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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.
The Explication.
Sith it is out of doubt that the means of our delivery consisteth in the satisfaction and cleansing of our sin; it is further demanded, by whom this satisfaction and cleansing of sin may be performed; whether by us, or by some other; and if by some other, whether by any mere creature; and if by no mere creature, by what then, and what kind of Mediator. To the first of these interrogatories answer is made in this thirteenth Question: to the other two which follow, in the fourteenth and fifteenth Questions of the Catechism.
SIth it is out of doubt that the meanes of our delivery consisteth in the satisfaction and cleansing of our sin; it is further demanded, by whom this satisfaction and cleansing of sin may be performed; whether by us, or by some other; and if by some other, whether by any meere creature; and if by no meere creature, by what then, and what kinde of Mediatour. To the first of these interrogatories answer is made in this thirteenth Question: to the other two which follow, in the fourteenth and fifteenth Questions of the Catechisme.
1Satisfaction cannot be performed of us and by us, neither by obedience nor by punishment. Not by obedience; 1. Because what good soever we do, by virtue of present bond and obligation we owe it unto God. By it therefore we cannot satisfy for our former faults. For we can deserve nothing at Gods hands for the present, much less for time to come: neither can a double merit for the time both present and to come issue out of one satisfaction. 2. In the Catechism a more familiar reason is yielded, Because we daily heap up offences and debts. For we sin uncessantly, and by sinning heap up and increase our guilt, and Gods wrath. Now he who goeth on still in offending, never appeaseth the party offended; as the debtor never riddeth himself out of debt, who without any acquittance of ancient Bills, entereth daily new bonds and covenants. Neither yet can we satisfy by our punishments,