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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
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6 For what cause no doctrine besides the holy Scripture is to be received in the Church.
1Whereas it appeareth unto us, that it is the word of God, which the Prophets and Apostles have left in writing: there is no man which doth not see, that the Scripture must be the rule & square, by which all things, which are taught & done in the Church, must be tried. Now all things, of which there useth to rise questions in the Christian Church, do appertain either unto doctrine, or unto discipline and ceremonies. That the word of God ought to be the rule unto both sorts, it is out of doubt. But in this place we speak of the doctrine of the Church, which consisteth in the sentences ⟨p. 13⟩and decrees, which we are bound by the commandment of god to believe or obey; and therefore they cannot be changed by the authority of any creature; and they are become obnoxious unto the wrath of God, whosoever submit not themselves in faith and obedience unto them. To these decrees and precepts the Papists add many sentences, which not only are no where delivered in Scripture, but are repugnant unto it; and they contend, That the Church or the Bishops have authority of decreeing, yea, contrary and besides the Scripture, what the Church must believe or do: and that mens consciences are bound by those decrees, no less then by the words of the holy Scripture, to believe or obey. Contrariwise, we believe and confess, That no doctrine is to be proposed unto the Church, not only if it be repugnant unto the holy Scripture, but if it be not contained in it. And whatsoever either is not by the express testimony of the holy Scripture delivered, or doth not consequently follow out of the words of the Scripture rightly understood that we hold, may be without hurt of conscience believed or not believed changed, abrogated, and omitted.2 For, we must ever hold a necessary difference between the books of the Prophets and Apostles, and the writings and doctrine of others in the Church.§1