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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.
1. What the name Jesus signifieth.
The question touching the name Jesus, concerneth not so much the Etymology and peculiar sense which this name importeth, but especially respecteth the office of the Son of God therein implied. The word Jesus (in Greek [Greek or Hebrew],1 and in Hebrew Jehoscuah or Jescuah) signifieth a Saviour and Author of safety: which Name God himself gave unto the Mediator 0166 0 in the new testament. This true Etymon or original signification of this word is assigned by the Angel, saying: For he shall save his people from their sins. 2The Son of God therefore is called Jesus, in respect of his office, by an excellency: 1. In that he is our Mediator, who saveth and delivereth from the evils both of crime and punishment. 2. And that alone. 3. Yea, and most perfectly: whether we respect the number of these evils, he delivereth us from them all; or the degrees of them, he hath utterly annihilated the greatest, yea, and smallest portion of them. And the salvation which he tendereth unto us, is righteousness, and life everlasting.3 This is gathered out of his very name, because he hath not a bare title without the thing it self, but farther therewith performeth and executeth the office of a Mediator. Object. Many others were called by the Name Jesus, and were Saviours of their People; as for example, Joshua the Captain of Israel, and divers other: Therefore from this name it is not necessarily argued and enforced, that Christ only is our Saviour. Answ. Others had this name, because they were typical Saviours, prefiguring and resembling this true Saviour. Repl. Yea, but the Parents of Joshua, when they gave their young Infant this name, could not so much as suspect that by him should come the delivery of the people of Israel: Answ. What then? yet GOD knew, and thereupon so directed their wills, that they should call him Joshua. Now there is a great difference between those other, and this our Jesus.4