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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
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.
Forasmuch than, as neither he, nor ⟨p. 14⟩yet any that is borne of him can take away this state and condition of bond dage (for a bondman can not but beget another bond man) he hath by the deadly tasting of the forbidden fruit,1 cast all his posterity into bondage. Now therefore touching original sin I think thus:
For asmuch than, as neither he, nor ⟨p. 14⟩yet any that is borne of hym can take awaye thys state and condicion of bō dage (for a bondman can not but beget another bond mā) he hath by the deadly tastyng of the forbyddē frute,1 kest all hys posteritie into bondage. Nowe therfore touchynge original synne I thynke thus:
- 1They are called bond that are saved, when of right they might have been killed by their takers.They are called bōd that are saued, whan of right they might haue bene kylled by their takers.
That is truly called sin, which is committed against the law: for where no law is, there is no transgression. And where no transgression is, there is no sin, as sin is properly taken, that is, so far as sin is a deed, a fault, an act or offence. Therefore I acknowledge that our first father sinned a sin, that is sin in deed, that is to say, an act a fault, and a detestable thing. But they that are borne of him have not sinned after that manner. For which of us have bitten with our teeth and eaten the forbidden fruit in Paradise? Wherefore will we nil we, we are compelled to grant that original sin as it is in the children of Adam, is not properly sin, as it is now declared, for properly it is not an act or deed committed against the law. But it may properly be called, a byrthsore, a natural sickness &