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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.
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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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But doth not a prayer made with these conditions, if it mak∣eth to the glorie of God, if it be wholesome for vs, disagree with the words of Iames, Chap. 1.6. who biddeth vs to aske without wauering?

Noe; for it is one thing to aske with wauering, which Iames forbiddeth, because it is contrarie to faith; and another thing with a condition. For a faithfull man doubteth not but that god hea∣reth

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his praiers, when as he hath a certaine promise of Goda 1.1, because if he giueth not that which is asked, truely he bestow∣eth that which is better: whereupon Bernard, vnum e duobus spe∣rare indubitanter possumus, quoniam aut dabit quod petimus, aut quod nobis nouerit esse vtilius, that is to say; one of the two, we may vn∣doubtedly hope for, because he will either giue that which we aske, or that which he knoweth to be more profitable for vs. And this thing the name of Father, most good, most wise, omnipotent doth declare.

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