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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Augustine indeede thus interpreteth this place: of the creede to the Catechumeni.

He ascended into heauen, beleeue it: hee sit∣teth at Gods right hand, beleeue it: To sitt, vn∣derstand to dwell: as wee saye of any man, in such a cuntrey he hath sitt three yeares: so ther∣fore beleeue yee, that Christ dwelleth on the right hand of God, there he is. Let not your heart aske ye this question, what doth he? doe not seeke, for that which it is not lawfull to finde: there he is, it sufficeth vs: he is blessed, and of this blessednes which is called the fa∣thers right hand, the name of this blessednes it selfe is called his fathers right hand. For if we take it carnally, then because he is at the right hand, the father should be at the left hand: and is there any reason thou shouldest so set them, the sonne at the right hand, and the father at the left? There all is the right hand, seing there is nothing but blessednes.

Also: this sitting of his beloued, ye must not

take it to be ment of the humane partes, as if the father satt on the left hand, and the sonne satt at the right hand: but by the right hand, vnderstand that power, which that man being entertained of God, receiued; namely that he might afterwardes come to iudge, which be∣fore came to be iudged.

Also: who is he, that sitteth at Gods right hand? the man Christ. For in that he is God, he was euer with the father, and of the father: & when he came forth vnto vs, he departed not from the father; for to be God, is to be wholly euery where. Therefore the sonne is wholly with the father, whole in heauen, whole on earth, whole in the virgins wombe, whole on the crosse, whole in hell, whole in paradise, whether he brought the theefe. Not at diuers times or diuers places do we say he is whole e∣uery where, as nowe whole in one place, and a∣nother time whole in another place, but he is whole alwayes, and in all places.

Also: But by this that the sonne is said to sitt at the fathers right hand, it is shewed, that the man, whome Christ tooke vpon him, hath recei∣ued the power of a iudge.

Also: The man, which Christ tooke on him, now raigneth sitting at the fathers right hand.

Also: But, in that he is God, and equall to the father, and alwaies iudgeth, he is euer pre∣sent: but he shall come a redeemer in that forme, wherein he ascended.

Notes

• Lib. 1. ca. 4
• Ibid.
• Lib. 2. ca. 4
• Lib. 3. ca. 7
• Ibidem.
• Lib. 4. ca. 7
• Ibidem.