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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.
Object. 1. It is absurd (say the Philosophers) to imagine that God is idle. Ans. Nay rather, it is absurd to term him idle who administereth and ruleth the world. Repl. This I grant; but he could not govern the world, when as yet the world was not: Therefore the world not being created, 1he was idle. Ans. The consequence of this argument is denied: For God, before the creation of the world, did contemplate and behold from everlasting, his own wisdom; he begot the Son; from him flowed the holy Ghost; He chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world to everlasting life; he decreed to produce and create the world in time; and provided and prepared hell for curious seekers and searchers into the hidden and secret counsels of God; as Augustine prettily answered a certain African, demanding of him, what God did before the creating of the world. He made hell (saith he) for curious men, which rush and break into his secrets.
Object. 1. It is absurd (say the Philosophers) to imagine that God is idle. Ans. Nay rather, it is absurd to term him idle who administreth and ruleth the world. Repl. This I grant; but he could not govern the world, when as yet the world was not: Therefore the world not being created, 1he was idle. Ans. The consequence of this argument is denied: For God, before the creation of the world, did contemplate and behold from everlasting, his owne wisdome; hee begot the Son; from him flowed the holy Ghost; Hee chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world to everlasting life; hee decreed to produce and create the world in time; and provided and prepared hell for curious seekers and searchers into the hidden and secret counsels of God; as Augustine prettily answered a certain African, demanding of him, what God did before the creating of the world. He made hell (saith he) for curious men, which rush and break into his secrets.
- 1God not idle, before the creating of the world, but contemplating his own wisdom. Ephes. 1.4.God not idle, before the creating of the world, but contemplating his owne wisdome.