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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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1God created all things of nothing, not of a pre-existent or fore-being matter: nor of the essence of God, nor any matter co-eternal with God: for if God created all things, nothing then is excepted besides the Creator himself; no not the matter whereof ⟨p. 186⟩all the rest were framed. Object. That which is produced out of some pre-existent thing, is not created: Man was produced out of a pre-existent thing, the earth, and the rib: Therefore he was not created. But this is false; for the Scripture saith, that God created man: 2Therefore creation is not a production of a thing out of nothing. Ans. The Major is not simply true, because those things also are said to be created, whose matter whereof they came is of nothing. Man therefore was made of nothing, not immediately, but mediately, by reason of his matter, not the last, but the first matter: for this at the beginning had a beginning from nothing, and out of it afterwards diverse kinds of things were formed. To this reason also that may be added, namely, that that production also is called creation, whereby a thing which was not before, is made suddenly, without any motion, by the commandment of God only, out of a matter indeed, but yet such as hath no definite power in it self of producing any thing. Such a production being no natural generation, and being after a sort not out of any matter, is rightly called in the Scripture Creation. Wherefore it followeth not. Some creation is not of nothing immediately, neither of that which is simply no matter: Therefore no creation is of nothing: for creation properly called, is a production of a thing out of nothing. Object. 2. Of nothing is made nothing. Ans. This principle and rule is true, as concerning that order which was appointed by God in nature now created. Further, by such an agent as is created it self, nothing is made of nothing: but that which is impossible to a creature, is possible to God the Creator. Therefore that principle of the Philosophers, Of nothing is made nothing, is to be understood, not of God, but of men, nor of the first creation or extraordinary working of God; but of that order which is instituted in nature now created. And it appertaineth to our comfort, that God hath created all things of nothing: