4 For what cause euerlasting life is giuen.
THE impellent or motiue cause of euerlasting life giuen vnto vs, is the alone free mercy of God. (For a good thing doth
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.
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- 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.
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- Ursinus, Zacharias, 1534-1583.
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- At Oxford :: Printed by Ioseph Barnes, & are to be sold [by T. Cooke, London,] in Pauls Churchyard at the signe of the Tygres head,
- 1587.
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- Theology, Doctrinal -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A14216.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024.
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communicate it selfe and make others partakers of it) and his loue towardes mankinde: And he will that euerlasting life bee giuen vs, and himselfe giueth the same vnto vs, for the alone intercession and merit of Christ imputed vnto vs, by the comming and interposing whereof gods mercy is more illustrated and manifested than without it. But no work of man either foreseene in vs, or present, is the cause of this eternall life, whereunto notwithstanding wee are brought by many meanes. Before the beginning of eter∣nal life, our woorkes merit eternall death: after the begin∣ning thereof, all our woorkes are effectes thereof: and no∣thing is cause of it selfe. The final cause, or end, for which eter∣nal life is giuen vs, is, that the mercy of God might be acknowled∣ged and magnified of vs. Eph. 1.6. To the praise of the glorie of his grace, wherewith hee hath made vs accepted in his beloued. For the same cause God giueth vs eternall life, for which hee chose vs.
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God of his ••ree mercy giueth vs for Christs sake euerlasting life, that wee might praise and mag∣nifie the same his mercy for euer.