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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For Damascene declaring this after he had taught, how those things which are of the flesh, are giuen to the vvorde, and likewise how the things of the word are communicated to the flesh, namely, according to this manner of praedica∣••ation: he adioyneth the cause thereof, saying: by reason of the meeting together of the partes one with the other: and the hypostaticall or personall vni∣on: & in the 4. chapter. This is the manner (saith he) of mutuall predication, vvhenas one nature doth giue the proprieties of one nature to the other which it doth in respect of the personall identitie, & the ioy∣ning of the natures one with the other.

Now this ioyning of the natures one with the other, is the very vnion, that is an inward, absolute and most perfect vniting them toge∣ther. As Damascene both els where, & especi∣ally in his 4. booke and 19. chapter expoūdeth

it, saying: But the diuine nature once going through the flesh, gaue vnto the flesh also, an vnspeakable go∣ing to the diuine nature: vvhich vvee call the vni∣on.