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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.
The second Sophism, of the cause of sin.
The second Sophisme, of the cause of sinne.
Object. 1. All the actions and motions of all creatures are done by the will and working of God. Many actions (as the selling of Joseph, the Assyrians warring against the Jews) are sins: Therefore sins are done by the will and working of God, and by force of consequent, the opinion of universal providence maketh God the author of sin. Ans. There is a fallacy of the accident in the Minor proposition. Actions are sins, 1not in themselves, and as they are actions, but by an accident, by reason of the corruption of the instrument in those actions, which God worketh most justly by him, he not respecting this, as to obey therein the known will of God. This corruption or defect of the creature, and the action which God worketh by the creature, concur together by an accident. For neither is essential to other, neither the cause of other, but each is to other accidentary. For both God would have wrought that self same punishment, which he inflicted justly on the Jews by the Assyrians sinning, by an instrument not sinning: and the Assyrian, if it had pleased God to correct his will, might gave been notwithstanding the instrument of Gods wrath, and yet good, how great soever severity he had exercised toward the Jews: As when God by his good Angels slayeth the wicked host of the Assyrians. Sin therefore, which is in the actions of the creature, is not done by the will and working of God, but by an accident, to wit, as God willeth and worketh those actions, which are sins by the fault of the creature. The sum of all cometh to this: The good action of God, exercised by an evil and corrupt instrument, is no otherwise the sin of the bad instrument, than water which cometh pure out of the fountain, is made impure, running through unclean places: or the best wine coming out of a good vessel, waxeth sour and eager, being put in a corrupt vessel, according to that of Horace, Unless the vessel be pure,