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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.
1Chaste.) There is made also mention of Chastity in the former description of God, because amongst his especial and most notable differences, whereby he may be discerned from devils, he will have truth to be, and chastity: for as God will be acknowledged to be true, and will have truth loved of us, that it may certainly appear that he is, and what he is, and that men may think and speak the truth of him, and through his knowledge be partakers of everlasting life; so the devil attempteth to fill the world with lies; that he may both darken the glory of God, and, by forging lies of God, destroy mankind. Whereupon the holy Ghost is called the Spirit of truth; 2but the devil a liar and murderer from the beginning, and the father of lies. And as God, both by reason of the exceeding purity of his nature, 3as also because he will have the spousal love and conjunction of marriage to be the image of the unspeakable love and spiritual conjunction between him and the Church, will therefore have it accounted sacred and holy amongst men; and as in these respects he is the lover and author of chastity, and doth most severely detest and punish all uncleanness, both internal and external, which is repugnant to this order; as the examples of the Sodomites, of the tribe of Benjamin, and others of all other ages and nations testify: So the devil (both for his impurity, and also because whatsoever God would have held most holy and venerable, that (for the hatred he beareth to God) he studieth most to deprave, and most foully to deform) endeavoureth with obscenity and filthiness horribly to pollute mankind, and to withdraw them from God. Therefore it is said, This is the will of God, even your sanctification, 4and that you should abstain from fornication, that every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in holiness and honour.
1Chaste.) There is made also mention of Chastity in the former description of God, because amongst his especiall and most notable differences, whereby he may be discerned from divels, he will have truth to be, and chastity: for as God will be acknowledged to be true, and will have truth loved of us, that it may certainly appear that hee is, and what he is, and that men may think and speak the truth of him, and through his knowledge be partakers of everlasting life; so the divell attempteth to fill the world with lies; that hee may both darken the glory of God, and, by forging lies of God, destroy mankind. Whereupon the holy Ghost is called the Spirit of truth;