A04917:35
A godly letter sent too the faithful in London, Newcastle, Berwick, and to all…A godly letter sent too the fayethfull in London, Newcastell, Barwyke, and to all…
A godly letter sent too the faithful in London, Newcastle, Berwick, and to all other within the realm off England, that love the co[m]minge of our Lord Jesus by John KnoxA godly letter sent too the fayethfull in London, Newcastell, Barwyke, and to all other within the realme off Englande, that loue the co[m]minge of oure Lorde Iesus by Ihon Knox
Rome: printed by J. Lambrecht? for H. Singleton, 1554
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
And as the saints of God were inspired with the holy ghost / who would not so much as ones favourably speak of Idols / 1& last as the scriptures be infallible / which promiseth that God may not abide / that our bodies serve the devil / in joining our bodies with Idolatry / so is it off more necessity / that both in body & soul / we abstain from the same / if we will have the league between God & us to stand sure. I will not trouble this time with answering to any such objections / as men seeking to live as they list / doth now a days invent / seeing that partly in another letter: I have answered the same / & if God shall grant any rest in this wicked world / I purpose by the grace of God / as occasion shall be offered fully to answer what can be said for their defence / which in very deed / when all is said that they can / they have said nothing that God will admit.2
And as the saintes of God were inspired with the holye ghoste / who wolde not so much as ones fauourablye speake of Idols / 1& laste as the scriptures be infallable / which promiseth that God maye not abyde / that our bodies serue the deuill / in ioyning our bodies with Idolatrie / so is it off more necessitie / that both in bodye & soule / we abstaine frō thesame / yf we wil haue the leage betwene God & vs to stande sure. I will not troble this tyme with aūswering to any such obiections / as men sekinge to leue as they liste / dothe now a daies inuent / seing that partely in another letter: I haue aūswered thesame / & yf God shal graūt any rest in this wicked world / I purpose by the grace of God / as occasiō shal be offered fully to aunswere what can be sayd for their defence / whiche in very dede / when all is sayde that they can / they haue sayde nothing that God will admit.2
- 1Mark.Marke.
- 2By frequentin of Idolalatrie, men show them self to have no faith.