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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.
1As for that which some men say, that the Church is ancienter then the Scriptures, and therefore of greater authority, it is too trifling. For the Word of God is the everlasting wisdom in God himself. Neither was the knowledge of it then first manifested unto the Church, when it was committed to writing, but the manifesting of it began together with the creation of mankind, and the first beginnings of the Church in Paradise: yea, the Word is that immortal seed, of which the Church was borne.
1As for that which some men say, that the Church is ancienter then the Scriptures, and therefore of greater authority, it is too trifling. For the Word of God is the everlasting wisdome in God himselfe. Neither was the knowledge of it then first manifested unto the Church, when it was committed to writing, but the manifesting of it began together with the creation of mankind, and the first beginnings of the Church in Paradise: yea, the Word is that immortall seed, of which the Church was borne.
- 13 Object. The Church is more ancient then the Scripture. 1 Ans. The Minor is false.
The Church therefore could not be, except the word were first delivered. Now when we name the holy Scripture,1 we mean not so much the characters of the letters, and the volumes; but rather the sentences which are contained in them, which they shall never be able to prove to be of less antiquity then the Church. For albeit they were repeated and declared often after the beginning of the gathering of the Church:2 yet the sum of the Law and Gospel was the same for ever.
The Church therefore could not be, except the word were first delivered. Now when we name the holy Scripture,