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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 What the liberty of will, or free-will is.
1Liberty sometime signifieth a relation or respect, to wit, the power or right, that is, the ordering either of person or thing, made either by ones will, or by nature, to deal at his own arbitrement or motion, according to honest laws, or order agreeable to his nature, and to enjoy commodities convenient for him, without inhibition or impediment, and not to sustain the defects and burdens or encumbrances which are not proper to his nature. This liberty may be termed a liberty from bond and misery, and it is opposed unto slavery. So God is most free, because he is bound to no man: So the Romans and the Jews were free, that is, stood not charged with foreign governments and burdens: So a City is free from tyranny and servitude after a civill kind of freedom: So we, being justified by faith, are by Christ freed from the wrath of God, the curse of the Law, and Moses Ceremonies. But this signification of liberty appertaineth not to this present disputation of free-will; because it is agreed upon on all sides, that we all are the servants of God, and are obliged by his Law, either to obey him, or to suffer punishment. Our Will also willeth many things freely, the liberty or power of performing whereof notwithstanding it hath not.
1LIberty sometime signifieth a relation or respect, to wit, the power or right, that is, the ordering either of person or thing, made either by ones will, or by nature, to deale at his own arbitrement or motion, according to honest lawes, or order agreeable to his nature, and to enjoy commodities convenient for him, without inhibition or impediment, and not to sustaine the defects and burdens or encombrances which are not proper to his nature. This liberty may be termed a liberty from bond and misery, and it is opposed unto slavery. So God is most free, because he is bound to no man: So the Romans and the Jewes were free, that is, stood not charged with forraigne governments and burdens: So a Citie is free from tyranny and servitude after a civill kind of freedome: So we, being justified by faith, are by Christ freed from the wrath of God, the curse of the Law, and Moses Ceremonies. But this signification of liberty appertaineth not to this present disputation of free-will; because it is agreed upon on all sides, that we all are the servants of God, and are obliged by his Law, either to obey him, or to suffer punishment. Our Will also willeth many things freely, the liberty or power of performing whereof notwithstanding it hath not.