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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IV. Likewise in getting the morall vertues, a rege∣nerate man is freer, and of more force then the vnregenerate.
And albeit we confesse, that a man vnrege∣nerate, helped by the speciall aide of God, cā bee possessed with the morall vertues: yet wee hold, that this speciall aide of God is much more forcible in the regenerate: and that through the presence of the holie ghost,
by whome they are lightened, gouerned, & driuē forward: as it was well prooued of the aunci∣ent fathers, against the vaine boast of the gē∣tilles, that those vertues which they call mo∣rall, were farre other manner of giftes in the
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christians, then they were, or could bee in the infidells: sith in them they were onely the ima∣ges or shadowes of vertues, but in true christi∣ans they were the verie vertues indeed.
Notes
Tert. in the Apol. c. 4.5. Aug. cont. Iul. Pel. lib. 4 c. 3. & De Ciu. De. lib. 19 c. 25. O∣rig. con. cels.