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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.
but they attribute many things to chance, fortune, and humane wisdom or virtue and so imagine the power of God to be idle in these, and doing nothing. Furthermore, That God cannot either sin, or will and allow of sin, or be changed, or diminished or suffer any thing, or make things done undone or will things flat repugnant and contradictory, or create another God, or some nature equal to himself, or be perceived by bodily senses, or do other things proper to a created or finite nature, or admit the same into himself; this doth not diminish or weaken, but rather augment and strengthen his power: For that is the greatest and most perfect power which can neither be destroyed, nor weakened, nor diminished; and that, none sustaining it, but only by it self. But contrariwise, to be able to be corrupted and impaired is a token of imbecility and imperfection.
but they attribute many things to chance, fortune, and humane wisdome or vertue and so imagine the power of God to be idle in these, and doing nothing. Furthermore, That God cannot either sin, or will and allow of sin, or be changed, or diminished or suffer any thing, or make things done undone or will things flat repugnant and contradictory, or create another God, or some nature equall to himselfe, or be perceived by bodily senses, or do other things proper to a created or finite nature, or admit the same into himselfe; this doth not diminish or weaken, but rather augment and strengthen his power: For that is the greatest and most perfect power which can neither be destroyed, nor weakened, nor diminished; and that, none sustaining it, but only by it selfe. But contrariwise, to be able to be corrupted and impaired is a token of imbecility and imperfection.
1Of exceeding and immense wisdom.) That we may rightly, and with profit and commodity know the power of God, it is necessary not to consider it but as it is joined with his immense wisdom and goodness, which moderateth it. Further, of his divine wisdom we learn, 1. That God doth of himself, in one act or view, under stand and behold perpetually and most perfectly. in marvellous manner, and that unknown to us, himself and the whole order of his mind declared in the nature of things, and in his