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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"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 14, 2024.
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The efficient cause and effectuall by it selfe, is one, namely, the Holy Ghost, of which it is saide. Ezech. 36.26. I will giue you a newe heart, a newe spirit wil I put in the middest of you, and I will take the stonie heart out of your flesh, and I will giue you a fleshie heart, and will make you to walke in my commaundements.
The instrumentall cause, or meanes, is the word of God. Rom. 10.17. Faith is by hearing, and hearing by the word of God, by which word being read, heard and thought vpon, the Holy Ghost be∣commeth regularlie effectuall, enlightning the minde and turning the will.
The subiect of Conuersion, is the vnderstanding and will of man, which notwithstanding is saide also to concurre, not to the conuersion, but in the conuersion, because no conuersion is wrought without the thing to be conuerted; but in that regard, that it is mooued not of it selfe, but by the Holy Ghost, that be∣ing driuen forward thereby, it worketh, & of vnwilling becōming willing, it willeth. For the will is not onely the subiect of Gods o∣peration, which the spirit of God worketh in the elect, but it is al∣so such an instrument, which beeing renewed and mooued by the Holie Ghost, doth it selfe also worke together with it, and moo∣ueth it selfe.