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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.
Object. 2. But if the righteous turn away from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, 1he shall die in his sins: Therefore believers also may defect from godliness, and fall from everlasting salvation, Ans. 1. That which is spoken but conditionally is no positive assertion. Ans. 2. He in that place is called just, not only who is truly just, but also who seemeth just in the eyes of men; of which kind oftentimes time-serving hypocrites are, which believe for a while, and afterwards fall away: for a true just man is like a tree planted by the waters side, whose leaf shall not wither: 2And the sons and heirs only are endued with true conversion and godliness;3 As many as are led by the spirit of God, they are the sons of God. And if sons, then also heirs. 4We have received the Spirit of God, that we might know the things which are given unto us of God. We have the mind of Christ. When the Spirit of God, which worketh in the sons and heirs of the kingdom their conversion and sanctification, is called,5 The earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the possession purchased.
Object. 2. But if the righteous turn away from his righteousnesse, and commit iniquity, 1he shall die in his sins: Therefore beleevers also may defect from godlinesse, and fall from everlasting salvation, Ans. 1. That which is spoken but conditionally is no positive assertion. Ans. 2. He in that place is called just, not only who is truly just, but also who seemeth just in the eyes of men; of which kind oftentimes time-serving hypocrites are, which beleeve for a while, and afterwards fall away: for a true just man is like a tree planted by the waters side, whose leafe shall not wither: 2And the sons and heires only are endued with true conversion and godlinesse;