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 2, 2024.
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ƲƲhat Analogie and agreement is there of the Signe, with the thing signified in Baptisme?
Verie great: for euen as the water doth wash the body, and the filth thereof: so the bloud of Christ by his merit doth wash away our sins, and spirituall spots: for his spirit doth sanctifie vsd. And like as euery generation cōsisteth of moyst & watery matter (Wherevpon some Philosophers, as Thales, haue said, that water, was the beginning of all things) so our regeneration is by the holy Ghost in Baptisme, who is often signified by the name of water: for euen as water prepareth the earth to bring forth fruit, and quencheth thirst: So the holy Ghost, that same which sate v∣pon the watersa, maketh vs fit for good workes, and quencheth in vs the thirsting after terrene things, and hereof good workes are called the fruites of the spiritb, and Christ saith; who so thirsteth, let him come to mee and drinke, for hee that drinketh shall neuer thirst; but this hee spake of the spirit which they that beleeue should receiuec. Secondly, the sprinkling with water doth plainly note the sprink∣ling of the bloud of Christ for the remission of sinnes, and impu∣tation of righteousnesse: but the staying vnder the water, though but a while, setteth as it were before our eyes, the death, buriall, and mortification of our natural corruption, the old Adam (by the vertue of the death and buriall of Christ) which is the first part of our regenerationd. And the being taken out, the reuiuing of the newe man, and newnesse of life, yea, and proportionally, our re∣surrection to comee.