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 are the Epithites, whereby it is commended in Scripture?

1 In commendation it is called the kingdome. 1 of God. 2 of the father. 3 of heauen.b 1.1.

2 Metaphorically Abrahams bosomec 1.2, by a Metaphor taken from the bosome of parents, wo are said to haue and carie their little children in their bosome, because the faithfull like deerely beloued children being recouered out of this miserable world, are cherished and refreshed in the embracing of the father of all the faithfull, and are safe and free from all the perilous stormes of this life: And there is a place wherin Christ hath prepared vs a mansion, as himselfe declareth. Math. 8.11. Many shall come from the East, and from the West, & shall sit downe with Abraham & Isaack and Iacoh in the kingdome of heauen. Augustine, though where it should be,* 1.3 confesseth he knoweth not, yet defineth it to bee an habitation of secret rest, and affirmeth that therein li•••• the spirits of the blessed, and there they enioy the gladsome pre∣sence of God.

3 Analogically, or by proportion Paradise, or a place of delight and pleasantnessee 1.4, by allusion to that garden planted in Eden, of the situation whereof it is fond to dispute, seeing it is manifest that the vniuersall earth was made waste by the Deluge.

4 The house of the fathera 1.5.

5 Metonymically, the fulnesse of ioyesb 1.6.

6 The Lords ioyc 1.7.

7 The new, holy, and durable Ierusalem that shall bed 1.8.

8 An inheritance immortall, and vndefiled, and that withereth not, reserued in heauene 1.9.

9 The glorie of God, because that eternall life consisteth in the communication of Gods glorie, Rom. 3.23. All haue sinned and are destitute of the glorie of God.

10 Our glorie, for this is that alone, wherein we may rest safely. 1. Cor. 2.7. We speake the wisedome of God in a mysterie, euen the hid wisedome, which God had determined before the world vnto our glorie.

11 Restf 1.10.

12 Refreshingg 1.11.

13 Peaceh 1.12.

14 So great happinesse, as cannot be contained neither in the eies, nor eares, nor mind of any mani 1.13.

Notes

• b 1.1

  Math. 7, 21
• c 1.2

  Luk. 16, 22
• * 1.3

  Epist. 99, ad Evodion. con¦fese, Lib. 9, 3,
• e 1.4

  luk. 23.43.
• a 1.5

  Ioh. 14.2.
• b 1.6

  Psal. 16.11
• c 1.7

  Math. 25.21
• d 1.8

  Heb. 13.14 Reuel. 21.10
• e 1.9

  1. Pet. 1.4
• f 1.10

  2. Thess, 1.7
• g 1.11

  Act. 3.19
• h 1.12

  Luk. 1, 79,
• i 1.13

  Psal, 31, 20 Isai. 64, 4. 1. Cor. 2.9