Author
Zacharias Ursinus
1534–1583
Student of Calvin and Melanchthon. Primary author of the Heidelberg Catechism.
From Learned Discourses
SInce by advise of your regents and overseers in study, I haue beene wished to deliuer vnto you some short summe of Christianity, I must acknowledge my weakenesse farre vnable to support a burden of such waight. For this is a doctrine ever past vnderstanding not only of the most wise and sharpe-sighted of this worlde (vnlesse instructed by the voice of the Church and power of the holy Spirit) but for a great part vnknowen even to the Angels themselues, vntill it pleased the sonne of God to reveale it out of the deepe wisedome of his eternal father, which if all p. 59 the wits and tongues of men and angels shoulde straine themselues to vnfold and grace with curiosity of stile and depth of invention, they coulde never be able to speake any thing correspondent to the dignity and deserte of so diuine a subiect. Being therefore…
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Works in the Library 2
Learned Discourses 1600
Ursinus's collected theological discourses explain difficult doctrinal points from his catechism, providing English readers comprehensive guidance on Reformed Christian belief and practice.
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Commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism 1888
Ursinus provides detailed theological commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism, clarifying Reformed doctrine and offering authoritative interpretation of this foundational Protestant confession.
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1 Corinthians 5:76×
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1 Corinthians 4:74×
1 Corinthians 5:54×
1 Corinthians 10:164×
1 Corinthians 12:134×
1 John 3:84×
1 John 5:74×
Ephesians 1:44×
Genesis 2:174×
John 3:54×
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