Institutions of Christian religion framed out of Gods word, and the writings of the best diuines, methodically handled by questions and answers, fit for all such as desire to know, or practise the will of God. Written in Latin by William Bucanus Professor of Diuinitie in the Vniuersitie of Lausanna. And published in English by Robert Hill, Bachelor in Diuinitie, and Fellow of Saint Iohns Colledge in Cambridge, for the benefit of our English nation, to which is added in the end the practise of papists against Protestant princes.
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Institutions of Christian religion framed out of Gods word, and the writings of the best diuines, methodically handled by questions and answers, fit for all such as desire to know, or practise the will of God. Written in Latin by William Bucanus Professor of Diuinitie in the Vniuersitie of Lausanna. And published in English by Robert Hill, Bachelor in Diuinitie, and Fellow of Saint Iohns Colledge in Cambridge, for the benefit of our English nation, to which is added in the end the practise of papists against Protestant princes.
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Bucanus, Guillaume.
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Printed at London :: By George Snowdon, and Leonell Snowdon [, and R. Field],
1606.
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Catechisms, English.
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"Institutions of Christian religion framed out of Gods word, and the writings of the best diuines, methodically handled by questions and answers, fit for all such as desire to know, or practise the will of God. Written in Latin by William Bucanus Professor of Diuinitie in the Vniuersitie of Lausanna. And published in English by Robert Hill, Bachelor in Diuinitie, and Fellow of Saint Iohns Colledge in Cambridge, for the benefit of our English nation, to which is added in the end the practise of papists against Protestant princes." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A69010.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.
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What is God?
For the word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 it is either deriued of a verbe that signifieth to runne, because God runneth through all things: or else of a word that signifieth to behold, because he beholdeth all things, or else of a word that signifieth to feare, because men are moued for feare to worship him. And God is an Essence, spirituall, incomprehensible, almightie, immortall, infinite, loue it selfe, mercie it selfe, iustice it selfe, holinesse it selfe, puritie it selfe, goodnesse it selfe, wisedome it selfe, long suffering it selfe, and bountifulnesse it selfe: which is the Father who
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from all eternitie begat the Sonne, coeternall with himselfe, and of the same substance with the Father: and the Sonne not made nor created, but begotten of the Father from all eternitie: and the holy Ghost proceeding from them both, the Father and the Sonne, the Creator and conseruer of all things, the Redeemer and sanctifier of the Electa. Which is no definition (for he that is supersubstantiall, and incomprehensible, cannot be defined) but such a description as sufficiently containeth all such things as in this life are necessarie for vs to know, for the seruice of God and our saluation.
Notes
〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉currere, vel〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉cernere, or〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉timor. God is Ieho∣uah Elohim.