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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.
There is alleged also to this purpose a place,1 where the Church is called the pillar and ground of the truth. But sith the Scripture doth teach other-where, and that not once, that the foundation of the Church is Christ and his word; it is manifest enough that the Church is the pillar of the truth: not a fundamental, or upholding pillar, but a ministerial, that is, a keeper and spreader of it abroad, and as it were a mansion place, or sure seat, which might carry the truth left with her, and committed unto her, in the open face of all mankind:2 even as the holy Apostle Paul was called an elect vessel, to bear the Name of God before the Gentiles and Kings: neither yet did Paul get credit unto the Gospel, but the Gospel unto Paul. So likewise are the Apostles termed pillars, not that the Church rested on their persons, but that they were the chief teachers of the Gospel, and as it were the Chieftains and Masters of doctrine: for a man is not bound to believe those that teach, on their bare word, but for the proofs which they bring of their doctrine.
There is alledged also to this purpose a place,1 where the Church is called the pillar and ground of the truth. But sith the Scripture doth teach other-where, and that not once, that the foundation of the Church is Christ and his word; it is manifest enough that the Church is the pillar of the truth: not a fundamentall, or upholding pillar, but a ministeriall, that is, a keeper and spreader of it abroad, and as it were a mansion place, or sure seat, which might carry the truth left with her, and committed unto her, in the open face of all mankind:2 even as the holy Apostle Paul was called an elect vessell, to beare the Name of God before the Gentiles and Kings: neither yet did Paul get credit unto the Gospel, but the Gospel unto Paul. So likewise are the Apostles termed pillars, not that the Church rested on their persons, but that they were the chiefe teachers of the Gospel, and as it were the Chieftaines and Masters of doctrine: for a man is not bound to beleeve those that teach, on their bare word, but for the proofes which they bring of their doctrine.