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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Therefore we condemn all aswell the ancient as later heretics, which ever taught or teach the contrary: Arrius, Photinus, & namely Seruetus, and all other ungodly men of that crew, which deny the true deity of Christ: the Cerdonians, the Marcionites, the Valentinians, the Manichees, the Priscillianits, the Apollinarists, and the rest which do oppugn the true humanity of Christ: some denying, that Christ came in the flesh, and that he had true flesh: and do contend that he brought a fantastical body from heaven, or that he was conceived of the elements, and not of the seed of Abraham, and that he was not borne of a woman: others granting him indeed ⟨p. 73⟩a true human flesh, but yet depriving him of a reasonable soul, and substituting his deity in place of his soul: Also the Nestorians, which denied the true union of the human nature with the person of the Son, & did set down two persons in Christ, and two Sons, the Son of God, and the Son of man. We likewise condemn the Eutychians, which on the contrary side, as Christ is but one only person, so they leave him but one nature only, namely the divine: teaching that the human nature which he assumed, either is wholly turned into the divine: or else so mingled and confounded with the divine, that they make no difference at all in him, between the proprieties and actions of his divine and human natures. We condemn also those which have proceeded from the former, as Macarius with his followers, which make but one only will in Christ, namely the divine, and therefore admit no proper action at all of the humane will in Christ. We condemn likewise the Cerdonians also in this point, that they said, Christ did not truly suffer, nor was truly dead, but that he feigned a suffering, or (as some heretics say) he suffered and died putatively: and therefore with these we also con den, all which taught or teach the like things: as namely, that Christ rose not again truly in the same flesh, wherein he died, but in another of a diverse nature: or else, that if he rose

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XVI. Errors.

CHAP. XII. Of the true dispensation of the Redemption, the salvation, & life which is laid up in Christ alone: and therefore of the necessary uniting, and participation with Christ.

CHAP. XII. Of the true dispensation of the Redemption, the saluation, & life which is laid vp in Christ alone: and therefore of the necessarie vniting, and participation vvith Christ.

I. Salvation and eternal life is laid in Christ, that from him it may be communicated to be.

I. Saluation and eternall lise is laid in Christ, that from him it may bee communicated to be.

II. The grace of redemption, and salvation is offered unto all men: but indeed is not communicated, but to the elect, who are made one with Christ.

II. The grace of redemption, and saluation is offred vnto all men: but indeed is not communicated, but to the elect, who are made one vvith Christ.

III. To the true participation of eternal life, how necessary this true union or communion is with Christ.

III. To the true participation of eternall life, howe necessarie this true vnion or communion is with Christ.

IV. That we cannot be united unto Christ, unless he first unite himself to us.

IV. That we cannot be vnited vnto Christ, vnlesse he first vnite himselfe to vs.

V. How many fold is the union of Christ with us, and of us with Christ, and how they are ordered in themselves.

V. How many fold is the vnion of Christ with vs, and of vs with Christ, and how they are ordered in themselues.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

XVI. Errors.

CHAP. XII. Of the true dispensation of the Redemption, the salvation, & life which is laid up in Christ alone: and therefore of the necessary uniting, and participation with Christ.

CHAP. XII. Of the true dispensation of the Redemption, the saluation, & life which is laid vp in Christ alone: and therefore of the necessarie vniting, and participation vvith Christ.

I. Salvation and eternal life is laid in Christ, that from him it may be communicated to be.

I. Saluation and eternall lise is laid in Christ, that from him it may bee communicated to be.

II. The grace of redemption, and salvation is offered unto all men: but indeed is not communicated, but to the elect, who are made one with Christ.

II. The grace of redemption, and saluation is offred vnto all men: but indeed is not communicated, but to the elect, who are made one vvith Christ.

III. To the true participation of eternal life, how necessary this true union or communion is with Christ.

III. To the true participation of eternall life, howe necessarie this true vnion or communion is with Christ.

IV. That we cannot be united unto Christ, unless he first unite himself to us.

IV. That we cannot be vnited vnto Christ, vnlesse he first vnite himselfe to vs.

V. How many fold is the union of Christ with us, and of us with Christ, and how they are ordered in themselves.

V. How many fold is the vnion of Christ with vs, and of vs with Christ, and how they are ordered in themselues.

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