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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.
Go and gather the Elders of Israel together, &c. Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and fore-knowledge of God, ye have slain: But God hath fulfilled these things. Herod and Pontius Pilate gathered themselves together, to do whatsoever thine hand, and thy counsel had determined before to be done. I know, 1that the way of a man is not in himself, neither is it in man to walk, and to direct his steps. The Kings heart is in the hand of the Lord: Therefore the wills of Angels and men,2 and all other second causes, as they were created of God their first supreme and sovereign cause, so are they ruled of him; but the will of God is ruled by no one of his creatures: because as God hath no efficient cause without, and besides himself, so neither hath he any moving or inclining cause; otherwise he were not God, that is, the supreme and sovereign cause of all his works, and the creatures should be invested in Gods room.3 Moreover God ruleth and bendeth the wills of his creatures, and doth not draw or enforce them; that is, by objects represented to the mind he effectually moveth, affecteth, and allureth the Will to will that which then the mind judgeth good, and refuse that which seemeth evil.
Goe and gather the Elders of Israel together, &c. Him, being delivered by the determinate counsell and fore-knowledge of God, ye have slaine: But God hath fulfilled these things. Herod and Pontius Pilate gathered themselves together, to doe whatsoever thine hand, and thy counsell had determined before to be done. I know, 1that the way of a man is not in himselfe, neither is it in man to walke, and to direct his steps. The Kings heart is in the hand of the Lord: Therefore the wils of Angels and men,2 and all other second causes, as they were created of God their first supreme and soveraigne cause, so are they ruled of him; but the will of God is ruled by no one of his creatures: because as God hath no efficient cause without, and besides himselfe, so neither hath hee any moving or inclining cause; otherwise hee were not God, that is, the supreme and soveraigne cause of all his workes, and the creatures should be invested in Gods room.