VII. A godly prince ought not to deale with all men of a diuerse religion, after one manner.
But seing (to say something brieflie of the other duetie of a prince concerning religion) there be diuerse kinds of men, which a prince
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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"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 June 4, 2024.
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may haue vnder his gouernement, namely ei∣ther meere infidells: or such as indeede pro∣fesse Christ, but yet are also open idolaters, or in manie things apostataes from the apostoli∣call church, or in some article of the faith ma∣nifest heritikes, or else erre vppon simplicitie: or such as are rightly persuaded in all matters: we doe certainly hold, that a prince ought not to vse one kinde of measure towards all these sortes: for some of them are to be loued, che∣rished, and honored: some to bee winked at: some not to be suffred: other some to be quite cut off: and none must bee permitted to blas∣pheme Christ, or to worshipp idolls, or retaine vngodlie ceremonies.