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.
Zanchi, Girolamo, 1516-1590.
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XIII. That there is a true presence of Christ in the supper: but it is spirituall.
Now by this which we haue saide, both of the true vnion, and the true eating: it may ea∣silie be seene, what wee ought to beleeue of the true presence. Wee hold therefore, that if we be truely and indeed vnited with Christ, & so with his flesh and blood: and, if we truely eate his flesh and drinke his blood: then the same Christ not onely in his deitie but also in his flesh and blood is present vnto them that are vnited vnto him, and do eare his flesh and drinke his blood. For what can be more pre∣sent to thee, then that which thou eatest and drinkest? and to which, thou in thine owne sub∣stance art coupled, and from which, as from thy head, life and motion is imparted to thee as into a member?
