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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. Whether there be a God, and whence it appeareth.
The great misery of mans nature cannot be sufficiently thought upon, that whereas it was created to the bright knowledge, and even the very image of God, it is fallen so far, as not only it is ignorant who, and what God is, but also maketh disputation,1 whether there be any God in heaven or no. The causes of this evil the Church alone doth understand: the first whereof is, The blindness and corruption of mans nature after his fall: the next, The instigation of the devil, who would have the whole opinion of God razed out of the minds of men; unto which cometh the horrible confusion of mans life and humane affairs, in that oftentimes the wicked flourish, and the godly either are oppressed by them, or while they perceive not the causes of these evils, and the secret government of God, they fall to doubting, whether there be any God who hath care over the world and humane affairs. But that there is a God,2 is proved by many main arguments common to Philosophy with Divinity. The arguments are these:
THe great misery of mans nature cannot be sufficiently thought upon, that whereas it was created to the bright knowledge, and even the very image of God, it is fallen so far, as not only it is ignorant who, and what God is, but also maketh disputation,1 whether there be any God in heaven or no. The causes of this evill the Church alone doth understand: the first whereof is, The blindnesse and corruption of mans nature after his fall: the next, The instigation of the divell, who would have the whole opinion of God razed out of the minds of men; unto which cometh the horrible confusion of mans life and humane affairs, in that oftentimes the wicked flourish, and the godly either are oppressed by them, or while they perceive not the causes of these evils, and the secret government of God, they fall to doubting, whether there be any God who hath care over the world and humane affaires. But that there is a God,