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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 then we our selves are not able to satisfy God, but have need of some other to become a satisfier and mediator in our behalf; the question is, What kind of Mediator he ought to be that should make satisfaction in our stead. For of force and necessity he must be either a creature alone, or God alone, or both in one. A sole creature he may not be, for the causes before discovered and expressed.1 Merely God he could not be, both 1. Because not God, but man sinned: and also 2. Because it behooved the Mediator to suffer and die for the sin of man; neither of which are incident to the Deity; so that God can neither suffer, nor die: It remaineth therefore that we stand in need of such a Mediator as is both in one, that is to say, which is both God and man. The causes hereof shall be assigned in the questions immediately following.
SIth then wee our selves are not able to satisfie God, but have need of some other to become a satisfier and mediatour in our behalfe; the question is, What kind of Mediatour he ought to be that should make satisfaction in our stead. For of force and necessity he must be either a creature alone, or God alone, or both in one. A sole creature he may not be, for the causes before discovered and expressed.1 Meerly God he could not be, both 1. Because not God, but man sinned: and also 2. Because it behooved the Mediatour to suffer and die for the sin of man; neither of which are incident to the Deity; so that God can neither suffer, nor die: It remaineth therefore that we stand in need of such a Mediatour as is both in one, that is to say, which is both God and man. The causes hereof shall be assigned in the questions immediately following.