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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.
3. How the Gospel differeth from the Law.
1The Law and the Gospel agree in this, that each doctrine proceeded from God, and that in both of them is entreated of the nature of God, and of his will and works: howbeit, there is a very great difference between them both;2 In their revealings, or in the manner of their revealing. The knowledge of the Law was grafted and engendered in the minds of men in the very creation, and therefore is known unto all, although there were no more revealing of it: The Gentiles have the effect of the law written in their hearts. The Gospel is not known by nature, but is peculiarly revealed from heaven to the Church alone by Christ our Mediator:3 For no creature could have seen or hoped for that mitigation of the law touching satisfaction for our sins by another (of which we have before entreated) except the Son had revealed it:4 No man knoweth the Father but the Son and he to whom the Son will reveal him. Flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee. The only begotten Son which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. §25In the very kind of doctrine, or in the subject or matters which they deliver; for the law teacheth us what we ought to be, and what we stand bound to perform to God; but it administereth us no ability of performing this duty, neither pointeth it out the means by which we may become such as it requireth us to be: but the Gospel showeth the means whereby we may be made such as the law requireth: for it offereth unto us the promise of grace touching Christs righteousness imputed unto us by faith, no otherwise then if it were properly our own, teaching us, that we by this imputation of Christs righteousness, are reputed just before God.