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.

Shew me some testimonies of this particular Prouidence, concerning all creatures?

Psal. 147.8. Which couereth the heauen with clouds, and giueth raine to the earth in season, and maketh the grasse growe vpon the mountaines. ƲƲhich giueth snowe as wooll, and scattereth the hore frost like ashes. v. 16. ƲƲhich giueth to beasts their foode, and to the young rauens which call vpon him. v. 9. Christ speaketh thus. Mat. 5.45. Your heauenly father maketh his Sunne to arise, and he raineth vpon the iust and vniust. And Chap. 6.30. God clotheth the lilies and grasse of the field. Chap. 10.29.30. Are not two sparrowes solde for a farthing, and one of them falleth not to the ground without your father. Yea euen the haires of your head are nombred.

So God sent a winde vpon the Sea, and prepared a fish to swallowe Ionah, Iona. 1.4.17. He prepared a plant called Ricinus (which is a shrub comming nigh the hignesse of a tree, hauing leaues like the Plane tree, It is commonly called Palma Christi) which went ouer his head, and he also prepared a worme to destroy this plant and make it wither. Chap. 4, 6.7.

1. Sam. 2.21. God visited Anna, and she conceiued and bare three sonnes and two daughters. Deut. 30.20. He is thy life and the length of thy daies. Isai. 38.5. The Lord added to King Ezechias his life fifteen

yeares. Ierom. 10.23. The way of man is not his owne, that he can walke, and himselfe direct his steps.

Prov. 21.1. The heart of the King is in the hand of the Lord, and he turneth it which way he will. 1. Cor. 12.6. Who worketh all in all. And all these things are spoken of the particular proui∣dence of God.