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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.
Reasons drawn from the properties or nature of God.
1There is a God: Therefore there is providence. For, that God should not rule and govern the world created by him, hath flat repugnancy with the nature of God, (for the world can no more consist without God, then be created without him) and they who deny providence, deny God to be God, and take away all religion.§2 2He is omnipotent, who hath all things so in his own power, that with every thing he may do what he will, and without his will nothing can be done: But God is omnipotent: Therefore he hath the whole nature of things in his power, and effectually moveth and governeth all things at his own pleasure.§3 3It is the property of a wise governor to let nothing of that which he hath in his power to be done without his will and counsel: God is most wise, and hath all things in his power, and is present with them: Nothing therefore is done in the world without Gods providence.§4 4God is most just, and Judge of the world: Therefore he, in ruling the world, giveth rewards unto the good, and inflicteth punishments upon the wicked.§5 5God is most good: But that which is most good is most communicable: Therefore as God of his infinite goodness created the world, to the end he might communicate himself unto it; so by the same his goodness doth he preserve, administer, and rule the world created.