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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.
3. Whether delivery be necessary and certain.
3. Whether delivery be necessary and certaine.
Although God was not bound at all to deliver man out of his thraldom of misery, but it remained free unto him to relinquish and leave all men in the power of death, and save none; (For, Who hath given unto him first, 1and he shall be recompensed?) yet we may well say, that Mans delivery was, and now is necessary, not by any absolute necessity, but by such as is called necessity by supposition, that is, with supposal of some special condition it was always necessary:§1 2Because God hath most freely and unchangeably decreed and promised this delivery published; and impossible it is that he should lie, or be deceived: As I live, I desire not the death of a sinner, but that the wicked turn from his way, and live. §23Because God in the beginning created man, that he might for ever be magnified of him: He hath made us to the praise of the glory of his grace. And, Hast thou made all men for nought? §34Because God did not in vain send his Son into the world, neither did Christ die to no purpose: I came down from heaven to do his will that sent me. And this is the Fathers will which sent me, that of all which he hath given me, I should lose nothing. I am come to call sinners to repentance. The Son of man is come to save that which was lost. He died for our sins, and is risen again for our justification. If righteousness be by the Law, then Christ died without a cause.