Vpon the first chapter aphorisme. 4.
Whereas we haue giuen the first place, next after the canonicall books, to the Apocryphi in the volume of the Bible: we did it, induced
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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- 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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by the authoritie of the greek and latine chur∣ches, who did alwaies giue that honour vnto them, that they should be ioyned with the ca∣nonicall books. See the places in Hierome, Cyprian, and the councell of Laodicea, cyted in the confession the first chapter & fift apho∣risme. Moreouer, we spake of books, not of any manner of writinges. For otherwise wee preferre the generall creeds, before the Apo∣cryphi.