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.

9 Wherefore the holy Ghost is necessarie.

HOW necessarie and needefull the Holy Ghost is, and for what causes, doth clearely appeare by these places of Scripture. Ioh. 3.5. Except that a man be borne of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdome of Heauen. 1. Cor. 15.50. Flesh & bloud cannot inherit the kingdome of God. 2. Cor. 3.5. Wee are not sufficient of our selues to thinke anie thing, as of our selues; but our sufficiencie is of God. Hence we may thus conclude: without whom we cannot thinke, much lesse doe ought, that is good, and without whom we can neither be regenerated, nor know God, neither attain vnto the inhe∣taunce of the celestiall kingdome; without him we cannot be saued. But without the holy Ghost these things cannot

be done, by reason of the corruption & blindnes of our na∣ture. Therefore without the holy Ghost it cannot be, that we should be saued, & so it followeth that he is altogether necessarie for vs vnto saluation.