, they object: He that is the cause of those things which make sin, is the cause of sin. God is the cause of those things which make sin, that is, of the Action, which is the matter, and of the privation of righteousnesse in man, which is the forme of sin. Wherefore he is the author of sin. To these the answer hath been made before: For the Minor is to be denyed; because the action and privation of the divine light and direction doe make sin as they are contrary to the law: and they are contrary to the law of God, and make sin as they are committed by man, and are in him: but as they are guided by God, and inflicted, they are not sin, but a tryal of him that would sin, or a punishment of him that had sinned. Wherefore that is not of God, but of man and the Devil which maketh sin.
- 1That is not of God, but of man and the Devil which maketh sin.That is not of God, but of man and the Devill which maketh sin.
1Last of all they urge: Seeing that God would the fall of Adam, either as it was sin, or as a punishment, and could not will it as a punishment, because no sin had gone before which should be therewith punished; it seemeth to follow that God would that work as it was sin. But this consequence also is deceitful, because there is not a sufficient enumeration in the Major. For although the first sin was no punishment, yet God would that action not as a sin, and contrary to his will and nature; but as in punishing, and receiving again mankind into favour by his Son, it was a way and occasion of exercising and manifesting his justice and mercy, and an example of the weakness of all creatures, yea of the most excellent, if they be not by the singular goodness of the Creator preserved; as it is declared, God hath shut up all in unbelief, that he might have mercy on all.