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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"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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What is the contrarie hereunto?

The errour of the Atheists, who call death the last end of all things, and the destruction of the whole man, which was also the errour of the Sadduces, who professed that there was no Resur∣rection of bodies, and that there was a mortalitie of the Soules.

2. The 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Regeneration, and transmigra¦tion

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of the soule from one bodie to another, an errour of the Py∣thagoreans, who affirme that Euphorbus was turned into Pythago∣ras, and Homer into a Peacock. The errour also of the Chiliasts, who abusing that place. Reuel, chap. 20, ve. 5. (by which, a certaine number, for an indefinite is signified the time, wherin we remaine now vnder the protection of Christ in his kingdome, which is the church) Imagin that Christ shal raign on the earth a thousād years together with the Saints in great delights, & exceeding pleasant∣nesse of bodie, when on the other side the Scripture affirmeth, that Christs kingdom shall be eternall, and that there shall be no end to the blessednes of the elect, nor to the torment of the reprobate.

3. The errours of such as are curious, whereof some dreame that the soules shall rise with the bodies, as though man dyed wholy: others, as the Maniches, that the soules shall put on new bodies, in steede of the former (by that meanes making a creation of new bodies, not a resurrection of the same) others also, that the soules being separated from their bodies doe sleepe, and shall bee raised vp with the bodies.

4. The opinion of Hymenaeus, and Philetus, who not discerning the spirituall resurrection from the bodily, said the resurrection was past alreadiea 1.1.

5. Their Errour, who teach that by the resurrection, bodies shall be essentially changed into the nature of spirits.

6. The doating opinion of Origen, who taught that an Ayrie or diuine bodie should rise againe, but not a fleshie.

7. The errour of the Mahumedists, and Saracens, who imagine that meates and drinke shall in verie great abundance be ministred to the blessed, and that they shall haue plenteous exercise of car∣nall pleasure: moreouer also that the bruit beasts shall bee raised from the dead.

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