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 May 2, 2024.
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May a Christian man, being lawfully called, by the Law of God, and in a good conscience become a Magistrate?
Surely he may.
1. Because magistracie is the good ordinance and disposition of Goda.
2. Because the Gospel doth not abrogate policies & politicke administration, no more then it doth physick or Architecture the sciēce of building, onely it proclaimeth spirituall righteousnesse, which is by faith in Christ.
3 Because the Magistrate is cōmaunded to serue the Lord in feare, and to kisse the sonne of Godb, that is, by this symbolicall note of subiection, to acknowledge and professe Christ his Lord. Now this no man can better doe then a true Christian, who aboue o∣thers is indewed with the knowledge, faith, and feare of God.
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4. God commaunds praiers to be made for the Magistrates Ierem. 29.7. Pray for the kingdome of Babilon, for in the peace there∣of shall bee your peace. Thus Abraham prayed for king Abimeleckc, & Iacob blessed the king of Egyptd, & 1. Tim. 2.1. I exhort you (saith Paul) that praiers and supplications and thankesgiuings be made for all men, for Kings and such as are set in authoritie, yet the magi∣strates of those times were Infidels, it followeth therefore ne∣cessarily, that magistracie is both a good thing, and acceptable to God, for we must not pray for the establishing of that which is euill.
5 We haue also examples of such as bare rule, and yet were Christs most faithfull disciples, such were Ioseph of Arimathea, Nicodemus, Sergius Paulus, Erastus and many others, and such we read that the Centurions were,e that I may say nothing of those most holy Emperors, Constantine. Theodosius, and others, who defended the church both by publick authority and victo∣rious armes.