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. Jt was most aduisedly done, that Angells should not teach in the church, but men.
And wee know it was most wisely and ad∣uisedly done of God, that Christ should teach in his church, not by Angells, but by men: both, because we can not more willingly suf∣fer our selues to be informed familiarly of our equalles, then to be taught of spirits of a farre diffring nature, with an vnaquainted maiesty: and also, because we might more easily be de∣ceiued of Satan, falsly faining himselfe to bee sent of God, and transforming himselfe to an Angel of light. And those surely in our iudge∣ment are two not the least causes, why the sonne of God, when he was to fulfill the office of a teacher in the church, would bee made a man, and our brother, and familier, and like vnto vs in all thinges sinne onely excepted: whereto that same tendeth:
I vvill declare thy name to my brethren, in the midst of the congregati∣on will I praise thee: and that same, In these last daies he hath spoken vnto vs by his sonne, namely, being nowe made man, and liuing familiarlie in the church.