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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.
1For, we that are teachers and learners ought to have a diligent and earnest care of godliness, not only for our own sakes, but for their sakes also that are ours, and our succeeding posterity: For we find, by experience, how easily in process of time an oblivion, and manifold depravation of that doctrine creeps in, the sum whereof is not concisely and perspicuously couched together and known, repeated, inculcated, and divulged abroad. Besides we know,2 that of what liquor a new vessel is first seasoned with, be it good or bad, it longest savours. There is none in his right mind but will confess, seeing the evil that we learn doth so constantly stick by us, that when the youth is not instructed in, and inured to religion, it doth threaten the leaving to the ensuing times an age of monsters, contemning God and all religion: and that, being we are hardly by the greatest endeavours and longest care made pliable to that which is good, the groundwork of the most difficult business should be laid in the first age.
1For, we that are teachers and learners ought to have a diligent and earnest care of godlines, not only for our own sakes, but for their sakes also that are ours, and our succeeding posterity: For we finde, by experience, how easily in processe of time an oblivion, and manifold depravation of that doctrine creeps in, the summe whereof is not concisely and perspicuously couched together and known, repeated, inculcated, and divulged abroad. Besides we know,2 that of what liquor a new vessell is first seasoned with, be it good or bad, it longest savours. There is none in his right minde but will confesse, seeing the evill that we learn doth so constantly stick by us, that when the youth is not instructed in, and inured to religion, it doth threaten the leaving to the ensuing times an age of monsters, contemning God and all religion: and that, being we are hardly by the greatest endeavours and longest care made pliable to that which is good, the groundwork of the most difficult businesse should be laid in the first age.
- 13. Motive, the preservation and propagation of the Gospel.