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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.
And because in things created, especially in humane affairs, there is a great uncertainty and mutability, neither is there any cause of unchangeableness but the will of God; God could not have appointed any thing certain or unchangeable concerning the event and end, except he had also made all the means (by which the end is attained unto, and which, as concerning their own nature, are most certain and unchangeable) by his everlasting counsel and decree certain and unchangeable.1 Wherefore it is said, The Lord of hosts hath determined it, and who shall disannul it. §32The whole use, and force, and declaration of the promises, threatenings, and examples of Gods goodness, power justice, mercy, and wrath both old and new, to teach us, and to erect us with comfort, or by fear to hold and keep us in our duty and the fear of God, dependeth on Gods unchangeable nature: for all those do then affect us, when we think that the same nature and will of God which was in times past, is now also, and will be such to us repenting or persisting in our sins, as we see it was in times past, and now is towards others. And then do we truly rely upon the promises of God, when we know that his counsel shall never be changed.§4 3This doctrine inclineth mens minds to obedience and subjection, which is necessary in asking things at Gods hands: that we desire not God to do those things for us, or others, which he hath before-time assuredly told us that he will not do: and further, that we submit, and leave with reverence those things to his pleasure, whereof he would not as yet have known unto us what he hath decreed. ⟨p. 159⟩§54The unchangeableness of Gods will is the ground and foundation of the hope and comfort of the godly in this life: for it is most absurd to conceive of God, that now he loveth, and now he hateth us; now he will assuredly give unto us everlasting life, and a little after again he will not.