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 15, 2024.
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What be the offices of Angels?
They are diuers and manifold: for they are the Ministers, chiefe seruants, and the Sergeants of God, which do attend vpon the com∣maundement of their King (which they execute willingly and rea∣dily)b 1.1 for the glorie of God, and the saluation of men, as we may gather out of the Psal. 104.4. Who maketh his Angels spirits, and his Ministers a flame of fire: and who doe mutually extoll their maker with hymnes, as Theodoret saith, The Angels ministring, is Psalmes singingc 1.2.
Againe, they be the seruants of Christ, euen as he is both man
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and Messias. So in that temptation which he endured against Satan in the wildernesse, we reade that the Angels ministred vnto him.* 1.3
Especially they be the seruants of the elect: Heb. 1.14. Are they not all ministring spirits, sent for the seruice of those who lay hold on the inheritance of saluation? Now they be the ministers of the elect in many respects: and first in their life time, and that either by dire∣cting, defending, and keeping the elect, according to that Psal. 91.11.12. He hath giuen his Angels charge of thee that they keepe thee in all thy wayes, least thy foot should dash against a stonea 1.4, and by defen∣ding their life from their enemies, and from all dangersb 1.5: or else by executing Gods iudgements against the enemies of the Church in the behalfe of the elect, as we may gather out of Gen. 19.10. 2. Kin. 19.35. Act. 12.23. Also by suggesting into the mindes of the godly holy cogitations, and by mouing of them and furthering of them to euery good thingc 1.6: for the good Angels neuer put into our mindes any thing contrary to the law of Godd 1.7. Also by helping them, and comforting of theme 1.8. Againe in the time of death, whilest that they do attend vpon the faithfull in the very pangs of death, and so carry their soules into the ioyes of heauen, as is cleare in the example of Lazarusf 1.9. Lastly, in the end of the world, when they shall gather to∣gether the bodies of all the faithfull, that being vnited againe to their soules, they may rise againe to lifeg 1.10. And they shall seperate the wicked from among the iust, and shall cast them into a fornace of fire, and shall leade these into the kingdome of heauen.