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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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XI. Howe great the force of this personal union is.
XI. Hovve great the force of this personall vnion is.
Mean while, we believe and confess the force of this union of the natures in the person of Christ to be so great: that first, whatsoever Christ is or doeth, according to the divine nature, that same, whole Christ, the Son of man, may be said to be, or to do: and again, whatsoever Christ doth or suffereth according to his human nature, that same, whole Christ the son of God, God himself, is said in the holy Scriptures, to be, to do, and to suffer. As that: God (that is Christ, man and God) redeemed the church with his blood: 1whenas the force of the redemption pertained to the god head, the shedding of his blood only to the manhood. Yet both these actions are joined in one, and each of them may be spoken alike of whole Christ: although they were and are distinct, because the natures, although distinct yet are coupled together in Christs one person. Yea Christ the mediator, according to his humanity never did or doeth any thing, wherein his divinity did not or doth not work together: and he never performed any thing ⟨p. 66⟩according to his divinity, whereunto his humanity was not assisting or consenting: that the Fathers very fitly called all the works of Christ the Mediator [Greek or Hebrew], that is performed both by God and man. Secondly as the force of the union is so great between the Father and the Son, that he doeth nothing, nor communicateth any good thing to the world, but by the Son: even so the force of the personal union of the two natures is so great, that no grace, no salvation, no life can come to us from the deity, but by the humanity, apprehended of us by faith: so that he must needs be coupled to the flesh of Christ, that will be partaker of eternal life: whereunto that saying of Christ tendeth, 2unless ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, ye shall have no life in you. Lastly it causeth, that we cannot adore the deity in Christ, but we must also therewith adore the human nature, and that the divine and human nature must both be reverenced with one reverence only, according to that same: And when he bringeth in his first begotten son into the would,