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 May 24, 2024.

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I. Baptisme what it is, and vvhat are the effects of it.

Baptisme, first is a sacrament of the new co∣uenant: wherewith all men which either ha∣uing professed true repentance of their finnes, doe also professe faith in Iesus Christ, and so

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in God the father, the sonne, and the holie ghost, or at least, are beleeued to appertaine vnto the couenant, through the faith of their parents: but especially they, which truely doe belong vnto the couenant, as beeing now in∣corporated into Christ are sealed by him; that they should be no longer their owne men, but his, by whome they are called into the societie of the couenant, and consequently into one bodie with him and all the Saintes, and into participation of all spiritual & heauenly good things: and are cleansed by this Baptisme, as the water of regeneration, from al their sinns, by vertue of Christs blood: and buried into the death with Christ: that as he rose frō death by the fauour of the Father, so wee should walke in newnesse of life: whereupon it hath bin vsually called the sacrament of repentāce for the remission of sinnes, the sacrament of faith, the seale of the couenant, the water of regeneration, the washing away of sinnes, the sacrament of new life.

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