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.

What manner of speech do the Angels vse, either toward God, or amongst themselues, or vnto men?

Not a bodily or carnall (vnlesse when they assume vnto them∣selues bodies) but a spirituall and heauenly, whereby without any audible voice, or vocall speech and sound, they do spiritually and altogether angelically insinuate, instill, and communicate euery one his minde as he will, either into the minde of another Angell or of man: or else doth shew and as it were vnfold such things as he will in his owne vnderstanding as it were in a cleare glasse to be seene of another. And therefore that which Paul saith, 1. Corin. 13.5. If I should speake with the tongues of men and Angels: is not to be vnder∣stood properly, but by a figure called hyperbole, or an excessiue speech, and by way of supposition, and by a concession or granting that they haue tongues: as also that Gal. 1.8. If an Angel from heauen should preach vnto you another Gospell besides that which I haue prea∣ched vnto you. So bread is ascribed vnto the Angelsa 1.1, that is most daintie foode.

Notes

• a 1.1

  Psal. 78.25.