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A69010	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.; Institutiones theologicae. English	Bucanus, Guillaume.	1606 (1606)	STC 3961; ESTC S106002	729,267	922

they be men of courage that is stout mightie or strong that is indued with authoritie fortitude and constancie of minde least they bee caried with perturbations yea they must be louers of all vertues especially of sobrietie chastitie and honest conuersation to this wee may referre that which is spoken of the election of Deacons Act. 6.3 Appoint yee brethren seauen men from amongst you men of good report full of the holy Ghost and wisdome whom wee may appoint to this buisinesse What titles are giuen to Magistrates in the Scriptures 1. They are called Elohim or Gods and sons of the most high a Exod. 22.28 Ps 82.1.6 not by nature but by office and dignitie that is as it were the Vicegerents and Images of God himselfe 2. Nourcing Fathers and nourcing mothers 3. Ministers of God 4. Sheepheards as Homer cals his Agamemnon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a sheepheard of the people 5. Fathers as the same Homer cals the king 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a gentle meeke and benigne father and the Senators among the Romanes were called patres conscripti neither was there in the common wealth any greater or more ancient honour then to bee called pater patria a father of the country Whence Zenophon saith that a good Gouernour differeth nothing from a good father 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 l. 8. wherefore Princes owe to their subiectes the loue and naturall affection of a father and as the sheepheard excels the sheepe so magistrates ought in goodnesse to excell the people else they are not worthy to rule ouer them in other writers they are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 guids which word also the Scripture vseth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 leaders because they must in vertue goe before others 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 adorners or orderers because they prescribe order to the multitude then which nothing is more beautifull 3. Episcopi watchmen and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 obseruers because they must diligently looke what each citizen doth they are called also in generall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 keepers and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 helpers and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sauiours with which title they are also stiled in the old Testament and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gouernours which word is taken from shippes for as a shippe tossed in a tempestuous sea cannot come safe to the hauen without the skill of a pilote so the commonwealth must needes bee ouerthrowne vnlesse it haue a skilfull Gouernor they are called also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 gratious Lords as Christ witnesseth Luk. 22.28 whence Pindarus saith that a milde and a good king is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 gratious to mortall men and a great friende and amongst the Egyptian kings two by name are termed Euergetae bountifull as Ptolomeus Euergêtes And Antiochus Euergêtes What is the office of the Magistrate 1. In generall that hee keepe and obserue both the tables of the Lawe a Sent. 17 17 and so first and principally kisse the sonne and doe him homage with due seruice and true reuerence 2. That hee erect according to the word of God and also defende and maintaine gods true worshippe and prohibit all false worship b Deut. 13 5 6 d 2. K. 23 2 4. and take away and remoue whatsoeuer may seeme to bee any hinderance to true Religion after the example of Ezechias e Dan. 3.29 Iosias and Nebuchadnetzar c 2 K. 18 4 3. Hee must bee helpefull to the Church with his counsell and substance and promote the ministerie of the word Psal 122.9 For the house sake of my God I will procure thy good and Isa 49.23 Thy Kings shall bee nursing fathers and thy Queenes nursing mothers Furthermore in humane matters he must execute iudgement and iustice that is to say hee must punishe the wicked defend and rewarde the good deliuer the afflicted out of the hands of the wicked helpe the orphane giue righteous iudgement to the poore fatherlesse and needie that haue none to helpe them f Gen. 9 6 Psal 82 3.4 72 2.12 he must bee a preseruer of peace But if neede so require he must defend his subiectes with armes and the Dominions that are committed to his trust by warre hee must bridle them that infring the peace defend his prouinces from Rapines and other annoyances and recouer those things that are iniuriously taken away So Alphonsus King of Naples his Symbole was the pellicane pecking bloud out of her breast with her bill to refresh her young ones with this inscription pro lege pro grege for the Lawe and for the Land hee must bee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is to say hee must with a fatherly affection prouide foode for his subiectes as Ioseph did g Gen. 45 48 Lastly hee must gouerne the common wealth and guide his iudgements by lawes honest and agreeable to reason Doth the care of Religion belong to the Magistrates Yea Epist. 50. ad Bonif. for as Augustine saith Herein Kings serue the Lord as they are Kings when they doe those things which they could not doe except they were Kings that is when they publish and set forth Edicts and decrees for true Religion And if the care of Religion doe appertaine to euerie housholder as the father of the familie h Eph. 64 much more then to a Magistrate who is the father of all his subiects But the care of setting vp or restoring of Religion according to the prescript of Gods word and of maintaining the same doth then especially belong to the Magistrate when the Bishops are negligent or aduersaries to the Gospell but the administration of Religion belongeth to the Ministers of the word Wee see what the Scripture requireth of the Magistrate Psal 2.12 Kisse the sonne and serue the Lord in feare and Psalm 24.7 Lift vp your heads O yee gates and bee yee lift vp yee euerlasting doores that is Open your gates O yee Princes that the King of glorie may enter in Hee calleth the Empires themselues and so also Kings Princes and Magistrates Gates because in olde time Iudgemēt was giuen in the gates And therfore when Ioas was installed into his Kingdom he had the book of the Lawe of God giuen into his hands i 2 K 11.21 according to the commaundement Deut. 17.18 And for this cause especially the Magistrate is by the Apostle called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the minister and seruant of God k Rom 13.2 4.6 To this purpose tend the examples of Moses Dauid Iosias Ezekias Theodosius and others And these precepts belong to the whole Church and euery member thereof Mat. 7.15 Take heede of false Prophets or false teachers 1. Cor. 5.13 Take away the euill or wicked person from amongst you Gal. 1.8 If any man teach any other Gospell let him be accursed Further he is to see that all thing be done decently orderly in the

