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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VIII. The causes, why the doctrine of predestination is deliuered in the Scriptures.
For neither is the doctrine of the eternall free, and vnchangeable predestination deli∣uered in the holie scriptures, that we should neglect Christ, or despaire of saluation, or with securitie let loose the raines to our con∣cupiscence, or growe insolent: but contrarie∣wise for these especiall causes.
First that wee may knowe that without Christ none can be saued: sith the foundation of our whole sal∣uation, was fastened and laide in him before the world was made. Then, that in time of our temptations, wee, which beleeue in Christ, should strengthen our selues by the certaine∣tie of our saluation,
and so neither dispaire nor distrust: knowing the same to be certaine and sure in the eternall decree of god. Third∣lie that thereby wee might be stirred vp to the studie of faith in Christ, of holinesse, and of good works:
sith we are chosen, that we should be faithfull, and holie, and blamelesse in his sight, and walke in good works. Lastlie, that wee growe not proude, if we trust in Christ, and liue godlie: in Christ, and that he which glorieth may glo∣rie in the Lord:
sith god through his grace did from the beginning decree in Christ, that we should be such.