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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
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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.
The principal parts of the Apostolic Creed are three: 1. Of God the Father, and our Creation. 2. Of God the Son, and our Redemption. 3. Of God the holy Ghost, and our Sanctification: that is, of the works of our Creation, Redemption, and Sanctification.
THe principall parts of the Apostolick Creed are three: 1. Of God the Father, and our Creation. 2. Of God the Son, and our Redemption. 3. Of God the holy Ghost, and our Sanctification: that is, of the works of our Creation, Redemption, and Sanctification.
Ob. 1. Unto the Father is ascribed the Creation of heaven and earth: unto the Son the Redemption of mankind: unto the holy Ghost Sanctification: Therefore the Son and the holy Ghost did not create heaven and earth; 1neither did the Father and the holy Ghost redeem mankind; neither do the Father and the Son sanctify the faithful. Ans. It is a fallacy, grounding upon that which is affirmed but in respect, as if it were simply affirmed: For the Creation is given to the Father, Redemption to the Son, Sanctification to the holy Ghost, not as they are simply an operation or work (for so should the other two persons be excluded from it) but in respect of the order and manner ⟨p. 145⟩of working, which is peculiar and proper to every of them in producing and bringing forth the same external work. A more open declaration hereof may be this: The works of our creation, redemption, and sanctification are the operations of the Godhead outwardly, that is, external operations which God worketh on his creatures: and they are undivided, that is, common to the three persons, which they by common will and power work in the creatures, by reason of that one and the same essence and nature of the Godhead which they have: For the Scripture attributeth the Creation not only to the Father, but to the Son also, and the holy Ghost: All things were made by it.