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 June 1, 2024.

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By what meanes doe wee in like manner communicate with the flesh of Christ?

Not by nature, as wee communicate with the flesh of Adam: nor yet by a naturall and corporall instrument, but by one super∣naturall and spirituall, that is, by faith alone created in vs, by that selfe same spirit, whereby Christ doth comprehend vsa 1.1, by which we doe receiue, lay hold vpon, and as it were by an instru∣mentall cause possesse Christ himselfe. Concerning which manner, Ephes. 3.17. the Apostle saith: That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith. Therfore wee are vnited to Christ by faith.

Therefore this vnion is made by the Spirit, in respect of Christ: and by faith, in respect of vs. Neyther is their any other man∣ner of vnion with Christ deliuered in the scriptures.

They erre therefore, which say, that faith is the formall cause of our vnion with Christ, or of our iustification, seeing that, it is, as it were a spirituall hand which receiueth Christ, and his me∣rits applied vnto it selfe by the holy Ghost.

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