What time, or day, holy-day, or working day is fitting for baptisme?
In former times for that many beginners in religion came to the
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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"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 7, 2024.
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Church from the heathen, and desired to be partakers of bap∣tisme, there were certain daies apointed for them, namely, Easter & ƲƲhitsonday, which were therefore called the daies of baptisme, and diuers other daies, which customes by degree grew to this habit, that because in their baptisme they had new garmēts, & that such did alwaies appeare in new garments, hence came the white shirt which Infants weare in baptisme, not onely vnprofitably but superstitiously also: But although there were a certaine day ap∣pointed for circumcision: yet seeing we are not tyed to any cer∣taine dayes, neither infants nor they which are of more yeares, they may be baptised at any time when the assemblies come to∣gether to the hearing of Gods word and publike prayers, so it be done after Christ his institution, holily, comelily, and orderlya 1.1, least one day should seeme better than an other for the exercises of baptisme, Galat 4.10. Ye obserue daies and monethes, and times and yeares, I feare least I haue taken paynes amongst you in vaine.
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1 Cor. 14 40