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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Catechisms, English.
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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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Who therefore died, and what he the the adiuncts of his death?
The sonne of God, at the mention of whom the whole frame and nature of things in this world trembled: for when he hanged vpon the crosse three hours before his death, there was an Eclipse of the Sunne against the order of nature, which lasted from the sixt houre to the ninth: whereupon followed darkenesse vpon all the earth. Mat. 27.45. that is through the whole world, as Tertullian vvill haue it, or (as others expound it) through the countrie of Iudea, vvhich Eclipse did betoken to the Ievves a most miserable blindnesse.
But when the Lord died, the vaile of the Temple was rent, that we may knowe how by his merit there is a way opened for vs into heauena 1.1, and that the ceremonies of the law were
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abrogated: the earth shooke: the rockes were rent asunder: the graues opened, out of which certaine of the Saints arising, went into the Citie. By which signes is euicted and prooued the in∣dignitie of the crime committed against the Sonne of GOD,a 1.2 the hardnesse of the wicked, and the power of Christs death is shewed, Of which things this effect also ensued, that many of Christs enemies were conuerted, so as they say: Of a trueth this was a iust man, and the Sonne of God. Math. 27.54. And all the companie that came together to that sight, beholding the things that were done, smote their breasts and returned Luke. 33.48.