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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VII. Men are iustified by faith alone,

Here by it is easily vnderstood, what is mēt in that wee haue euermore confessed and doe yet constantly confesse with the holy scripturs and with the godly fathers, that wee are iusti∣fied by faith alone. For sith to bee iustified by

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faith in the sight of God, is nothing else, but to be accounted iust by the remission of sinne and iustice of Christ apprehended by faith: & that this is onely the true righteousnes: whē∣as, whatsoeuer inherent righteousnesse there is in vs, and whatsoeuer good worke wee doe, is such as cannot stande in the sight of God: according to that saying, Enter not into iudge∣ment with thy seruant O Lord, for no flesh is righte∣ous in thy sight: and that also, if thou markest what is done amisse O Lord, Lord vvho can abide it? it most plainely appeareth, that our beleefe con∣cerning iustification by faith alone is most cer∣taine and most true.

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