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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.
1 What a Mediator is.
1 What a Mediatour is.
1A Mediator in general signifieth him who reconcileth two parties at variance, by interposing himself and mitigating the offence, or appeasing the offended by entreaty, satisfaction, and caution lest the like offence be again occasioned and committed.2 For, to reconcile, is,§1 3To make intercession for him who offendeth, unto him who is offended. §24To make satisfaction for the injury offered. §35To promise and to bring to pass that the party who hath offended offend no more: For except this be brought to pass and effectuated, the fruit and commodity of the intercession is lost.§4 6To bring them to an atonement and agreement who were before at enmity. If one of these conditions be wanting,7 there cannot be any true reconcilement. But in special and as here it is used and meant of Christ, A Mediator is a person reconciling God who is offended and angry with sin, and mankind offending and subject to eternal death for the same; and that by the satisfying of Gods justice by his death, by praying and entreating for the guilty, and by applying forcibly and effectually his merit through faith on them that believe, and regenerating them by his holy Spirit, effecting that they cease from sinning, and lastly, hearing their groans and petitions when they call on him. Or, A Mediator is a pacifier or reconciler of God and men, assuaging Gods wrath, and restoring men into Gods favour by intercession and satisfaction for their sins, and by causing God to love men, and men to love God, so that hence issueth an inviolable peace and agreement between God and ma.