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 June 4, 2024.
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III. The afflictions, vvhich the children of God endure after their sinnes are pardoned, are not punish∣ments and satisfactions for sinnes past, but fatherly chastisement for those to come.
But whereas God, after the forgiuenesse of sinnes, is wont to afflict and scourge his chil∣dren with manie torments: wee beleeue that God doth it not, for that, they should by that meanes either wholly or in part satisfie his iu∣stice for their sinnes: seing that one full satis∣faction of Christ for vs, is inough and more then inough: but, that by them, as by fatherly corrections, we may afterwards be more wa∣rie, and take heed what belongeth to the mor∣tifying of sinne that dwelleth in vs: and that we should no more so easilie slipp into sinne: whereuppon we with Augustine do cal them and teach that they are to bee called,
* 1.1 not the punishments of sinne, but the tryalls of faith, and exercises of the Saints.