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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IV. The yong infants of the faithfull, are to bee baptized.

We beleeue with the whole anciēt church, that vnto the sacrament of Baptisme, are to be admitted not onely they that are of discre∣tion, which hauing professed repentaunce of their sinnes, doe also professe faith in Christ: but also the yong children of such, sith they

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are to bee accompted to belong to the coue∣nant, * 1.1 (as the Apostle saieth,) The children of the faithfull are holie: especially seing God hath no where altered that commandement which he gaue to Abraham, for the marking of all, with the figne of the couenant, euen the children of the faithfull: * 1.2 nay he said, Suffer litle children to come vnto me; for of such is the kingdome of hea∣uen.

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