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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
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.
1Now that it is said of the contrary, That by the Churches record alone, it doth appear unto us, that the sacred books which we have, were written by the Prophets and Apostles, whose names they bear in their fore-head, and that even unto us they are come uncorrupt: this we grant not, For God far more certainly testifieth both in Scripture, and in the hearts of his Saints, that no feigned or forged thing is in these books, then it can be by the Church, and all the creatures of the world, confirmed. They therefore who stand upon the Churches testimony alone in this point, show that themselves have not as yet felt or understood the chiefest testimony.
1Now that it is said of the contrary, That by the Churches record alone, it doth appeare unto us, that the sacred bookes which wee have, were written by the Prophets and Apostles, whose names they beare in their fore-head, and that even unto us they are come uncorrupt: this we grant not, For God far more certainly testifieth both in Scripture, and in the hearts of his Saints, that no feigned or forged thing is in these books, then it can be by the Church, and all the creatures of the world, confirmed. They therefore who stand upon the Churches testimony alone in this point, shew that themselves have not as yet felt or understood the chiefest testimony.
- 11 Object. That they are true, the Church alone doth witness. Ans. The Minor is false.1 Object. That they are true, the Church alone doth witnesse. Ans. The Minor is false.
1Furthermore they say, That the books authentic, or, as they term them, Canonical, of both Testaments, are discerned from the Apocryphal by the Churches judgement: and therefore that the authority of holy Canon doth depend on the Churches wisdom. But that this difference of the books is not determined by the Churches judgement, but being imprinted into the books themselves by the Spirit of God, is only acknowledged and approved by the Church; this is easily to be understood, if the causes of this difference be considered. For either in these which are called Apocryphal, the force and majesty of the heavenly Spirit doth less evidently appear in the weight and vehemency of word and matter, then in others; of which it is clear, that they are the heavenly Oracles,