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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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For what (to say something for example fake) can be more firm, certain, & manifestly spoken, ⟨p. 13⟩for the article in the creed, of the person of Christ: then those things which we•e determined out of the scriptures in the cou•cel at Nice, at Ephesus. Constant. Chalced. add also the 5. & 6. by the godly fathers against Arrius, Samosatenus, Apollinaris, Nestorius, Eutiches, the Monothelites? whosoever therefore, teacheth concerning Christs person against the determinations of those councils: certainly they do not rightly hold this principal foundation of christian religion.
For what (to say something for exāple fake) can be more firme, certen, & manifestly spoken, ⟨p. 13⟩for the article in the creede, of the person of Christ: then those things which we•e determined out of the scriptures in the cou•cel at Nice, at Ephesus. Constant. Chalced. add also the 5. & 6. by the godly fathers against Arrius, Samosatenus, Apollinaris, Nestorius, Eutiches, the Monothelites? whosoeuer therefore, teacheth concerning Christs person against the determinations of those counsells: certainely they doe not rightly hold this principall foundation of christian religion.
Further concerning the grace & benefit of Christ: (the beginning whereof is his eternal love towards us, & his free election of us to the participation of redemption & everlasting life: but the proceeding of it is the free dispensation of the same redemption once performed upon the cross, the effectual vocation, justification, sanctification, & the gift of constancy in the faith: the end is, our glorious resurrection & even eternal life:) I say for this other principal foundation of christian religion, what can be said more plainly, & more largely, than that which hath bin in the councils of Africa, determined out of the scriptures, by Melivitanus, Arausicanus, & others against the Pelagians: & which were written by Augustine [to say nothing of others] in many books, against the same Pelagians.