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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 16. chapter. The 9. aphorism.
Vpon the 16. chapter. The 9. aphorisme.
The place of the 1. to the Corinth. 6. being diligently marked (as also we noted before in the 15. chap. and 14. Apho.) may well decide the controversy about the wicked mens Eating, that is, the Hypocrites; and of the sacramental eating.
The place of the 1. to the Corinth. 6. beeing diligently marked (as also we noted before in the 15. chap. and 14. Apho.) may well decide the controversie about the wicked mens Eating, that is, the Hypocrites; and of the sacramentall eating.
We say, that hypocrites do not eat the true body of Christ, sith they are void of faith (namely they ear it not truly and indeed, sith it is not indeed eaten, but only by true faith, which they want) but only sacramentally, that is, they eat indeed the sacrament, and the sign it self: The Adversaries say also, that hypocrites do eat the true body of Christ, only sacramentally: but by this word they mean, that they receive not only the sacrament, that is, the sign, but all the thing it self: though not unto salvation. If they mean this in the same sense, that the Apostle doth, when he said, The Corinthians were all sanctified, justified &c. namely that by receiving baptism the sacrament of true Regeneration, and sanctification, they were reckoned to have received the thing also: sith the very sacrament