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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...

Although the great and ever-blessed God is a being absolutely simple and infinitely remote from all shadow of composition, He is, nevertheless, in condescension to our weak and contracted faculties, represented in Scripture as possessed of divers Properties, or Attributes, which, though seemingly different from His Essence, are in reality essential to Him, and constitutive of His very Nature. Of these attributes, those on which we shall now particularly descant (as being more immediately concerned in the ensuing subject) are the following ones: I., His eternal wisdom and foreknowledge; II., The absolute freedom and liberty of His will; III., The...