XXIX. The church goods should not be wasted, but be bestowed on the maintenance of mini∣sters, and other godly vses.
And whereas manie goods haue in times
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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- 1599.
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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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past, and yet in some places are giuen to chur∣ches, by the liberality of princes & other god∣lie persons: wee iudge that if any church haue such goodes, great care is to be had, that the same be not wasted, nor conuerted into pro∣phane vses, and much lesse into sacriligious v∣ses, nor fained to bee so conuerted: but to bee onely bestowed vppon that purpose whereto they were giuen, euen to a godly intent. And wee well allowe of that auncient partition of church goods, where one part went to the bi∣shops, that is, to the teachers, and ministers of the word, and their families; another, to the clerkes, that is, to students and such as were ordained to the ministerie of the church: and to them that attended on the church: the third part, to poore people and trauelers: a fourth part to repairing of churches and schooles, to which parte also, belong not onely the houses of ministers, teachers, studentes, libraries and bookes, all kinds of instruments and thinges necessarie for churches and schooles: but also spittles and hospitals, and other such like pla∣ces, where such liue, as are peculiarly to be re∣leeued and cared for of the church.
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