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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[Cambridge] :: Printed by Iohn Legat, printer to the Vniuersitie of Cambridge,
1599.
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Theology, Doctrinal -- Early works to 1800.
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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 June 3, 2024.

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XVII. The sacraments of the old Testament, what in general they had in them, common vvith ours.

Touching the sacraments of the old Testa∣ment, there is no cause we should speak much seing they are quite abrogated: only this, that the Fathers had the same God, the same pro∣mises, the same mediatour, the same spirite of regeneration, the same faith and hope: and the same sacraments in respect of the substance,

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which is Christ: howsoeuer in cerimonies they were diuerse from ours: especiallie sith theirs were deliuered to them for the same ende and purpose, for which ours were deliuered to vs: namely, that they might bee confirmed in the faith of Christ, and bee ioyned in communion with him. Whereunto belong those sayings. The lambe slaine from the beginning of the worlde: * 1.1 Also, All did drinke of the same rock, and the rocke was Christ: And, Christ yesterday, to day, and for euer.

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