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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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7 Now how can any man watch, that is loaden with surfeiting and drunkenness? therefore sobriety is very needful. Whereupon the Apostle Peter first said, Be ye sober, and after addeth, and watch: and Paul: let us be sober and watch. Sobriety is clean opposite to drunkenness: and sobrietas sobriety is said as it were sine ebrietate without drunkenness. By which word, is signified ⟨p. 26⟩by a Synecdoche the very surfeit or sickishness of the stomach. For sobriety is the moderate use, not only of drink, but also of meat: that we should be contented with such & so much, as sufficeth for sustaining of nature, and preserving of health. Wherefore the Lord Jesus, exhorting them unto sobriety, dehorted them aswell from surfeiting as from drunkenness, saying, Overcharge not your hearts with surfeiting and drunkenness: evidently showing in one word, how pernicious and noisome a thing drunkenness is. For by it mens hearts are so overladen, and pressed down towards the ground: that they can never be lifted up, to call upon God sincerely, to an earnest contemplation of heavenly matters, to an attentive reading, hearing, & true knowledge of the holy scriptures, lastly, to a profitable consideration of the mysteries of God, such as is the Lords supper: and they which are given over to this vice of drō kens, are most unapt for all exercises of piety. And how many are there, which even for their bellies lake, do fall from the trueth? So far from them is it, either that they can or will watch against the enemies thereof, or take heed to themselves because of false prophets: that thus at length they must needs miserably perish. But far larger and wider doth this ⟨p. 27⟩christian sobriety extend it self, of which the Apostle speaketh: Let us, saith he, be sober and watch: that is, in the moderate use, not only of meats and drinks, but also of all other things in this world. For God would not have us to be, as it were by sweet wines, drunken with the too much love of riches, pleasures, honours, friends, children, wives, nay not of our own lives: but they which have wives, to be, as not having wives: they which weep, as not weeping: and they which rejoice, as though they rejoiced not: and they which buy, as though they possessed not: and they which use this world, as though they used it not, &c.
7 Now how can any man watch, that is loaden with surfetting and dronkennes? therefore sobrietie is verie needfull. VVherevpon the Apostle Peter first said, Be yee sober, and after addeth, and vvatch: and Paule: let vs bee sober and vvatch. Sobrietie is cleane opposite to dronkennesse: and sobrietas sobrietie is saide as it were sine ebrietate without dronkennesse. By which word, is signified