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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.
God cannot be defined; 1. Because he is immense. 2. Because his essence is unknown unto us: yet some way he way be described according to the measure which himself hath revealed of himself; and that so, that the description of him shall comprehend such attributes or properties, the persons, and principal works of the Deity, as by them the true God may with half an eye be discerned from idols.
God cannot be defined; 1. Because he is immense. 2. Because his essence is unknown unto us: yet some way he way be described according to the measure which himself hath revealed of himself; and that so, that the description of him shall comprehend such attributes or properties, the persons, and principall works of the Deity, as by them the true God may with halfe an eye be discerned from idols.
1Philosophically he is described on this wise; God is an eternal mind or intelligence, sufficient in himself to all felicity, most good, and the cause of good in nature. But Divinity hath taught the Church of God a more full and ample description of him, which is in this sort: God is a spiritual essence, intelligent, eternal, infinite, other from all the creatures, incomprehensible, most perfect in it self immutable, and of an immense power, wisdom, and goodness, just, true, chaste, merciful, bountiful, most free, angry and wroth ⟨p. 151⟩with sin: which essence is the eternal Father, who from everlasting begot the Son according to his own image: and the Son, who is the coeternal image of the Father: and the holy Ghost, proceeding from the Father and the Son: even as it hath been manifested from above, certain word thereof being delivered by the Prophets, Christ, and the Apostles, and by divine testimonies, That the eternal Father, together with the Son, and the holy Ghost, hath created heaven and earth, and all creatures in them, and is always at hand with them, to preserve, guide, and govern them by his providence, and worketh all good things in all: and that in mankind made after his image, he hath chosen unto himself and gathered a Church by and for the Son, that by his Church this one and true Deity may be according to the word delivered from above, acknowledged, celebrated, and adored in this life, and in the life to come: and lastly, that he is the Judge of the just and unjust.