and professe openly that you doe beleeue and imbrace them For 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is to shew is not to expresse any thing by similitude of fact or to represent by stage playing gestures but to declare and shew Neyther ought it to bee restrained to the Priests alone for seeing that whiles we are strangers in the bodie we are absent from the Lord a 2 Cor 5.6.7 we doe by this remember the Lord Iesus which is in the heauens which thing hee himselfe commaundeth vs doe till he commeth to iudgement signifying that the Church shall continue vntill that iudgement he would not haue commaunded it if he had determined to remaine with his corporally For memorie is opposite to bodily presence because remembrance is not of things to come nor of things present but of things past Of what qualitie ought that remembrance to bee Not any bare or idle remembrance of a thing past which nothing appertaineth vnto vs but operatiue and such whereby the faithfull minde in the vse of this Sacrament doth by faith lay hold vpon Christ with all his benefits doth apply to himselfe particularly and so cals to minde the sacrifice past and once performed in the flesh that thereby it feeleth present comfort gladnesse of minde peace of conscience increase of faith and of loue and moreouer doth conceiue most certaine hope of the life and happinesse to come by reason of that sacrifice Finally it is stirred vp to consider of so great loue of Christ and to offer vnto him by faith the sacrifice of prayse and to giue him thanks b Psal 50 23 From which end we doe againe vnderstand that the supper is not ordayned that it may be a reall and expiatorie or appeasing sacrifice for the quicke and the dead but a solemne and publicke thankesgiuing for the incarnation death redemption and all the benefits of Christ Which are the causes for which Christ ordained the memorie of himselfe to be celebrated amongst vs 1 His great loue the propertie whereof is that they which doe loue sincerely and from the heart do desire to liue in their minds and memorie Whereupon wee gather that Christ is neuer vnmindfull of vs. 2 The faithfull prouidence of Christ whereby hee prouided for his beloued that the benefits bestowed might truly profit and enioy their end For as by the forgetfulnesse of the benefactors a benefit receiued is lost so by memorie it is especially kept What is it to shew the death of the Lord Not onely to meditate vpon the historie but also to thinke earnestly 1 Of the iustice and wrath of God against sinne which are seene in this sacrifice 2 Of the great mercie of God towards vs. 3 Of the loue of the sonne towards mankind For so great is the seueritie of Gods iustice and the weight of sinne that there may be no reconciliation made vnlesse the penaltie due to sinne should be paid so great is the greatnesse of his anger that the eternall Father may not be pacified but by the intreatie and death of the sonne His mercie so great that the sonne is giuen for vs. So great is the loue of the sonne towards vs that he deriued this true and great anger vnto himselfe being made a sacrifice for vs doth make vs partakers of his flesh and bloud all which in the vse of the supper we must speak of meditate vpon that we may be truly feared by the acknowledgement of Gods anger we may be truly grieued for our sinnes and againe may be lifted vp with true comfort And finally that wee may celebrate our Lord Iesus Christ with true thankefulnesse heart mouth and life Is Christ to be adored in the bread of the Supper No. 1 Because he is not there present with his bodie 2 Neyther hath hee in his word tyed himselfe to the bread Therefore he is to be adored in the mysteries as saith Ambrose that is in the celebration of the supper in that he is God and in respect that he is God and man together yet so as that we rest not in the supper but that we may lift vp the eyes of faith and our hearts not to a peece of bread but into heauen where he is sitting at the right hand of God a Coll 3.1 whether also in time past the people in the administration of the supper were inuited while they were admonished Habere sursum corda that is to lift vp their hearts Not that they should bee yet taught to seeke downeward for the bodie and bloud of our Lord present in Essence either in the accidents without the subiect or in vnder or with the bread but rather to seek for him in heauen that selfesame flesh long agoe deliuered for vs and that bloud shed for vs to be touched and laid hold vpon with the hand of faith Wherefore euerie one of the Disciples did not rise that falling downe vpon their knees they might take bread and that wine out of his hand And in the little booke of Constitutions ascribed to Clement the people are commaunded to come with a certaine shame fast reuerence without tumult But concerning the shewing or lifting vp of the Sacrament we confesse that it was the custome in the ancient Church that the whole Sacrament couered with a cleane linnen cloath should be set vpon the holy table vntil it should be distributed to the people For then the minister of the Church the linnē being taken away 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as saith Dionysius that is opening the mysteries did set them before the eyes of those which were present In the Lyturgy also of Chrysostome he saith that the Priest was woont to lift the holy bread a little while from the table not aboue his head to say with a loud voyce Sancta sanctis that is holy things for holy men surely in imitation of the Iewish custome among whom the Priest being about the sacrifices did shew before hand the oblation before his breast and did lift it vp a Exod. 29 24.27 Leuit. 10.15 But not in any other respect then that the people should prepare themselues to the communion But now seeing that the eleuation of the bread aboue the Priests head is the sinew of Bread-worship and prescribed neyther by Christ nor of the Apostles nor obserued in the most ancient and purest Church it is rightly taken away in Euangelicall Churches Is that which is left of the Supper to be laid vp to be caried about to be seene or to be adored as though some holines did remaine inherent in it Much lesse for the Sacraments out of the holy and lawfull vse or out of the taking of them prescribed in these words Take eate take drinke are not Sacraments like as neyther water is the water of baptisme vnlesse some body be dipped in it as is meet but when any bodie hath beene dipped or sprinckled with water the name of the Father of the Sonne and of the holy Ghost being called