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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.
1Temporal and Spiritual evils: as temporal death, and in a word all the calamities of this life: These evils are only punishments, that is, torments and dissolution of nature. If any man object, That they also are subject to temporal death and other calamities, who have all their sins remitted; and therefore all temporal evils are not the ⟨p. 73⟩punishments or effects of sin, but some have other causes. We answer,2 that the consequence holdeth not from the denial of one particular to the denial of the general. For albeit the calamities of the regenerate are not effects of sin as a punishment, which is inflicted on men sinning, that so the justice of God might be satisfied; yet are they effects of sin, as chastisements and exercises, whereby sin is repressed, and more and more purged out, until at length by corporal death the whole be abolished. Now that of the blind man, Neither this man hath sinned, 3nor his Parents, Christ meaneth not simply that they had not sinned, or that their sins were not a cause of this calamity; but that their sins were not the principal cause why he was borne blind: but that the works of God should be showed on him, Christ by a miracle opening his eyes.
1Temporall and Spirituall evils: as temporall death, and in a word all the calamities of this life: These evils are only punishments, that is, torments and dissolution of nature. If any man object, That they also are subject to temporall death and other calamities, who have all their sinnes remitted; and therefore all temporall evils are not the ⟨p. 73⟩punishments or effects of sinne, but some have other causes. Wee answer,2 that the consequence holdeth not from the deniall of one particular to the deniall of the generall. For albeit the calamities of the regenerate are not effects of sinne as a punishment, which is inflicted on men sinning, that so the justice of God might be satisfied; yet are they effects of sin, as chastisements and exercises, whereby sin is repressed, and more and more purged out, untill at length by corporall death the whole be abolished. Now that of the blind man, Neither this man hath sinned,