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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Whereof then was the Soule created?
Not of the Essence of God, as the Manichees thought (for what∣soeuer is of him, is the same with himselfe, neither is that any other then the Sonne and holy Ghost) but it was by God, not of the hea∣uenly bodies, not of the elements, fire or aire, not of the temperature and composition of the humours of the hodie, not at all aduenture made of the motes (for in these as Tully saith in his booke of Tuscul. quaest. there is nothing that hath in it the force of memorie, vnder∣standing, thought, that is able to remēber things past, foresee things to come, and can comprehend things present, all which are things onely diuine) but altogether created of nothing, euen as it is also created of nothing in euery particular mana 1.1. For which cause God is called the Father of spirits, Heb. 12.9. And indeed Paul saith well out of Aratus, that we are the generation of God, Act. 17.28. but in re∣gard of the qualitie, not the substance, to wit, so farre forth as we be
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adorned with heauenly gifts: in like sense as the Pharises are cal∣led a generation of vipers, Mat. 3.7.