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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.
1The punishments of the enemies. For without doubt, that Religion is allowed and advanced by God, whose adversaries God punisheth for oppugning and withstanding it. But histories both old and new have registered and recorded the dreadful and heavy punishments inflicted by God on them who resisted the doctrine of the Prophets and Apostles: Therefore God countenanceth and authoriseth that doctrine. Now, although the wicked sometimes flourish in this world, and the Church lieth trodden under foot, yet the end and event testifieth, yea and Scripture teacheth, that this is a work of Gods providence, and no casualty or accident, neither is God therefore more pleased with them, or displeased with his Church. For the Church is always preserved even amidst her persecutions, and is at length delivered; whereas the short felicity of Tyrants and wicked Imps hath a most doleful and eternal destruction following it. Neither is thereby the force of this proof weakened, because that all the persecutors of the Church are not in tragical manner punished in this life, as were Antiochus, Herod, and the rest. For, whiles God doth take vengeance on most of them in this life, he doth sufficiently show what he would have to be thought of the rest of their complices; verily, that they are his enemies, whom, without they repent, he will plunge into eternal plagues, the beginning and feeling of the which is desperation, in which all the enemies of Christian Religion end their days,2 yea they who are not oppressed with any other calamities of this life. To conclude, that it may be manifest, that they are not only for other transgressions punished of God, God doth so often denounce in his word, that such shall be the ends of his enemies,3 and that for this very cause, because they go about to extinguish the people, and true worship of God. Yea, furthermore they are not a few, from whom, while they lie in torments, their conscience wresteth out this confession, that they have drawn these miseries upon themselves, by persecuting the godly: as from Antiochus Epiphanes, and Julian the Apostate. And since that all the adversaries of the Church in their calamities and death are destitute of comfort, it is manifest, that they suffer as the enemies of God; and therefore are far from true Religion.