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 May 24, 2024.
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IV. Sinnes are properly remitted of God alone free∣ly, and for Christs sake our mediatour.
Wee beleeue also,
that our sinnes are pro∣perly forgiuen vs, of God onely by meere fa∣uour, and for Christ our mediatour: sith also it is he alone, against whome we properly com∣mit sinne both mediatly and immediatly, whē as we breake his lawe:
and it is alwaies in the power onely of the creditour, to gratifie his debtors, and to forgiue their debts. Where∣upon Christ also, as man, prayed his father for them which crucified him, that he would par∣don them,
and forgiue them their offences: & when the Iewes said, vvho can forgiue sinnes but onely God? he partly by holding his peace, and partly by shewing a miracle confirmed it.
Wherefore in that, that Christ of his owne au∣thority forgaue sinnes, we with the fathers, do beleeue it may well bee concluded, he is true God: sith the same cannot bee done by any meere creature, but onely ministerially, or as being a minister (as they speak) & in the name and authoritie of God.
Which wee knowe was equallie giuen, not to one alone, but to all the Apostles, and so to all lawfull ministers of the gospell.