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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.
He threatens; Behold the days come saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the Land; not a famine of bread, not a thirst for water, but of hearing the word of God. And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the North even to the East; they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it. We now see the nation of the Jews, which the Lord honoured with so many excellent titles and privileges, with so great success and miracles, & exalted it far above all other mortal men, now to be more abject than the meanest of all men, and so grossly & strangely grown blind amidst the noon-day-light of the Prophets preaching, that the example thereof duly considered may (not to say, move laughter or anger) strike a terror into us. The cause of this so great an evil we hear the words of the Prophets, and of Christ himself to aver, to have bin their contempt and neglect of the sound doctrine concerning God & our salvation. Joh. 5.43. I come in my Fathers name, and ye receive me not. If another shall come in his own name, him will ye receive. I forbear the recital of other examples, only one will I touch, which is of the kingdom of England, which a little before was most flourishing and happy,1 and that not only because it is a very sad example, but also because there is not one in this our assembly that is such a youth, but that it fell out in his days. For, in this our age, the knowledge of the divine truth was given to England, and in the reign of Edward the sixth the Church and Schools were excellently constituted in a flourishing ⟨image 11⟩estate. And when the King was seventeen year old, he was beautified with piety, virtue, and learning far above the model of that age; so that nothing in the most glorious kingdom was more glorious than the King; so that this kingdom came behind no part of the whole world in happiness. But on a sudden, this Edward, a Prince of great hope, being taken out of this life, the Papal tyranny soon again surprised his kingdom, the most glorious Churches were cruelly wasted with imprisonments, banishments, fire, sword; and men of eminent learning & holiness, without any respect of age, sex or dignity, some of them haled to the fire, and other most cruel punishments, and others cast out into all corners of the world. It was now onward in the fifth year, whiles these calamities continued there.