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 7, 2024.
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Can they worke true miracles, that is, such as do agree with the very things themselues, or onely counterfet?
Christ saith, Mat. 24.24. There shall arise false christs, and shal shew great signes and wonders. And therefore sometimes they shew true signes, that is, such in truth as they seeme to bec 1.1, not by their owne power, but vsing certaine hidden causes of nature, and yet but lies, because they are vsed to deceiue and to confirme a lied 1.2, and indeed not worthy the name of miracles; & yet the most of them be meere illusions and deceits, and legerdemaines, like to those of Simon Ma∣gus, Act. 8.9.10.11. For it is God alone that doth great wonderse 1.3, to wit, such as be done in truth, and be wonders indeed, whose cause is knowne to no mortall man, and such as are done without deceit,
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beyond the course of nature, and without meanes, and such as can by no meanes be effected by the course of nature: and which are appointed especially to set foorth the glorie of God, and to further mans saluation.