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 May 23, 2024.
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Who, and what are we which do vowe?
Men, but iustified by faith (for otherwise if we be enemies vnto god our gifts or vowes shall not be acceptable to him) & also free. Therefore Num. 30.4.6.7. Children vnder gouernment of Parents, a wife, her husband being aliue, a seruant not yet set at libertie, if they had vowed, their vowes might be bro∣ken:) Therefore Anna, but by the consent of her husband, or by a peculiar inspiration from god, could not haue beene able to vowe, that Samuell all his life time should serue in the taberna∣cle of the Lorde.
From whence we are admonished that a vowe is to be fitted according to our abilitie, that is to that which God hath graunt∣ed to vs) & must be suteable to our calling. Wherefore the vowe of those forty murtherers, who bound themselues with an oth, say∣ing that they would eat no meate, vntill they had slaine Paul, not one∣ly was rash, but wicked, because they would make subiect to their power, the life and death of a manb So of Iephte vowing that he would offer to god for a burnt offering whatsoeuer should come first out of the house, he vndertooke ac rash vowe, or pro∣ceeding from ignorance of the lawe, concerning the redemp∣tion of a vowe.