The summe of Christian religion: deliuered by Zacharias Vrsinus in his lectures vpon the Catechism autorised by the noble Prince Frederick, throughout his dominions: wherein are debated and resolued the questions of whatsoeuer points of moment, which haue beene or are controuersed in diuinitie. Translated into English by Henrie Parrie, out of the last & best Latin editions, together with some supplie of wa[n]ts out of his discourses of diuinitie, and with correction of sundrie faults & imperfections, which ar [sic] as yet remaining in the best corrected Latine.

1. WHAT IS, TO BE VNITED IN NATVRE.

FIRST, Those thinges are saide to bee vnited in nature or Essence, which as essentiall partes are coupled to the ful perfection or constitution of one nature or essence, or kinde, that is, which make a perfect and whole essence or kinde, and are one essence or substaunce. So the soule and bodie are vnited to constitute or make the kinde or essence, or nature of man: that is, are some one and perfect man. Whatsoeuer thinges then are essentiall partes of a perfect thing, they are saide to bee vnited in na∣ture, and vnto or into one nature. Secondly, those things also are saide to bee vnited in nature or essence, which are one in nature, essence, or kinde, or which are one essence, or of one essence and nature, or haue one common-essence, or vnitie of nature, or are ioined and agree in one essence. So two men are saide to bee vnited in nature, that is, are one in kinde, or of the same humane nature. The three persons of the God-head are vnited in essence, that is, are one in Essence, or are of one and the same diuine essence, in number, or haue the same Godhead in common.

So likewise, To bee vnited in properties or perfections na∣turall or essentiall, is to gette or haue the same, or like equall properties essentiall. Which is indeede nothing else than to bee made, and bee one nature, or moe substaunces of the same nature and essence. So two men are vnited in naturall properties and perfections, because they haue the same in kinde, or the like, and therefore are of the same hu∣mane

nature. The Aire in the Chimney, which get∣teth the perfections or qualities of the fier, as beeing nowe become a flame; and the fier of the burning coales which fiereth and inflameth the Aire next vnto it, are two substaunces of the same properties and fie∣rie nature, and therefore are saide to bee vnited in nature and essentiall properties, that is, they are two fiers in number, but in kinde and nature they are one. Likewise the three diuine persons are vnited in essenti∣al properties, that is, haue the same essentiall proper∣ties: which is nothing else, but that they are one essence, one and the same God.