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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Title: 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.
Author: Bucanus, Guillaume.
Publication: Printed at London :: By George Snowdon, and Leonell Snowdon [, and R. Field],; 1606.
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Is there such free will in man after the fall?

There can be no answer made simply to this question, but there is need of a twofold distinction: for mens actions are to be di∣stinguished, whereof some are naturall and sensuall, as to eate, to drinke, to moue from place to place: some morall and animall, or pertaining to the reasonable part of the soule, such are priuate ac∣tions, Oeconomicall or Politicall, also outward actions in Gods worship, and some are supernaturall or spirituall.

In the first sort of actions man hath choise left vnto him.

In the second, the minde is much darkened, the iudgement is not sound, nor the will chearefull, neither the strength able to per∣forme. Thereupon came that speech of Medea.

Ʋideo meliora proboque, Deteriora sequor. I see the better and approoue it. But still the worse my mind doth couet.

In the third kind another distinction must be vsed, for a man after the fall, is considered in three respects, before his conuersion and regeneration, in his conuersion, and after his conuersion.