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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.
5. By what means delivery may be wrought.
5. By what meanes delivery may be wrought.
1This our delivery may be wrought and accomplished:§1 2By a full and sufficient satisfaction for our offence committed; that is, by eternal punishment, or such a temporal punishment, as is correspondent and equivalent with eternal.§2 3By a purging, and abolishment of sin in us, and a renewing of our nature, that is, a restoring of the righteousness we have lost, and new fashioning of the Image of God in us, or a perfect regeneration of our corrupt nature: both these are necessary for our delivery. 1. Satisfaction is necessary, 4because the mercy of God (as heretofore hath ⟨p. 112⟩been showed) overthroweth not his justice, which must be satisfied; and the Law bindeth us either to obedience or punishment. Now by obedience satisfaction cannot be made, because our precedent obedience is already impaired by the fall, and our obedience (were it any) which hath followed since the fall, cannot satisfy for the former offence, whereas man is every moment obliged thereunto, as to a present debt. Therefore obedience being once defective, there remaineth, according to the commination, If thou shalt eat thereof, thou shalt die the death, no other satisfaction, but by enduring punishment; which punishment being once sufficiently paid, God is reconciled with the offender, and delivery may follow thereon. 2. The cleansing from sin,