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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.
Repl. 2. He that willeth and worketh an action, which is in it self sin, willeth and worketh sins: 1God willeth those actions, which in themselves are horrible sins; as are the heinous offences of Absalom, the lying of the Prophets, the cruelty of the Assyrians making waste of Jury: Therefore God willeth and worketh sin. Answ. The Major is true of one, who worketh an action which is sin, and disagreeth from the law of God in respect of his will, 2who worketh it; and is not true of others: but the Assyrians actions, and of others fining, which God effectually would, were sins, not in respect of the will of God, but of the will of the men themselves sinning: For, though God would the same thing; yet he would it not in the same sort that they. But that this answer, as also the former, may be the better understood, & may be with greater certainty opposed against the like sophisms, which humane reason in great number frowardly wresteth against Gods providence, this general rule is to be observed, the truth whereof is manifest, and the use great in Philosophy, both Natural, and Moral, as also in Divinity. One and the same work or action, 3or effect in subject or matter, is in consideration, manner, and form made most diverse, good and bad, according to the diversity of the causes both efficient and final. For, in consideration and respect of a good cause, it is good: in respect of a bad cause, bad: and a good cause is in it self a cause of good; by an accident a cause, of an evil and bad effect, or vice, which is inherent and remaining in the effect, by reason of a bad and vicious cause, concurring in the producing of that effect: and contrary, a bad and evil cause is in it self a cause of evil; but by an accident, of good: which good is in the effect, by reason of a good cause concurring there-with to the producing of that effect. Now then, whatsoever God doth, cannot be but most good, and most just: seeing both himself is most good, and hath no scope or ends of his counsels and works, but such as are most good, always agreeing with his nature and Law: namely, his glory, and the safety ⟨p. 211⟩and salvation of his chosen. But the creatures action is then good, when both themselves are good, and have a good end proposed unto them of their action: