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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Title: 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.
Author: Bucanus, Guillaume.
Publication: Printed at London :: By George Snowdon, and Leonell Snowdon [, and R. Field],; 1606.
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What is the third part of Ecclesiasticall power?

IƲdiciarie, or Iurisdiction Ecclesiastical, altogi∣ther to be distinguished from ciuill, and is com∣monly called power, and it is another part or kinde of the power of the keyes, distinguished from the former: for that the first, whereof Mat. 16.19. and Ioh. 20.23. which is the office of teaching or of preaching the Gospell com∣mitted to the Pastors, doth properly appertaine vnto them: but this doth belong to the moral discipline of the Church, and repres∣sing of offencs, commended to the Church: which the Graecians cal 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 or 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, that is discipline, correction, institution, wher∣of Christ speaketh Mat. 18.17.18. If a brother do not heare the Church, let him be as a Heathen or Publican vnto thee: verily I say vnto you, whatsoeuer you shall binde on earth shall be bound in heauen, and whatsoeuer you shall loose, shall be loosed: for the Church doth bind whom she doth excommunicate, and she doth loose when she againe receiues men into her society.