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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.
To those testimonies of Scripture which ratify Gods providence in such necessary events, as depend on his decree revealed in his word, those places also may be added, which confirm the resurrection and raising again from the dead of those bodies, which we carry about with us in this life: as, Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, 1according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself. This corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mor•all must put on immortality. For seeing we see the substance of our bodies to be so many ways changed and scattered after death, when as they are mouldered into dust; it followeth therefore necessarily, that there is a providence of God, which taketh a most strait and exact care even of the smallest dust, whereby the substance of out bodies so often altered and dissipated into infinite forms and parts, is again in such wise to be recollected, gathered together, and reduced to their first mass and form, as that not other, but the self same bodies which we have in this life, shall rise again. Against these places of Scripture alleged, some make exception, That the examples whereof these places speak, are particular and prophetical events, administered by the special counsel of God and that therefore there may not be framed a general rule universally extending to all events. But against these we return a threefold answer: For, 1. The like causes are found in all events, for which the Scripture affirmeth those events afore recited to have been done, or to be done by the counsel and decree of God: namely, the glory of God, and the safety of his chosen. The causes therefore of all events being like, we are to judge alike of all. For all wise men confess, that a general is well gathered out of the enumeration or numbering of many singulars or particulars, then, when as there cannot be alleged any different or unlike example. Neither doth any of the godly, and such as conceive aright of the immeasurable wisdom of God, deny, that God hath most good reason for all things which are done, albeit they are not known to us, whereby all things are referred to those two last ends.
To those testimonies of Scripture which ratifie Gods providence in such necessary events, as depend on his decree revealed in his word, those places also may be added, which confirme the resurrection and raising again from the dead of those bodies, which we carry about with us in this life: as, Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body,