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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Title: 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.
Author: Zanchi, Girolamo, 1516-1590.
Publication: [Cambridge] :: Printed by Iohn Legat, printer to the Vniuersitie of Cambridge,; 1599.
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VI. What we properlie call originall sinne.

Wherefore we doe so saie, that this haeredi∣tarie fault and contagion of nature is sinne in all men, and so we vse to cal it originall sinne: that we do not separate it from the guiltines and imputation of the first disobedience. E∣uen as likewise on the other side, we doubt not but the righteousnes of christians, doth con∣sist, not so much in the regeneration of nature, which is made by the spirit of Christ, & which is vsuallie called by the name of inherēt righ∣teousnesse; as in the imputation of the perfect obedience, and righteousnes of Christ, whose members we are.