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 14, 2024.
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••s man onely the image of God, or made after his image?
1. Christ is the naturall, true, and most perfect image of God the Fathera 1.1, both as he is the eternall Sonne. For he is begotten of the substance of the Father, not made: and therefore is called the Character of his person, Heb. 1.3. As also, as he is manifested in the flesh, because the whole disposition, perfection, and as it were the face of the Father is beheld in the Sonne, being made visible by the fleshb 1.2. Moreouer, lest we should be ouerwhelmed with the cleare beholding of God, the Son being clothed with flesh is in stead of a
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glasse to vs, wherein the Father doth set before vs that his infinite Maiestie, goodnes, wisdome, truth, iustice, to be seene and beheld of vs. Therfore he that seeth me (said Christ) seeth my Fathera 1.3.
2. The Angels also are made after the image of God, because they also are called the sons of Godb 1.4, and they were created spiritu∣all, immortall, and iust. And Christ teacheth plainely, that we shall be truly blessed, and therefore like to God, when we shall in heauen be made euen as the Angels of God, Mat. 22.30.
3. Man is called the image of God, 1. Cor. 11.7. and he is said to be made after the image of God, not onely Adam but also Eua, Gen. 1.26.c 1.5. But each of these latter images of God in Angels and men is of Gods free mercie.