IX. The lavv hath still the same vse, yea euen in men regenerate.
And we beleeue, that these vses of the law
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.
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- 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.
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- Zanchi, Girolamo, 1516-1590.
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- 1599.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A15857.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 24, 2024.
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are perpetuall, as long as wee remaine in this world: not onely in men not regenerate, as it said, but also in the verie regenerate. For sith our mindes are still blinded with much dark∣nesse, and our memorie so slipperie, that wee can neither perfectlie vnderstand the thinges that are of god, nor keep in minde that which we haue vnderstood: we haue euermore need of this glasse of the diuine lawe, wherein wee may dailie behold, and still more certainelie vnderstād, what god will haue vs to do. More∣ouer, sith our heart is not yet perfectly clean∣sed from all corruption, that it can bee fullie setled vppon doing the will of God, but that the flesh still wrastleth against the spirite, therefore the law is most necessarie, which may terrifie vs with the threatninges, and hold vs in from offending: and with the promises may stirre vs forward to obedience and to the working of righteousnesse. Lastlie sith there is none so holie which sinneth not manie waies, & which hath not sinne dwelling in him, whereby wee bee made weake vnto goodnesse, and prone to ill: Therefore the lawe is proffitable vnto vs, by which our sinnes and infirmities being made knowne to vs, wee may dailie more and more acknowledge how impossible it is that we by our owne works, should at anie time bee iusti∣fied or saued: and therefore should bee filled with the greater desire, hunger, and thirst of the righteousnesse of Christ, and embrace him by faith: And thus the law, when it can neuer
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iustifie vs, yet it may alwaies drawe vs neerer vnto Christ who iustifieth, more and more to be iustified.
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Gal. 5.17
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1. Ioh. 1.8