ƲƲhy doe you call this Function a Ministery?
Because it is not a chiefdome, Dominion, Magistracie or imperious office: but rather 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 care, and Diaconia ser∣uice
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],
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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 15, 2024.
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yea a painfull seruice, and ministerie. Neyther are the Ministers of the Church (as Ministers) such rulers or Lords as may chalenge to themselues dominion ouer eyther the Cleargy, or mans conscience, or the members of the Church, or vnto ought to haue power to make lawes, and translate kingdomes, but they are the seruants and ministers of that one Prince and Lord of Lords Christ Iesus. For after this sorte to domineere, Christ expressly forbiddeth his Disciples both by word, and ex∣ample;* 1.1 by word. Luke. 22.25.26. The kings of the Gentiles rule ouer them, it shall not be so with you: and by example, verse. 27 and Iohn: 13.4. and. 13. yea and Peter himselfe exhorteth all Pas∣tors to be not as Lords, &c. but as ensamples to the flock of Christ. This made Bernard writing to Eugenius the Pope, to say, Dominion was plainely forbidden the Apostles, be not thou ther∣fore bold to Challenge to thy selfe either ruling Apostleship, or being Apostolicke, rule: Thou art quite forbidden both. If thou wilt needs haue both together, in the end thou shalt loose both.
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* 1.1
Rom, 1.1. Phil. 1.1 Iac. 1.1. 2. Pet. 1.1 Iude. 1.