A15857:622
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
XXII. Without the catholic church is no salvation.
XXII. Without the catholicke church is no saluation.
Here hence we consequently learn, & believe, that this catholic church only is so holy, and hath salvation so annexed to it: that out of it there is no holiness, no salvation: sith that in it only the trueth so shineth, (without which salvation can come to none,) that without it there can be no trueth: and lastly, sith none but the body of Christ can be saved. 1For no man ascendeth into heaven, but he which came down from heaven, the son of man, which is in heaven: that is, the whole son of man, withal his whole body, which is the church: that not unfitly Peter compared the church to Noah's ark, in which alone, mankind was preserved, 2and out of which whosoever were found, perished in the waters of the flood. 3Now that which we confess of the whole church as a thing most assured, the same of every particular one, we cannot grant: namely, to say, that in this church alone, or that, in the Romish, or that at Constantinople, the rueth and salvation is obtained: so that without it should be no salvation: and consequently to depart from it, were nothing else then to forsake the trueth, our salvation, and Christ. For some church may be brought to that pass: that unless thou departest from the fellowship thereof, ⟨p. 203⟩thou canst have no part nor fellowship with the catholic church, and her head.