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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.
2. Who, and what God is.
1When it is demanded, who is the true God: we are to hold most firmly and surely, that he alone is the true God, who even from the beginning of mankind did not only manifest himself in the nature of things, but by the steps and prints of his divinity shining therein, but especially in the Church, by his word delivered, and other famous testimonies of miracles, deliveries, and consolations, whereby he plainly teacheth whom, and what he will be acknowledged and published by us to be, and that he is not acknowledged or worshipped of any but of them who think according to his word both of him and his will; neither is the true knowledge of him found elsewhere then in this word. The certainty of this position is hereof most manifest, for that all those who imagine God to be other in essence, or nature, or will, then he hath testified himself to be in his own manifestations and revealings, do not embrace and worship at all the true God, but another thing of their own framing in stead of the true God, according to these sayings: Ye worship that which ye know not: we worship that which we know; 2for salvation is of the Jews. He that honoureth not the Son, the same honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. 3But then when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are not gods. Ye were at that time without Christ, 4and were aliens from from the common-wealth of Israel, and were strangers from the covenant of promise, and had no hope, and were without God in the world. Whom ye then ignorantly worship, him show I unto you.