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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
Title page: Internet Archive scan of the Early English Books microfilm
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.
1. What good Angels are.
Angels, both good and bad, as holy Scripture records, are spirits: 1by which name here a spiritual person is understood; that is, a substance incorporeal, invisible, individual, living, understanding, incommunicable, not sustained in another, neither part of another: as, A spirit hath not flesh and bones. All which are in heaven and in earth, things visible and invisible. They are all ministering spirits. There came forth a spirit, and stood before the Lord. That therefore both in times past there appeared oftentimes good Angels, when as the gathering and establishing of the Church, the doctrine of God being not as yet plainly delivered, and the prophecies not fulfilled, needed more extraordinary and miraculous revelations then now; and now adays also not seldom appear bad Angels: this 1. doth not prove their nature to be visible or corporeal. For those visible shapes or bodies which may be seen or felt, are divers substances from the incorporeal essence of spirits, being formed either of nothing, or of some matter, and carried and moved by a spirit for a time, for the working and performing of certain actions. For, both they put them off and lay them away again, and also they take forms of divers sorts and kinds; as, The serpent, by whom the Devil communed with Eve: Mens bodies, 2whose feet Abraham washed: A flame in the bush appearing to Moses: A pillar of cloud and fire in the desert: Horses and chariots of fire. And further, this very thing refuteth the opinion of the Sadducees, Who said, that there was neither Angel nor spirit: but that good Angels are cogitations and motions raised by God in men, or happy events proceeding from God: and bad Angels, evil and wandering affections, or lusts, or purposes and devices which come of the corruption of nature: For, except they were living substances, and forcible in working, they would not assume, carry, and move bodies and visible shapes. Moreover, the Scripture attributeth many things to them every where, which agree not but to natures subsisting by themselves, living and understanding: for the good Angels were those ministers,