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 June 1, 2024.

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What is the fourth difference?

It is taken from the measure of the Spirit, because now is grea∣ter abundance of the Spitit in the New Testament, and a greater knowledge then was before vnder the old testament, if you con∣sider the bodie it selfe of the Churcha 1.1. For although there were many vnder the Old testament, who seeme to haue beene en∣dewed by God, with greater gifts, then any vnder the New: yet wee must iudge of the abundance and greater efficacie of the spirit vnder the new Testament, not in respect of euery particu∣lar man amongst the faithfull, but of all in generall, or the whole Church together.

Hereupon Ioel. 2.28. I will poure out of my Spirit vpon all flesh, that is, I will giue it in great abundance. Hence also the old testa∣ment is called by Paul a testament of the Letterc 1.2. But the new is Spirituall, because God doth shew more power of the spirit in the

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preaching of the Gospell, then of the Law.

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