H. ZANCHIVS HIS CONFESSION OF CHRISTIAN RELIGION.Which now at length being 70. years of age, he causea 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.ROM. 10.With the heart man believeth unto righteousness: but with the mouth man confesseth to salvation.Let all things be subject to the judgement of the true Catholic church.PRINTED BY JOHN LEGATE, printer to the University of Cambridge. 1599.H. ZANCHIVS HIS CONFESSION OF CHRISTIAN RELIGION.Which novve at length being 70. yeares of age, he causea 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.ROM. 10.With the heart man beleeueth vnto righteousnes: but with the mouth man confesseth to saluation.Let all things bee subiect to the iudgement of the true Catholike church.PRINTED BY IOHN LEGAT, printer to the Vniuersitie of Cambridge. 1599.Title page of H. Zanchius his confession of Christian religion Which now at length being 70. years…, Cambridge, 1599H. 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…Girolamo Zanchi, 1599

Of God, and of the divine persons and properties.Of God, and of the diuine persons and properties.

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CHAP. II. Of God, and of the divine persons and properties.

CHAP. II. Of God, and of the diuine persons and properties.

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I. That there is one only god, distinct in three persons.

I. That there is one onely god, distinct in three persons.

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AS we are taught therefore by the holy scriptures, ¹which are his own word, we believe that there is only one god, that is, one simple, indivisible, eternal, living and most perfect essence in three existences, or (as the church useth to speak) persons, ²namely subsisting of the eternal Father, the eternal Son, and the eternal holy spirit, truly distinct among themselves, yet without all division: being both beginning and cause of all things.

AS wee are taught therefore by the holie scriptures, ¹which are his owne word, we beleeue that there is only one god, that is, one simple, indiuisible, eternall, liuing and most perfect essence in three existences, or (as the church vseth to speake) persons, ²namelie subsisting of the eternall Father, the eternall Sonne, and the eternall holie spirite, truely distinct among themselues, yet without all diuision: being both beginning and cause of all thinges.

Of God, and of the divine persons and properties.Of God, and of the diuine persons and properties.

CHAP. II. Of God, and of the divine persons and properties.

CHAP. II. Of God, and of the diuine persons and properties.

I. That there is one only god, distinct in three persons.

I. That there is one onely god, distinct in three persons.

Of God, and of the divine persons and properties.Of God, and of the diuine persons and properties.

CHAP. II. Of God, and of the divine persons and properties.

CHAP. II. Of God, and of the diuine persons and properties.

I. That there is one only god, distinct in three persons.

I. That there is one onely god, distinct in three persons.

II. That so every person by it self is true god that yet there be not three gods.

II. That so euerieperson by it selfe is true god that yet there be not three gods.

III. One person to be distinct from another in personal proprieties: but in essential they differ from every creature.

III. One person to be distinct from another in personall proprieties: but in essentiall they differ from euerie creature.

IIII. The essential proprieties in god, do not in very deed differ from the essence.

IIII. The essentiall proprieties in god, doe not in verie deede differ from the essence.

V. That nothing is or can be made simply such as god is: unless the same might simply be god.

V. That nothing is or can be made simplie such as god is: vnlesse the same might simplie be god.

VI. A confirmation of the former opinion.

VII. Errors.

CHAP. II. Of God, and of the divine persons and properties.

CHAP. II. Of God, and of the diuine persons and properties.

I. That there is one only god, distinct in three persons.

I. That there is one onely god, distinct in three persons.

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CHAP. II. Of God, and of the divine persons and properties.

CHAP. II. Of God, and of the diuine persons and properties.

I. That there is one only god, distinct in three persons.

I. That there is one onely god, distinct in three persons.

II. That so every person by it self is true god that yet there be not three gods.

II. That so euerieperson by it selfe is true god that yet there be not three gods.

III. One person to be distinct from another in personal proprieties: but in essential they differ from every creature.

III. One person to be distinct from another in personall proprieties: but in essentiall they differ from euerie creature.

IIII. The essential proprieties in god, do not in very deed differ from the essence.

IIII. The essentiall proprieties in god, doe not in verie deede differ from the essence.

V. That nothing is or can be made simply such as god is: unless the same might simply be god.

V. That nothing is or can be made simplie such as god is: vnlesse the same might simplie be god.

VI. A confirmation of the former opinion.

VII. Errors.