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 June 7, 2024.
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By what testimonies?
1▪ By that admirable worke of Creating the whole world of nothinga 1.1.
2. By famous miracles, as namely, by deliuering the children of Israel out of Egypt. Exod. 20.2. By leading them through the red sea without wetting of their feeteb 1.2. By feeding them without anie ordinarie bread, for the space of fortie yeares in the wildernessec 1.3. By causing the Sunne to stand still, Iosua. 10.13. And by causing the Sunne to go backward at the prayers of king Hezechiah. 2. King. 20 11. By raising of the deadd 1.4. 1. Kin. 17.22. And by many other won∣derfull workes and miracles.
3. By diuerse visions, whereby the Lord did offer himselfe to be seene of men in visible formes and likenesses. In which manner he
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appeared vnto Adam, both before and after his fall; to Noah before and after the floud, to Abraham ten times, to Isaac twice, to Iacob seuen times, to Moses often, and so to diuerse others.
4. By foretelling of things to come, by the Prophets, and by the euent of the same.
5. By promising and exhibiting of Christ the Messias, Ioh. 1.18. No man hath seene God at anytime, the Sonne who is in the bosome of the Father, he hath reuealed him. And therefore Christ saith to Phi∣lip, Ioh. 14.9. He that seeth me seeth the Father.
6. By the inward, liuely, and effectuall reuelation of the holy Ghost, which is onely bestowed vpon the Elect.