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

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

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Surely we confess with Athanasius, that as the reasonable soul and flesh is one man; so God and man is one Christ: that is, Christ is only one person, although there be in him two natures: yet not that the person of Christ (if we will speak properly) is constituted or made of both these natures, as of the parts; as to the perfect constitution of man, no less the body, as an essential part, then the soul must join together: seeing the person of Christ was already, ¹and that whole and most perfect, before it was showed in the flesh: but the person of man (as of Adam,) was none at all, until the foul was coupled with the body: and sith that nether the soul doth assume unto it self a body, or the body a soul, as the son of God assumed unto himself the seed of Abraham, into unity of the same person: And further sith the body and the soul are two existences, as it is manifest in the creation of Adam, but mans nature did never subsist by it self, but only in the person of the son of God: so that very unjustly do some abuse this godly saying of the holy man, for proof of their own dreams: For he which did show ⟨p. 60⟩himself (and he is the person of the Son of god) must needs differ from the flesh, wherein he did show himself: and that not only before, but also after his resurrection, and sitting at the right hand of his father: which (as saith Augustine) added a glory to the flesh, but took not away the nature.

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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…

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.

XII. Christ, in that he is man, is endued with a very great yet a determinate power: and other gifts.

XII. Christ, in that he is man, is indued with a very great yet a determinate power: and other gifts.

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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.

XII. Christ, in that he is man, is endued with a very great yet a determinate power: and other gifts.

XII. Christ, in that he is man, is indued with a very great yet a determinate power: and other gifts.

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