DIVINE ATTRIBUTES and ABSOLUTE PREDESTINATION

[JM]

JEROME ZANCHIUS
February 2, 1516 - November 19, 1590 Born Jerome Zanchi in Alazano, Italy, his parents died when he was fourteen at which time he entered the monastery of the Augustinian Order of Regular Canons. He was taught by Peter Martyr Vermigli, the greatest of the Italian Reformers. In 1551 he left Italy and accepted the professorship of Old Testament at the college of St. Thomas in Strasbourg. In 1553, Peter Martyr joined the College also. Zanchius remained at the College after Peter Martyr left for Zurich in 1553. In 1561, charges were brought against Zanchius by Johann Marbach of which he was exonerated.

In 1563 he left the College and pastored the Italian Protestand congregation in the Grisons in the city of Chiavenna. In 1568 he accepted the profesorship of theology at the University of Heidelberg. He produced many of his works at this time. With the accession of Ludwig VI, Lutheran dominance came to Heidelberg and Zanchius left for Neustadt. He remained there until his death while on a visit to Heidelberg. ​

OBSERVATIONS ON THE DIVINE ATTRIBUTES
Neccesary To Be Premised
In Order To Our Better Understanding
THE DOCTRINE OF PREDESTINATION
by
Jerome Zancius
1516 - 1590 ​

http://www.ondoctrine.com/2zanchiu.htm​

 

[JM]

Good looking fella, don't ya think?

 

[bradfordl]

Well, Maybe not so pretty, but he had to have plenty of sand to get up and walk out of the heart Roman Catholicism to stand for the truth.

 

[JM]

A Letter To The Rev. John Wesley Relative to His Pretended Abridgment of Zanchius on Predestination

by Augustus Toplady (1740-1778)

Hitherto your treatment of Zanchius resembles that of some clumsy, bungling anatomist: who in the dissection of an animal dwells much on the larger and more obvious particulars; but quite omits nerves, the lymphatics, the muscles, and the most interesting parts of the complicate machine. Thus, in your piddling extract from the pamphlet, you have thought proper to curtail, you only give a few of the larger outlines; without at all entering into the spirit of the subject, or so much as producing (so far from attempting to refute) any of the turning points, on which the argument depends. Wrench the finest eye that ever shone in a lady's head from its socket, and it will appear frightful and deformed: whereas, in its natural connection, the symetry and brilliancy, the expressiveness and the beauty, are conspicuous. So it often fares with authors. A detached sentence, artfully misplaced, or unseasonably introduced, maliciously applied, or unfairly cited, may appear to carry an idea the very reverse of its real meaning. But re-place dislocated passage, and its propriety and importance are restored. I would wish every unprejudiced person, into whose hands your abridgment of my translation has fallen, to suspend his judgment concerning it until he sees the translation itself. On comparing the two together, he will at once perceive how candid and honest you are; and what quantity of confidence may be reposed on your integrity as a citer.


http://homepage.mac.com/shanerosenthal/reformationink/attoptowes.htm

 

[Iosias]

Jerome Zancius co-authored the Heidelberg Catechism which is brilliant