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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What kind of matter was that which God brought foorth of nothing in the beginning?

1. It was in regard of substance, partly earthie, partly watrie, and partly slimie, which is expressed by the name of Earth, and Slime, and Waters.

2. In regard of the quantitie, it was exceeding great, and as it were a Chaos without a bottome. For it was a rude, vnformed, and indigested heape, in respect of the formes after following: or as Mo∣ses calleth it, Tohu, and Bohu, that is, emptie and voide, rawe, and impolished, which the seuentie Greeke Interpreters of the old Te∣stament call 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, and the Philosophers called Chaos.

3. In regard of the qualitie, it was darke and obscure, that is, void of all light, vertue and efficacie: ouer which houered not any wind or ayre, which as yet were not made, but the spirit of the Lord (of the which the Angell speaketh to Marie, Luk. 1.35.) euen like vnto an henne when she sitteth vpon her egges, and sustained all that whole masse, and cherished it, and prepared it to receiue all formes, out of which the visible heauens, and all the elements were produced and framed by the power of the word of God. (But those things which are not seene, were made immediatly of nothing,) out of which also the light was brought the first day: as the Apostle speaketh: God, who commaunded the light to shine out of darknesse, 2. Cor. 4.6.