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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VII. Errors.
We cōdemne those impious dotages, both of the philosophers, which taught that mens soules were mortall; and of those heritickes, which thought that the soules of all men once separated from the bodies were in some close places, where they slept, that is, were depriued of all sense and operation of the minde: or els waked, but yet rested, till they resumed againe new bodies, and thē were admitted into hea∣uen, or else thrust into hell: as also those, which dreamed that the soules of many godlie men, were cleansed by a certaine fire in purgatory, from the reliques of their sinnes, and their suf∣fered temporall punishments. Wee disallow
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also those, which do not distinguish betweene heauen where we read that the godly are, frō hell and the deepes, where wee read that the wicked shal be: but that make a difference be∣tweene them both, only in this, that some are made blessed, some accursed, though they shal be all in one place together. Neither can wee allow of those, which saye, that if not the cer∣taine daye and howre, yet the certaine time, month or yeare, may be known & set downe, when the Lord will come, and end this world: notwithstanding that Christ said, it is not for you to knowe the times. Yea and wee accuse those skorners; of whome Peter spake, which thinke that the world shall euer remaine thus:
denying that there is any life to come & laugh∣ing at it. We also condemne those which de∣nie the resurrection of the dead; as also those which dreame, that they shall not haue the same, but other new bodies. Also we condēne those that taught, that our bodies after the re∣surrection shalbe so spirituall: that they shall be like to a spirite, or as the ayre, and not bee seene nor felt, as some haue also fayned the bodie of Christ was after his resurrection: and since haue also forged, and impudently lyed, that his bodie was, as it were chaunged into his diuine nature, so that it could no longer be called a creature.