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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
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Object. 3. All motion before which was quietness or a ceasing of mutation, hath another motion going before it, whereby is removed the cause of that quietness or let of mutation: But they say, that according to our assertion, there is put a quietness before the first motion that ever was in the nature of things: Therefore there must be some motion or mutation whereby the cause of that quietness was taken away; and so there shall be no mutation which may be said to be the first. 1Answ. The Major is true of the mutation and intercourse of things now begun after the creation, but not of the original of those mutations and changes which we now see in the world: for the let and stay of them was in the will of God only; which is not taken away; but being the same, and standing immovable from everlasting to everlasting, beginneth and effecteth the beginnings, and ends, and mutations, or motions of things, and also quietness or cessation, and a continuance in the same state, most freely, and without any mutation or change of himself. Seeing then this his divine will alone beginneth the motion and mutation of things without second causes, as he did in the creation of the world; it was not only not necessary, but not so much as possible, by reason of the eternity and immutability of the divine will, that there should be any other motion before the original and beginning of the motions and mutations of nature. For God will from everlasting to everlasting, that all should then begin to have their moving, mutation, and being when this beginning was made. There is therefore an ambiguity in the word quietness: 2for we grant the Major, as concerning that quietness which signifieth a privation in the subject: that is taken away by re-entry of motion: but the Major is false, if it mean such a quietness as is an absolute denial of the being of motion: this is taken away not by motion, but by the will of God, which alone, without second causes and any motion, beginneth motion.
Object. 3. All motion before which was quietnesse or a ceasing of mutation, hath another motion going before it, whereby is removed the cause of that quietnesse or let of mutation: But they say, that according to our assertion, there is put a quietnesse before the first motion that ever was in the nature of things: Therefore there must be some motion or mutation whereby the cause of that quietnesse was taken away; and so there shall be no mutation which may be said to be the first.