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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Title: 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.
Author: Bucanus, Guillaume.
Publication: Printed at London :: By George Snowdon, and Leonell Snowdon [, and R. Field],; 1606.
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Subject terms: Catechisms, English.
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Whether may the minister without perill of conscience ad∣mit all to the Lords Supper, seeing he cannot know who are worthie, and who are vnworthie?

As the Church iudgeth not of hidden things, that is to say, doth not prye into the secret corners of our hearts, but iudgeth the outward actions, hauing the Decalogue rightly vnderstood for a rule therein: so the ministers dutie is to leaue to God the iudgement of euerie mans heart, admitting all that are not tain∣ted with open crimes, but he must restraine those that are bewit∣ched with errors, repugners of the foundation of doctrine, blas∣phemers, heretickes, worshippers of Idols, drunkards, cozeners, theeues, tyrants, adulterers, euill and filthie speakers, and those that any other way liue vngodly, and walke not worthie of the Gospell, which giue no signes of repentance, the Ecclesiasticall Consistorie hauing first taken knowledge of them, for to them belongeth that of the Poet.

Procul hinc procul este profani. People profane and wanting grace. Packe hence and come not neare this place.

For Christ, giueth a weightie and serious prohibition, Giue not holy things vnto dogs. Mat. 7.6. Neither must we communicate with other mens sinnes. 1. Tim. 5.22. therefore Chrysostome saith, He would rather giue his bodie to be shamefully torne in peeces, then wit∣tingly, & willingly reach out the bodie and bloud of our Lord to a wic∣ked man, that liueth without repentance. And for this abuse Paule witnesseth, that among the Corinthians many were weake, and sicke, and many slept.