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The appellation of John Knox from the cruel and most iniust sentence pronounced against…The appellation of Iohn Knoxe from the cruell and most iniust sentence pronounced against…
The appellation of John Knox from the cruel and most iniust sentence pronounced against him by the false bishops and clergy of Scotland, with his supplication and exhortation to the nobility, estates, and co[m]munaltie of the same realm.The appellation of Iohn Knoxe from the cruell and most iniust sentence pronounced against him by the false bishoppes and clergie of Scotland, with his supplication and exhortation to the nobilitie, estates, and co[m]munaltie of the same realme.
Geneva: printed by J. Poullain and A. Rebul?, 1558
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.
AN ADMONITION TO ENGLAND AND Scotland to call them to repentance, written by Antoni Gilby.
Where as many have written many profitable admonitions to you twain, (O England and Scotland, both making one Island most happy, if you could know your own happiness) some against the regiment of women, wherewith ye are both plagued, some against unlawful obedience, and the admitting of strangers to be your kings, some declaring the vile nature of the Spaniards, whom thou, o England, to thy destruction maintainest, some the pride of the Frenchmen, whom thou, o Scotland, to thy ruin receivest: and many hundreds with pen, with tongue, with word, with writing, with jeopardy and loss of lands, goods, and lives, have admonished you both twain of that cankered poison of papistry, that ye foster and pamper to your own perdition, and utter destruction of souls and bodies, of your selves and yours for now and ever. I thought it my duty (seeing your destruction to mans judgement ⟨p. 60⟩to draw so near) how much or little so ever they have prevailed, yet once again to admonish you both, to give testimony to that trueth, which my brethren have written, and specially to stir your hearts to repentance, or at the least to offer my self a witness against you: for the justice of God and his righteous judgements, which doubtless (if your hearts be hardened) against you both are at hand to be uttered. Thus by our writings, whom it pleaseth God to stir up of your nations, all men, that now live, and that shall come after us, shall have cause also to praise the mercy of God, that so oft admonisheth before he do strike, and to consider his just punishment, when he shall pour forth his vengeance. Give ear therefore betimes, O Britain (for of that name both rejoiceth) whiles the Lord calleth, exhorteth, and admonisheth, that is the acceptable time, when he will be found. If ye refuse the time offered, ye can not have it afterward though with tears (as did Esau) ye do seem to seek it. Yet once again in God's behalf I do offer you the very means, which if God of his mercies grant you grace to follow, I doubt nothing but that of all your enemies speedily ye shall be delivered. Ye rejoice at this word, I am sure, if ye have any hope of the performance.