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The account reckoning and confession of the faith of Huldrik Zwinglius bishop of Zuryk…The accompt rekenynge and confession of the faith of Huldrik Zwinglius byshop of Zuryk…
The account reckoning and confession of the faith of Huldrik Zwinglius bishop of Zuryk the chief town of Helvetia sent unto Charles the fifth now Emperor of Rome, holding a counsel with the most noble princes, estates and learned men of Germany assembled together at Augsburg. 1530. in the month of July. Translated out of latin by Thomas Cotsforde. And imprinted at Geneva. In April. 1555.The accompt rekenynge and confession of the faith of Huldrik Zwinglius byshop of Zuryk the chief towne of Heluetia sent vnto Charles the fyfte nowe Emperoure of Rome, holdynge a counsel wyth the moost noble princes, estates and learned men of Germany assembled together at Ausburgh. 1530. in the moneth of Iuly. Translated out of latyn by Thomas Cotsforde. And imprinted at Geneua. In April. 1555.
printed by Egidius Van der Erve, 1555
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Lo, all this and much more Peter both herd & saw, being almost continually in Christs company, eating and drinking with him, hearing daily his heavenly doctrine, preaching and teaching, seeing every where (as occasion served) his great and wonderful miracles. And yet for all this, what a great fall Peter had, ⟨p. 85⟩it appeareth plainly by his denial of Christ his loving master and saviour, and by the circumstances thereof, which I touched before. But yet to make Peters fall more horrible, Christ said unto him and unto all the other his Apostles, when he sent them forth to preach the Gospel of salvation: He that denieth me before men,1 I shall deny him also before my father. Alas good Peter, what case standest thou in now? How doth this saying of Christ touch thee? Remembering this saying of Christ, art thou not utterly at thy wits end? Is it not most certain & true, that thou hast to horribly fallen after that thou haddest tasted of all these gracious gifts before rehearsed? Hast thou not contrary to thine own conscience most shamefully denied thy master and saviour Christ before men? Ah good soul what shall become of thee? how wilt thou answer for thy self? For it seemeth here plainly, that both S. Paul in the afore alleged place to the Hebr. & also Christ himself in the scripture afore rehearsed have given sentence of condemnation against thee. Wherefore, both the Novatian & the Anabaptist groū ding ⟨p. 96⟩them selves upon these two places of holy scripture, will plainly pronounce the to be a reprobate, & that thou art dispatched & utterly cast away from all hope of salvation. But here let us not to lightly pass over, but earnestly way & deeply consider, what may be said in this matter on Peters behalf. And first it may be rightly answered, that that place of S. Paul unto the Hebrews,2 maketh nothing against S. Peter, neither yet against any christen man, how grievously or how often so ever he hath sinned, so that he hath not utterly forsaken Christ and fallen clean away from him. For S. Paul sayeth: It can not be that they which were once lightened. &c. If they fall away. &c. that they should be renewed by repentance.