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. Not by any manner of consent, but by consent in Christs doctrine, some churches may be shewed to be true and christian churches.
For thus wee knowe, that it can neuer bee prooued, that wheresoeuer there is a full a∣greement among themselues, there are the true churches of God: sith both in the Iewish sinagogues, and in the turkish congregations
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and long since in the conuenticles of the Ar∣rians and Donatists, there hath euer bene an especiall agreement: but wee hold it may bee prooued onely by that consent, which is in the pure doctrine of Christ, and in true pietie. For where the Apostle saieth,
I beseech you brethren, by the name of our Lord Iesus Christ, that yee all speake one thing, and that there bee no dissentions a∣mong yee: but be yee knitt together in one minde and in one iudgement: hee meaneth, in that Lord Ie∣sus Christ, by whose name he intreated them.