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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.
Those legal notions, whether they belong to the first,1 or to the second Table of the Decalogue, they are not perfect and sufficient: And therefore God cannot be rightly worshipped, according to these remains or relics of spiritual light, except there come thereunto the knowledge of God, and his divine will out of the Word of God, which is delivered to the Church. 2. Men not brought up in the Church, do patch many false ⟨p. 87⟩things with these true imprinted notions of nature, and do heap sins upon errors. 3. Such is the frowardness of the will and affections, even against the judgement of rightly informed and ruled reason, that they obey not so much as those natural notions, much less those which are to be adjoined out of the Word of God. Wherefore also are those complaints even of the Heathen: I see the better, and I like them, but I follow the worse: and that accusation of the Apostle,2 The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, which with-hold the truth in unrighteousness: wherefore those notions, without the grace of the holy Ghost, do not engender true godliness in them.
Those legall notions, whether they belong to the first,1 or to the second Table of the Decalogue, they are not perfect and sufficient: And therefore God cannot be rightly worshipped, according to these remaines or reliques of spirituall light, except there come thereunto the knowledge of God, and his divine will out of the Word of God, which is delivered to the Church. 2. Men not brought up in the Church, doe patch many false ⟨p. 87⟩things with these true imprinted notions of nature, and do heap sins upon errours. 3. Such is the frowardnesse of the will and affections, even against the judgement of rightly informed and ruled reason, that they obey not so much as those naturall notions, much lesse those which are to be adjoyned out of the Word of God. Wherefore also are those complaints even of the Heathen: I see the better, and I like them, but I follow the worse: and that accusation of the Apostle,