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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Catechisms, English.
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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 6, 2024.
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How doth the image of God shine in mans bodie?
1. Not in respect simply that it is a bodie, and endued with such a forme, but so farre foorth as the bodie is ioyned with a reasonable soule, carrieth with it some part of the image of God, and doth in some sort comprehend it in the whole world: whereupon also man is called* 1.1 a little world, wherin shineth the builder and master work∣man of the whole world.
2. Because the diuers members of the bodie, eyes, eares, mouth, tongue, hands, do represent the spirituall parts of God, that is to say, his spirituall perfections, wisedome, power, and the rest of Gods attributes, no otherwise then Heb. 8.5.9, 24. & 10.1. the tabernacle and the arke of the couenant, the table, vessels and sacrifices were representations of heauenly and spirituall things.
3. Because the gifts of the mind do make the bodie shine, euen as the light of the candle doth make the skinne of the lanthorne to shine, and the very righteousnesse and holinesse of the soule did re∣dound
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to the very bodie, and to the members of the bodie, and so by that meanes man did exercise by the body that soueraigntie and excellencie vpon all inferiour creatures; and caried in his counte∣nance a certaine soueraigne maiestie, by meanes whereof the beasts also did acknowledge him for their Lord. Gen. 2.20.
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