The institutions of Christian religion, written by the reuerend father, M. Iohn Caluin, compendiously abridged by Edmond Bunnie Bachellour of diuinitie; and translated into English by Edward May
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- The institutions of Christian religion, written by the reuerend father, M. Iohn Caluin, compendiously abridged by Edmond Bunnie Bachellour of diuinitie; and translated into English by Edward May
- Author
- Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564.
- Publication
- Imprinted at London :: At the three Cranes in the Vinetree, by Thomas Dawson, for William Norton,
- 1580.
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- Subject terms
- Catholic Church -- Controversial literature.
- Reformed Church -- Doctrines -- Early works to 1800.
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"The institutions of Christian religion, written by the reuerend father, M. Iohn Caluin, compendiously abridged by Edmond Bunnie Bachellour of diuinitie; and translated into English by Edward May." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A69054.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024.
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THere is in mans mind, euē by na∣turall instinction, a certain féeling of the Godhead, and the same so ample and large, that they are condemned by their owne testimonie, that worship not God whom they acknowledge to be their maker: But there is no nation so barbarous, that is not touched with the same féeling: This also the Idola∣ters them selues doe sufficientlie con∣fesse, when they had rather worship a blocke and a stone, then be thought to haue no God.
2 Wherefore it is most vaine, that some do say, That religiō was deuised by the suttletie and craft of a few, to kéepe the people better in awe: yea and the wicked them selues also doe oftentimes féele, wil they nill they, that which they are not desirous to knowe of God, and woulde haue extin∣guished.
3 This féeling of God is so engra∣ued in the mindes of men, that neither forgetfulnesse nor malice can vtterlie at anie time put it out: although héere∣vnto many bend their whole force, and
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séeme to haue nothing more in their de∣sires. And so all they doe degenerate them from the order of their creation, which bestow not all the thoughts and actions of their life to that scope.