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.

VVhich are the principall causes of repentance. i. what things ought to prouoke vs to the hastening of our repentance?

1. Their certaintie of our life: we must therefore watch & pray, because wee know neither that hower nor that day, least wee bee sodainely ouerwhelmed with Gods iust iudgement. Matth. 25.13.

2. By the dangerous delaying of repentance, there is gathered together a storehouse or heape of our manifold sinnes, and of the wrath of God, and of punishments. Rom. 2, 5. Thou after thine hardnesse, and heart that cannot repent, heapest vnto thy selfe wrath against the day of wrath and of the declaration of the iust iudgement of God.

3. The offence of the Angels: for as they reioyce at the repen∣tance of sinners. Luc. 15.7.10. So, without doubt, they are grieued for their impenitencie.

4. The dangerous alienation from God, and finally, induration; for the longer repentance is deferred, the more difficult it becom∣meth. Pro. 22.6. A young man walking according to his way, euen when he is old, will not depart from it. And late repentance is seldom true repentance.

5. An euill conscience, then which, nothing is more grieuous, nothing more miserable.

6. The stumbling block wee lay befoe others, and the guilt of their sin. Hence is that commination of Christ. Luk 17.1. Wee be to

the man by whome offence commeth.

7. The depriuation of the ioyes of the holy Ghost, and of spi∣rituall comforts.

8. The delights of Sathan: For the sinnes of men (as one of the auncient writers hath saide) are the delicates or dainties of the Diuell.

9. The thinking of the tragical examples vpon the impenitent, as, the Angels that fell, the Sodomites, the Egyptians, the Iewes, the Churches of the East, and other impenitent sinners.