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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
Article 2: ¶The second Article.Article 2: ¶The seconde Article.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
¶The second Article.
¶The seconde Article.
Secondarily, I know and believe,1 that this most excellent majesty, which is my God, doth frankly and without constraint or let appoint and determine of all things, so that his coū sell and determination hangeth of no cause or occasion of any creature, for that is the property of the maimed wisdom of man, to judge and determine by conferring and debating of natural reasons, or by example going before. But God (which from everlasting unto for ever & ever with one only and simple looking upon beholdeth all things) needeth no account,2 reckoning, experience or proof of things that are done, but being on every part wise, prudent, good &c. hath frankly determined and set an order in all things. For his own ⟨p. 9⟩are all things that are. Hereof it is, that all be it wittingly and advisedly he in the beginning would make man,3 which he knew perfectly would fall, yet nevertheless would aswell determine, to cloth his son with mans nature, to repair and restore again the fall: whereby his goodness on every part doth appear.4 In which goodness is comprised both his mercy and righteousness. His righteousness he put forth, when he cast the transgressors out of the pleasant mansions of Paradise: when he tied them in the prison of mans misery, and fettered them in the chains of sicknesses, and when he laid the law upon them, which (albeit it was holy) they could never of their own power fulfil. For here man being a double wretch learned, not only his body to have fallen into misery, but also his mind for fear of the law transgressed to be tormented. For when after the spirit he saw that the law was holy,