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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.
for if he hath created all things of nothing, he is able also to preserve us, and to hinder the attempts of the wicked, yea, to bring them to nothing.
1God created all things most wisely, very good, that is, every thing in their kind and degree perfect: All things were very good. Wherefore God was not the cause of sin or deformity, but sin came into the world by man. Object. Death is evil. Likewise it is said, There is an evil which the Lord hath not done. Answ. 1. God at the first creation made all things good: the evil both of crime or offence, and of pain and punishment ensued upon mans disobedience. 2. Death and calamities are evil, in respect of the creature which suffereth them, and in the judgement of flesh: but they are good, in respect of God, who justly inflicteth them for sin, and doth purge out that sin in the godly by chastisements. Wherefore, after the fall of man, God was the author of pains and punishments, because he is the Judge of the world, and because they are in a respect good: but sin he doth not cause, but only permit.
1God created all things most wisely, very good, that is, every thing in their kind and degree perfect: All things were very good. Wherefore God was not the cause of sin or deformity, but sin came into the world by man. Object. Death is evill. Likewise it is said, There is an evill which the Lord hath not done. Answ. 1. God at the first creation made all things good: the evill both of crime or offence, and of pain and punishment ensued upon mans disobedience. 2. Death and calamities are evill, in respect of the creature which suffereth them, and in the judgement of flesh: but they are good, in respect of God, who justly inflicteth them for sin, and doth purge out that sin in the godly by chastisements. Wherefore, after the fall of man, God was the authour of pains and punishments, because hee is the Judge of the world, and because they are in a respect good: but sin hee doth not cause, but only permit.