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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"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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How proue you that mariage was instituted by God?
Gen. 2.18. God said (that is, in his most wise counsel decreed and or∣dained) it is not good for man to be alone, let vs make an helper or com∣panion of his life like vnto him: and when he could finde none for Adam before him, God brought vpon him a dead sleepe, and whilest he was asleepe (and so being brought as it were into an extasie, voide of griefe, and was naturally ignorant what was done) took one of his ribs and thereof made woman, whom he brought vnto Adam, who being led by the spirit of God, did prophesie, saying, This is bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh, she shall be called Ischa, that is, Vira, Mannesse, be∣cause she was taken out of man, being as it were alter-ipse, a second self: For this cause shall man leaue his father and mother and cleaue vnto his wife, and they shall be one flesh.
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And after the deluge, God confirmed mariage, and blessed it, saying, Increase and multiplyb. At length the Sonne of God himselfe restored it, being somewhat decaidc, honoring the same both with his presence and miraculous giftd.
To conclude, God not onely instituted mariage, but also stir∣reth vp mutuall loue betweene the bride and the bridegroome, and furdereth mariagee.
Whence it followeth, first that mariages are not by chance, or depending on mans arbiterment onely, but are fatall, and gouerned by Gods prouidence. Secondly, that mariage is a good and a holy thing. Thirdly, that it is to be vndertaken in the feare of God, and inuocation for his direction.