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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.
Lastly, against the defects of liberty in the second and third state of degree of man, they object after this sort: If the whole conversion and perseverance do so depend on Gods will, and be the work of God in men, that neither they can have it in whom he doth not work it, neither they cannot but have it, in whom he will work it: then not ⟨p. 98⟩only the liberty, 1but all the action and operation of the Will is taken away, and there remaineth only that it be constrained, and suffer: which is against the Scripture, experience the inward strife and combat of the godly, & our own confession. But we answer, that the Will is not therefore taken away, when as it doth not resist the Spirit forcibly moving it: For to assent also and obey is an action of the Will. But when they reply, That we make that obedience of the Will in conversion and perseverance wholly the work of God, and so leave nothing to the Will what to do; they run into another Paralogism of consequent, whereas they remove the working of the second or instrumental cause, for that the first cause or principal agent is put: For that which is so wholly the work of God in man, that man is only as the subject in which God worketh, in that we grant the Will is only passive, and suffereth, and doth work nothing; as imprinting, or working, or maintaining in the Will and heart new qualities or inclinations: But that which is so the work of God, that the Will of man is not only the object, but the instrument also of Gods working, and an agent by it own force given it of God in producing an effect, in that the Will is not only passive, but both active and passive, forasmuch as it is to this end moved of the Spirit to work, that it self might do that, which God will work by it: which also cometh to pass in all the good actions of the Will; even as in ill actions also, when it is incited either by the Devil or other causes, it self is not in the mean season idle. Wherefore in Ezekiel it is added, I will cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgements, and do them.
Lastly, against the defects of liberty in the second and third state of degree of man, they object after this sort: If the whole conversion and perseverance doe so depend on Gods will, and be the worke of God in men, that neither they can have it in whom he doth not worke it, neither they cannot but have it, in whom he will worke it: then not