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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.
3. Whence it may appear that there is but one God.
1Albeit God in the beginning did as certainly declare unto mankind, that he is but one only, as what he is: yet the world, by the guile and deceit of the devil (going about to spoil God of his honour, and to bear and vaunt himself for God, and to destroy mankind for the hatred he beareth unto God) and through their own blindness and malice revolting from Gods divine manifestations, and from the doctrine of our first fathers, have in horrible madness forged a multitude of gods, yielding divine honours partly to creatures, partly to imaginary gods, and forgetting the true God, or desiring to join and couple other gods with him. And whereas there is no greater bond then whereby the creature is bound to honour the Creator; and therefore no more grievous sin then to obscure the glory due unto God, or to convey it over to any other: God, that he might meet with this sacrilege, hath often testified and witnessed in his word, That there is but one God, not many; that is, that there is but one divine Essence, eternal, of infinite power, wisdom and goodness, Creator, Preserver, and Ruler of all things. And this is proved,2 first, by express testimonies of Scripture: Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is Lord only. Behold now, for I am he, and there is no god with me. I am the first, and I am the last, and without me there is no God. We know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one. One Lord, one faith, one God and Father of all. One God, one Mediator between God and man, which is the man Christ Jesus. The like proofs hereof may be read, Deut. 4.35. Psalm 18.31. Isa. 37.16. & 45.21.