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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.
For although the destruction be evil in respect of the creature who suffereth it, yet it is good in respect of the law and order of divine justice exacting it, and in respect of God most justly inflicting it, and executing as it were the proper and peculiar work of the Judge of the world. Object. 1. God made not death. Answ. True, not before sin,1 when he created all things. Object. 2. Thy destruction is of thy self, Israel. Ans. True,2 as concerning the desert; but as concerning the effecting or inflicting of their punishments, it is from God. Object. 3. He will not death. Ans. 3He will not death with a desire of destroying, or that he delighteth in the destruction, vexation, or perdition of his creature; neither would he it, or would effect or cause it, if it were nothing else but a destruction and perdition. But he willeth it, and worketh it, and delighteth in it, as it is the punishment of sin, and the execution of his justice,4 or the delivery of his Church, or a chastisement, or trial, or martyrdom, or ransom. Obj. 4. He will ⟨p. 200⟩that all men shall be saved. 1 Tim. 2.2, 4. 2 Pet. 3.9. Ans. All men, that is, all sorts of men: For out of all sorts of men he chooseth his chosen.
For although the destruction be evill in respect of the creature who suffereth it, yet it is good in respect of the law and order of divine justice exacting it, and in respect of God most justly inflicting it, and executing as it were the proper and peculiar work of the Judge of the world. Object. 1. God made not death. Answ. True, not before sin,1 when he created all things. Object. 2. Thy destruction is of thy selfe, Israel. Ans. True,