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.

IV. That the sonne vvas made man, without anie change of himselfe, but onely assuming to himselfe humaine nature.

And vvee beleeue that the sonne of God vvas made man, vvithout making any confusi∣on of the diuine and humaine natures, vvith∣out his conuersion into flesh, or anie chaunge in the flesh, onely by assuming of the humaine nature, into the vnitie of that person: and as Athanasius speaketh, * 1.1 not by conuersion of the godhead into flesh, but by taking of the man∣hood into God: so that, that vvhich he vvas, he did by no meanes leese or let goe, but that vvhich he vvas not, he tooke vppon him as the Apostle saith, * 1.2 the sonne tooke on him, the seede of Abraham: and as he teacheth, that, as the sonne taking vppon him, vvas not chaunged into the thing taken, (for God cannot be chaunged at all) but remained the same that he vvas, trulie distinct from the thing assumed and taken: So that seede taken on him vvas not turned into

the thing that tooke it, but was vnited with the diuine nature, into the vnitie onely of the same person; according to that saying, The word was made flesh. The flesh therefore remai∣ned flesh, and was not changed into the word.

Notes

• * 1.1

  In sym.
• * 1.2

  Ieb. 2.16.