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The Summe of Christian Religion

1587 · 207 entries

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By

Zacharias Ursinus

Dates

first published 1587

Tradition

reformed

Also called

The Summe of Christian Religion … Deliuered by Zacharias Vrsinus in his Lectures vpon the Catechism; Doctrinae Christianae Compendium; Ursinus’s Lectures on the Heidelberg Catechism

Follows

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 wants out of his Discourses of Diuinitie, and with correction of sundrie faults & imperfections, which ar as yet remaining in the best corrected Latine, the first edition of Parry’s translation, printed by Joseph Barnes, sold in Paul’s Churchyard at the sign of the Tiger’s Head, 1587 (Huntington Library) (Oxford); STC 24532, ESTC S118924 · the scan (PDF) , from ProQuest

Transcribed

From EEBO-TCP A14216Checked against a copy at ProQuest: every page of the catechism (pp. 1–2, 58–59, 204–224 and 811–824), word by word, with every margin reference and where each proof letter stands; every heading; and twenty-five pages drawn at random, word by word; every reference the importer couldn’t read, or read out of the Bible, by Claude, for cco3, 2026-10-30

License

Public domain

Notes

Zacharias Ursinus (1534–1583), the Heidelberg Catechism’s chief author, lectured on it at Heidelberg; his students’ notes of the lectures were printed in Latin from 1584 (Doctrinae Christianae Compendium), and Henry Parry (1561–1616), then of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, later bishop of Worcester, put them into English as The Summe of Christian Religion, “out of the last & best Latin Editions”, in 1587, the first of many English printings (David Pareus’s enlarged edition, in English from 1645, is EEBO-TCP A64611). It prints the catechism in four runs (questions 1–2; 3–11, the misery of man; 12–85, his deliverance; 86–129, his thankfulness), each followed by Ursinus’s lectures on it in common places, which ask their own chief questions (“1 What sinne is”) and answer objections. Each of the 129 questions is an entry, as Parry prints it, its answer cut at the proof letters into segments, the letters’ references the proofs; each common place (78 of them, with the openings of the parts) is an entry whose text is Markdown, its margin notes footnotes, on the questions it treats, set by its subject; each entry’s part is the book’s part. The dedication to the Earl of Pembroke and Parry’s epistle to the reader are prose/; the title page and the table of common places are left out. Imported from EEBO-TCP A14216 by scripts/import-tcp.mjs (--kind commentary --on heidelberg --lectures --italic-j), keeping its spelling and its marks for what it couldn’t read (•, 〈◊〉, ▪, and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 for Greek and Hebrew), but where the scan was read. EMENDATIONS.md gives the conventions, which questions each lecture is on, and every correction: the TCP’s misreadings and gaps, and the printing’s references that can’t be right. The PDF is ProQuest’s scan of EEBO’s film of the Huntington copy, the TCP’s film, with ProQuest’s credit line taken off each image; archive.org’s film catalogued as this printing (bim_early-english-books-1475-1640_the-summe-of-christian-r_ursinus-zacharias_1587) is the edition of 1591.

On

Heidelberg Catechism (1563)

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