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.

What is iustification?

It is not the giuing of the holy Ghost, regeneration, or the infusion of a new qualitie, or the preaching of Iustice, or if wee shall speake Philosophically not 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 mutation, or a motion toward the attayning of righteousnesse: but it is the sentence of the heauenly Iudge, whereby he doth in respect of the merit of Christ, of his owne meere grace and fauour, not impute vnto the sinner his sinne vnto death, but impu∣teth the righteousnesse of Christ offered in the Gospell to his owne glorie, and life eternall. Or, it is a free discharge from sinne and death, both at once, and an imputation of righteous∣nesse vnto life eternall, and to the glorie of God, and that for Christs sake, and his righteousnes, with both which being clothed wee appeare before the tribunall seat of God holy and vnblame∣able.