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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.
The Explication.
What kind of Mediator is necessary for us hath already been declared.1 Now the question is of the person who is such a Mediator. This Mediator therefore is Jesus Christ alone, the Son of God manifested in the flesh; which position is proved by these reasons: §11. Our Mediator must be true God, as heretofore hath been evidently showed: But God the Father could not be Mediator, because he worketh not by himself and immediately, but mediately by the Son and the holy Ghost. Neither is he the messenger; because he is sent of none, but he sendeth the Mediator. Neither yet could God the holy Ghost be Mediator; because he was to be sent of the Mediator into the hearts of the elect: therefore necessarily the Son, and he only was to be our Mediator. §22. That which our Mediator should impart unto us, he must needs first have it himself: But it belonged unto him to confer and bestow on us the right and title of the sons of God whence we were fallen; that is, to work that through him we might be adopted of God to be his sons, because this was in his power alone, sith he alone had the sole claim and interest herein: For the holy Ghost had it not, because he is not the Son; neither had God the Father it, because he also is not the Son, and was to adopt us by his Son to be his sons: The Word therefore only, which is that natural Son of God, is our Mediator, in whom, as in the first begotten of God, we are adopted to be the sons of God;2 as it is said, If the Son shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. As many as received him, to them he gave power to become the sons of God. Who hath predestinate to be adopted through Jesus Christ unto himself: 3With his grace he hath made us accepted in his beloved. §33. The Son alone is the Word, his Fathers ambassador and delegate, and that person which is sent unto mankind, by whom the Father openeth his will, by whom he worketh, and giveth his holy Spirit, by whom also is made the second creation; for by the Son we are made new creatures. Therefore the Scripture joineth every where the first creation with the second,