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H. Zanchius his confession of Christian religion Which now at length being 70. years…H. Zanchius his confession of Christian religion Which novve at length being 70. yeares…
H. Zanchius his confession of Christian religion Which now at length being 70. years of age, he caused to be published in the name of himself & his family. Englished in sense agreeable, and in words as answerable to his own latin copy, as in so grave a mans work is requisite: for the profit of all the unlearneder sort, of English christians, that desire to know his judgement in matters of faith.H. Zanchius his confession of Christian religion Which novve at length being 70. yeares of age, he caused to bee published in the name of himselfe & his family. Englished in sense agreeable, and in words as answerable to his ovvne latine copie, as in so graue a mans worke is requisite: for the profite of all the vnlearneder sort, of English christians, that desire to know his iudgement in matters of faith.
Cambridge: printed by John Legat, 1599Cambridge: printed by Iohn Legat, 1599
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Neither can any be truly said to be raised ⟨p. 392⟩and to rise from the dead, unless the same be truly said to be dead and to have died. But death consisteth in a true separation of the soul from the body, whereby the body which dieth may presently be rightly called a dead carcass. Christ then if he truly rose from the dead, it can by no means be denied, but that he also truly died, his soul being truly separated from his body.
Neither can any bee truely said to be raised ⟨p. 392⟩and to rise from the dead, vnlesse the same bee truely said to be dead and to haue died. But death consisteth in a true separation of the soule frō the bodie, whereby the body which dieth may presently bee rightly called a dead carkasse. Christ then if he truely rose from the dead, it can by no meanes be denied, but that he also truely died, his soule being truely separated from his bodie.
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If then (sith he truly died) neither his soul for that time of his death was in his body, neither (sith he was truly buried) his body while it hung upon the cross, was in the grave, or while it lay in the grave, hung upon the cross; neither sith God truly raised him from the dead) either his soul recalled his body, or his body recalled himself from death to life: therefore the humane nature in Christ was neither omnipotent, nor every where present in it own substance.