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For as we hold not with them, which think God is therefore called omnipotent: because simplie whatsoeuer can bee saide or thought,
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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whether it be good or ill, or if the same implie a contradiction, he can doe the same: so nei∣ther doe we subscribe to their opinion, which hold that God is called and is omnipotent for no other cause, but for that he can do whatso∣euer he wil: that his power should so stretch no farther then his will: but we beleeue he is ther∣fore almighty: in that besides he can do what∣soeuer he will, he can also both will, & bring to passe, innumerable things which he will ne∣uer will, nor bring to passe.