Who is the efficient cause or author of Christs ascension?
Christ himself, who by the Almighty power of his Godhead did carie vp his humane nature, & bring it into heauen, but because
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 15, 2024.
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the diuine power of the Father and Sonne is all one, this remo∣uing into heauen, (as also the raysing of him vp againe) is as∣cribed also to the power of the Father. Act. 2.33. By the right hand (that is by the power and vertue) of God he hath beene exalted, and hath receiued of his father the promise of the holy Ghost, and cap. 5.30. The God of our fathers hath raised vp Iesus vvhom ye slevv and hanged on a tree. Him (I say) hath God lift vp vvith his right hand to be a Prince and a Sauiour. But his humane nature hauing gotten agility and nimblenes of body by the resurrection, mouing it selfe by the appointment and commaund of the Godheed went vpon high, and ascended truely and properly, and there∣fore it may be called a ministring or seruing cause of the as∣cension.