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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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VII. Errors.
We condemn those impious dotages, both of the philosophers, which taught that mens souls were mortal; and of those heretics, which thought that the souls of all men once separated from the bodies were in some close places, where they slept, that is, were deprived of all sense and operation of the mind: or else waked, but yet rested, till they resumed again new bodies, and then were admitted into heaven, or else thrust into hell: as also those, which dreamed that the souls of many godly men, were cleansed by a certain fire in purgatory, from the relics of their sins, and their suffered temporal punishments. We disallow ⟨p. 263⟩also those, which do not distinguish between heaven where we read that the godly are, from hell and the deeps, where we read that the wicked shall be: but that make a difference between them both, only in this, that some are made blessed, some accursed, though they shall be all in one place together. Neither can we allow of those, which say, that if not the certain day and hour, yet the certain time, month or year, may be known & set down, when the Lord will come, and end this world: notwithstanding that Christ said, it is not for you to know the times. Yea and we accuse those scorners; of whom Peter spake, which think that the world shall ever remain thus: 1denying that there is any life to come & laughing at it. We also condemn those which deny the resurrection of the dead; as also those which dream, that they shall not have the same, but other new bodies. Also we condemn those that taught, that our bodies after the resurrection shall be so spiritual: that they shall be like to a spirit, or as the air, and not be seen nor felt, as some have also feigned the body of Christ was after his resurrection: and since have also forged, and impudently lied, that his body was, as it were changed into his divine nature, so that it could no longer be called a creature.