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.

But may not God seeme mutable or vnlike himselfe, seeing hee hath changed that which once hee purposed?

No in no case, for neither hath hee changed his purpose, nor done any thing disagreeing with it: but hee sheweth himselfe most wise, because in diuerse ages he knoweth how to vse diuerse meanes, to bring his elect to the knowledge of their saluation in Christ, according as hee saw the estate of both, that is, as both old and latter times required: Euen as the Physition taketh one course of cure in a childe, another in a man of ripe age, according to the diuersitie of their constitutions: and yet can hee not therefore bee tearmed inconstant or vnlike himselfe. Therefore Paule, Ephes. 3.10. calleth this dispensation of the couenant, the manifolde and diuerse wisdom of God, because God in his wisdome, doth in other maner call the Gentiles, then in old time he did the Iewes.