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 May 28, 2024.

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Whereof is it called Baptisme?

ΠΑρὰ τό Βάτπειν which is to dip, or to die, moysten, & consequent∣ly to wash: whereof 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, which is to drench, to rince, & to clense, and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 to be dip∣ped, or died, (which not∣withstanding differeth from the word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 which is to sinke downe to the bottom, and to be drowned) thereof is 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, that is an immersion, tincture, so by consequent an ablution, and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 as it were a bathing fonte made of wood or stone, wherin we are drēched, because we wold be washed, & 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 he that dippeth, or as it were dieth, where of commeth 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 one rebaptising, and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, which is opposite to a Baptiser, or impugneth baptisme.

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