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 6, 2024.
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What degres were substituted vnto these?
Rather for exercise then for office sake. 1. Porters, who kept the gates of the Church, that they might let in penitentiaries, and keepe out wicked men from the Church, and such as were excommuni∣cated from the Sacraments.
2 Acoluthoi, followers, attendants and as it were, pages of Bi∣shops, being witnesses and imitators of all their speaches, and withall most readie seruants vnto them.
3 Lectores, or Readers, Ministers of Pastors and Doctors, rea∣ding so the Scriptures out of some high place, that within one yeare all the books of the Bible, for the more familier knowledge of the Scripture, might be read ouer.
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4 We read also in very ancient writers of Exorcists who vsing the name of God, and hauing the gift of miracles, by calling vpon Christ, and imposition of hands, cast out diuels Act. 19.23. But this office is ceased with the gift of miracles.* 1.1
5 In the Scriptures they are called the Cleargie who are the congregation of the faithfull, and flockes of sheepe, or the members of the Church,a 1.2 because they are the portion and inheritance of the Lord, 1. Pet. 5.3 but afterward the antient fa∣thers, did translate the name of Cleargie to the Colledge of Ec∣clesiasticall ministers, so as all students were called Cleargie men, who are maintained of their parents, or the Churches cost to be∣come ministers.
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