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Category: Ursinus

  • Ursinus Catechisms on the Second Commandment

    I’ve already provided some much more detailed commentary from Zacharias Ursinus on the second commandment (link to commentary). The following selections are taken from Ursinus’ Large and Small Catechisms, respectively. A harmony of Ursinus’ catechisms and the Heidelberg Catechism can be found here (link). It’s worth noting that Ursinus was an author of the Heidelberg…

  • Zacharias Ursinus on the Second Commandment

    The following is an excerpt from Zacharias Ursinus’ Commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism (link to book). THIRTY-FIFTH LORD’S DAY. Question 96. What does God require in the second command? Answer. That we in nowise represent God by images, nor worship him in any other way than he has commanded in his word. EXPOSITION. Two things…

  • Temporary Faith – Zacharias Ursinus

    Temporary faith is an assent to the doctrines of the church, accompanied with profession and joy, but not with a true and abiding joy, such as arises from a consciousness that we are the objects of the divine favor, but from some other cause, whatever it may be, so that it endures only for a…