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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.
1Most perfect in himself.) God is moreover most perfect in himself: §11. Because he only hath all things which may be desired unto perfect felicity and glory; so that no way any thing may be added unto him to make him more glorious or happy: and all the creatures have but only some parts and degrees of blessings distributed unto them convenient for their nature and place, which the Creator assigneth and giveth to every one. §22. Because he receiveth no part of this most absolute felicity from any other, but hath all things in himself, and of himself, and is alone sufficient to himself for all things; and therefore needeth no mans labour, or aid, or presence, but was alike blessed from everlasting, before any creature was, as he is now after the creation of the world: But contrariwise, all the creatures stand so in need of the goodness and presence of God, that without it, they cannot only not any way be well and in good state, but not so much as be at all the space of one moment. §33. Because he is not for himself only, but for the creating also, preserving, guiding, and furnishing of all and every creature so sufficient, that he alone doth give to all of them all good things necessary and meet for them, as well eternal and heavenly, as terrene and temporal; neither yet for all that doth the least jot depart either from his power, or from his happiness. Now all the creatures not only cannot at all profit one another more then God worketh by them as the instruments of his goodness; but neither they themselves, which are as it were conduits, can have the least good in themselves, but what they have drawn from God alone as the only fountain and well-spring of goodness and felicity: Now he alone is sufficient for all, and bestoweth all things, because there must needs be some one first cause in nature of all good things: and he hath all things in his power, because, except he had them, he could not give them to others: and except he had them of himself, he could not be the first head and fountain of all good things.2 Object. 1. He is said to have made all things for himself. Ans. Not for the aiding or increasing of himself,3