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.
About this Item
Title
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.
Author
Zanchi, Girolamo, 1516-1590.
Publication
[Cambridge] :: Printed by Iohn Legat, printer to the Vniuersitie of Cambridge,
1599.
Rights/Permissions
To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.
Subject terms
Theology, Doctrinal -- Early works to 1800.
Cite this Item
"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 23, 2024.
Pages
descriptionPage 124
IV. The bread, why it is called the bodie of Christ.
Whereuppon we may also vnderstand, why Christ called this bread, his own body: name∣ly, not for that it is either properly his verie true bodie, or that there is any such body cō∣tained within it, or also that it is onely a bare signe of his bodie, broken and dead for vs: but that it is a sacrament, (for sacraments saith Augustine take vnto them the names of the things, whereof they be sacraments) and therefore an in∣strument also of the holie ghost, to communi∣cate vnto vs the true body of Christ, & to con∣firme vs in his communion. Like as for the same cause the Apostle also called baptisme, not the signe of regeneration,
but the vvashing water it self of regeneration: namely because that by this washing of water through the worde, as by a fitt instrument, Christ by the working power of his spirite doeth inwardly wash and cleanse vs, and begett vs a new.