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 23, 2024.

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34 The church cannot rightly bee gouerned with∣out lawfull, free, and christian meetings and Synodes of ministers.

This also wee are assuredly perswaded, as

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we learne both by the holie scriptures, and by continuall experience: that the church can not rightly bee gouerned, vnlesse at knowne times there bee meetings of ministers aswell priuate, in each seuerall church; which were wont to bee called consistories or consultati∣ons; as also publike and common in each pro∣uince & kingdome, which for this cause were vsed to be called prouincial Synodes: yea and also so much as may be common to al people in christendome which were called generall councells: wherein it may be determined vp∣pon all matters pertaining to the health, pre∣seruation, and edification of the church: euery ones free opinion may be heard: & each thing concluded by common consent, and out of o∣ther the most approued councells: as we read the Apostles, and all the auncient churches did.

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