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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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Upon the 5. chapter of the worlds creation &c. The 2. aphorism.
Ʋpon the 5. chapter of the worlds creation &c. The 2. aphorisme.
That the heaven of the blessed, wherein the Lord Jesus is now in his body, doth differ from the earth, and from the other heavens, and is above all those visible heavens: besides that which hath bin already said, these few proofs do also confirm: Eph. 4. Christ is said to have ascended above all heavens: in another place, he is read to have ascended into heaven, and to be in heaven, and to sit at the right hand of the father. Therefore this heaven is above the other heavens, and differeth from them. So in the third to the Colloss. the Apostle distinguisheth the place where Christ is at the right hand of the father, from the earth: and calleth it upward, saying, Seek ye the things above, set your affections ⟨p. 278⟩on things above, where Christ is: and in the 4. of the first to the Thess. he sayeth the Lord shall descend from heaven, namely into these lower parts: and all the godly shall be caught up into the air to meet Christ in the clouds. That heaven therefore is aloft, not on the earth, not in the air: much less in every place. For he shall come down in the visible shape of his body, from the high heaven, into these parts, to judge the quick and the dead. Of this heaven we have spoken particularly, in our books Do operibus dei, of the works which he created in the six days. We therefore disallow of that doctrine which is contrary: which distinguisheth not the heaven from the earth, nor this heaven, from other heavens, but would prove it to be every where.
That the heauen of the blessed, wherein the Lord Iesus is now in his bodie, doth differ frō the earth, and from the other heauens, and is aboue all those visible heauens: besides that which hath bin already said, these few proofs do also confirme: