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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XII. Errors.

We condemn all Pelagians, which thought that infants were conceiued without sinne: & therefore needed not the forgiuenes of sinns and benefite of Christ for their saluation: and those also, which teach that although they must needes haue forgiuenesse of sinnes, yet that the same maye bee obtained without faith in Christ: And those too, which thinke, that al∣though wee neede to haue faith in Christ, yet that the same is not sufficient, but that wee need also our owne works, as merites necessa∣rie for the obtaining forgiuenes of sinne: but especially those that teach the same to be done by vngodly worship and fonde superstitions. Neither doe wee allowe of those, which haue taught that we are iustified by no other iustice then that inwarde and inherent iustice: Nor those, which thought that the remissiō of sinns can stand without the internall renuing and iustice. Wee also condemne them, which sup∣pose they may bee iustified and saued by the

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historicall faith cōcerning Christ, which Iames calleth a dead faith, that is, none at all. Yea and there opinion is disallowed of vs, which teach that a mā is iustified, not by remission of sinns and imputation of Christes iustice, but euen by the verie essentiall righteousnesse (as they call it) of Christ really communicated to vs.

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