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…

Name: H. Zanchius his confession of Christian religion Which now at length being 70. years…
Author: Girolamo Zanchi

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.

Girolamo Zanchi 1516–1590Cambridge: printed by John Legat, 1599Cambridge: printed by Iohn Legat, 1599

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Confession › Chapter 11 › Aphorism 6: VI. The human nature was not taken, to make a new person in Christ, or to make perfe…Confession › Chapter 11 › Aphorism 6: VI. The humaine nature was not taken, to make a nevv person in Christ, or to make perfe…

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VI. The human nature was not taken, to make a new person in Christ, or to make perfect the former: but only to be coupled and united to his eternal and most perfect person.

VI. The humaine nature was not taken, to make a nevv person in Christ, or to make perfect the former: but onelie to be coupled and vnited to his eternall and most perfect person.

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For albeit we acknowledge two natures in Christ, the divine and human: yet we do not admit, that the human was therefore assumed, that either a new person, compounded of that & this, as of the parts, should be made in Christ: or that the former and the eternal person should be made the perfecter, by the coupling of a new nature: but only that mans nature being taken into unity of that most perfect and everlasting person, the son of God, remaining the same that he was, might be made that he was not; and might have what to offer unto his father for us. And therefore we do not simply allow it, if one say, so the person of Christ is compounded of the divine and human nature, as the person of a man consisteth of a soul and a body. But we allow the usual phrase in the church, that Christ clothed himself or was clothed with our flesh. Whereupon Augustine saith, Christ came down from heaven, as a naked man comes down a hill, but he went up again, clothed with our flesh, as with a garment. For this manner of speech, although it do not perfectly declare the personal union, ¹yet it showeth a manifest difference between the person of the son of god taking, and our nature taken. For this same cause we embrace those kinds of speeches of the Fathers, as mans nature was borne of the son of god: to subsist in the person of the son of God: and such like, separating the person of the son of god taking, from the nature taken: and teaching

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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…

VI. The human nature was not taken, to make a new person in Christ, or to make perfect the former: but only to be coupled and united to his eternal and most perfect person.

VI. The humaine nature was not taken, to make a nevv person in Christ, or to make perfect the former: but onelie to be coupled and vnited to his eternall and most perfect person.

VII. A confirmation of the former opinion with an exposition of the place of Athanasius.

VIII. How Christ is one only person, and that eternal and unchangeable but there are in the same two natures: and how it is said to consist of them.

VIII. How Christ is one onely person, and that eternall and vnchangeable but there are in the same two natures: and how it is said to consist of them.

IX. Howe the two natures are united into one person without alteration or confusion, the properties and actions of either of them remaining whole and distinct.

IX. Hovve the tvvo natures are vnited into one person without alteracion or confusion, the properties and actions of either of them remaining whole and distinct.

X. That it cannot be proved by the union of the natures, that there is a true and a real changing of the divine proprieties, into the humane nature of Christ.

X. That it cannot bee prooued by the vnion of the natures, that there is a true and a reall chaunging of the diuine proprieties, into the humane nature of Christ.

XI. Howe great the force of this personal union is.

XI. Hovve great the force of this personall vnion is.

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VI. The human nature was not taken, to make a new person in Christ, or to make perfect the former: but only to be coupled and united to his eternal and most perfect person.

VI. The humaine nature was not taken, to make a nevv person in Christ, or to make perfect the former: but onelie to be coupled and vnited to his eternall and most perfect person.

VII. A confirmation of the former opinion with an exposition of the place of Athanasius.

VIII. How Christ is one only person, and that eternal and unchangeable but there are in the same two natures: and how it is said to consist of them.

VIII. How Christ is one onely person, and that eternall and vnchangeable but there are in the same two natures: and how it is said to consist of them.

IX. Howe the two natures are united into one person without alteration or confusion, the properties and actions of either of them remaining whole and distinct.

IX. Hovve the tvvo natures are vnited into one person without alteracion or confusion, the properties and actions of either of them remaining whole and distinct.

X. That it cannot be proved by the union of the natures, that there is a true and a real changing of the divine proprieties, into the humane nature of Christ.

X. That it cannot bee prooued by the vnion of the natures, that there is a true and a reall chaunging of the diuine proprieties, into the humane nature of Christ.

XI. Howe great the force of this personal union is.

XI. Hovve great the force of this personall vnion is.

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