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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.
1. What mans delivery is, and wherein it consisteth.
This word Delivery is respective: For all delivery and liberty hath a respect of the thing from which it exempteth, and of the thing into which it freeth or delivereth: as, delivery from captivity and bondage, into liberty and freedom, respecteth captivity, whence it absolveth; and liberty, whereof it gives us possession. Now men are by nature the slaves of sin, Satan, and death. We can therefore no way better conceive and understand what mans delivery is,1 then by a serious meditation and examination what his misery is. Mans misery consisteth, 1. In his loss of righteousness, and his inbred corruption, to wit, sin. 2. In the punishments of sin. His delivery therefore from this misery requireth, 1. A perfect pardoning and abolishment of sin, with a renewing in us the righteousness we have lost. 2. An immunity from all penalties and miseries, which are the wages of sin. As then there are two parts of mans misery, I mean, Sin and Death: So there are on the other side two parts of his delivery, to wit, from sin, and from death. His delivery from sin is both a pardoning of the sin, that it may not for ever be imputed; and an abolishing of it in us by the renewing of our nature, that it reign not in our mortal body. His delivery from death is first, a delivery from desperation, or the feeling of Gods wrath, which being in the wicked here begun, shall continue everlastingly, and is called everlasting death: and secondly, from all calamities and miseries of this life; and lastly, from temporal and eternal death. Hence it appeareth what, and of what quality mans delivery is;2 to wit, A perfect acquittal of man, being fallen, from all the misery of sin and death, and a full restoring by Christ of righteousness, holiness, life, and everlasting felicity or perfect blessedness; which in all true believers is begun here in this life, and shall be perfected in the life to come.