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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But doe we not make God the Author of euill, by this meanes.
Farre be it from vs: for the wicked are so set on worke by God, that they also play their owne parts: to wit, by their depraued counsell, purpose and will, for the euill which they will, they will it voluntarily, freely and without compulsion or violent constraint: as also doe the euill An∣gels.
Againe, God doth not infuse malice into the willes of the wicked, as he infuseth goodnesse into the hearts of the god∣ly, neyther doth he compell, or allure their willes to sinne: but he onely mooueth euill, or sinning willes, such as hee findeth them become by the corruption which hath ensued the falling away of diuels and men from God: such I say, he mooueth, enclyneth, turneth, and directeth wisely, iustly mightily, where, when, how, and as farre as he pleaseth, either
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mediately or immediatly to follow or auoide obiects, that they (who purpose no such thing) may fulfill that which the hand and Counsell of God hath decreeda 1.1. Moreouer, good writers haue v∣sed thus to speake, that God indeede worketh in the Godly and by the godly; but (say they) he worketh by the wicked, but not simply in the wicked.