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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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By those sayings it evidently appeareth, that either Christ spake not of the real presence of his body, but only of the presence of his deity, and power of his spirit: or that he is present to us in the same manner that he was to the Apostles, namely visibly: seeing he said not I will be, but I am: neither is there any necessity to alter the sense of those words.
By those sayings it evidently appeareth, that either Christ spake not of the reall presēce of his body, but onely of the presence of his diety, and power of his spirit: or that he is present to vs in the same manner that he was to the Apostles, namely visibly: seeing he saide not I will be, but I am: neither is there any necessity to alter the sense of those wordes.
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Add this, that if he speak of the same real presence of his body, and that this promise pertained not to the Apostles only, but also to all the faithful which were then in the world: Christ had not spoken a trueth. For he was not before his death or after his Resurrection, present in a visible presence with all the faithful, which were then in the ⟨p. 406⟩