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.

X. That it cannot bee prooued by the vnion of the natures, that there is a true and a reall chaunging of the diuine proprie∣ties, into the humane nature of Christ.

For wee allow that axiome or principle of the Fathers, against the Eutychians, and Mo∣nothelities: namelie that, they vvhich haue the same essentiall proprieties, haue also the same natures and essences: and they whose naturall proprieties are confounded, they haue also their natures confounded. Which being of it selfe true in all things, then is it especiallie true in God: in whome the es∣sentiall proprieties are indeede nothing else, but the essence it selfe: that it must in verie deed needs follow, if those essentiall proprie∣ties can truelie and properly be communica∣ted

to anie created substance, so that it may be made such, as God is, as (for example) simplie omnipotent; then the diuine essence it selfe cā also be communicated vnto it: so that it might be made equall to God in substance, & there∣fore consubstantiall with God, if it might be made equall vnto him, in power, or anie other proprietie. So herein is admitted a double, & that a grecuous offence: One is, that when we communicate truelie and properlie, to a crea∣ture those thinges which belong to God, wee make the creature equall to god. Neither can this exception serue to shift it, that God hath them of himselfe, but the humaine nature in Christ taketh them of the Godhead. For euen the Sonne, is not of himselfe, nor hath he his diuine essence of himselfe, but of the Father: yet is he notwithstanding equall to the father and hath the same nature with the Father. A∣nother offence is, that vvhile vve attribute di∣uine and so infinite proprieties to the humaine nature, as infinite povver: we depriue the same of the ovvne and proper qualitie: not other∣vvise then the glorie of the resurrection shall depriue our bodies of the basenesse of corrup¦tion, vvhen it shall bee truelie communicated vnto them: and not othervvise then the cleare light of the Sunne, if it bee let into the ayre, vvhich vvas lightened onelie vvith the light of a candell, it extinguisheth that light. For if the infinite povver vvorketh and doth all thinges: the finite shall be idle, and therefore none at

all. But sith this heresie, euen in our time, is largely and plainly refelled by many learned men: we which doe here exhibite this briefe & simple confession of our faith to the church of God, and to all posteritie, will add no more to that which hath bin said.