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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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XXXIII. Sick people must be visited, 1comforted, and strengthened in faith: and they that are dying must be accompanied with prayer, & commended to Christ: & the bodies of the dead reverently buried.
XXXIII. Sick people must be visited, 1comforted, and strengthned in faith: and they that are dying must bee acompanied with prayer, & commended to Christ: & the bodies of the dead reuerently buried.
- 1Of sickmen and burial.Of sickmen and buriall.
Neither ought the church to take less care of the sick, than of the whole, nor of the dead, then of the living: seeing all are members of Christ and their bodies temples of the holy ghost. We therefore acknowledge that it belongeth to the true government of the church, that some godly and wife men be appointed: which may visit the sick persons, comfort them out of the word of God, and confirm them in faith: and if it happen that those sick persons be called of God forth of this world, to encourage and animate them to their departure: as knowing, that the souls of the faithful, so soon as they go forth of their bodies: do presently pass into heaven to Christ: conveyed thither by Christs spirit, and accompanied with his Angels: and that they are blessed which dye in the Lord; Let them also pray with them, and accompany those, who are departing this life with their prayers, even unto the last gasp, and so commend them to Christ. And we doubt not but their bodies are with reverence to be brought unto the graves: as our churches both in words and in their deeds do teach: