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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.
The Lord shall plague you one with an other, until you be consumed, your strength, wherein ye trust, shall be shaken to naught, your courage shall be cowardice, your wisdom shall be folly, and the Lord of hosts by your ruin and destruction will be renowned and praised, and his just judgements through out the earth shall be honoured and feared. Where of the contrary if you will maintain Gods trueth in the earth, he ⟨image 78⟩will receive you as his children into the heavens, if you confess his Christ before this wicked generation, Christ shall confess you before his father in the heavens, in the presence of his angels. But if you persist stubbornly to banish God's word, and his Son Christ in his members forth of your earthly kingdoms, how can ye look for any part in his heavenly king dome? much more if ye continue to murder his messengers, what can ye look for amongst your selves, but that ye should dig one in another's belly to be your own murderers? So that if ye will still remain after all these admonitions in your murders and idolatries, be sure, that in this world ye shall have enough of your idolatries, and you shall be filled with bloody murders and in the end ye shall be judged without the gates of the heavenly Jerusalem amongest the dogs,1 enchanters, whoremongers and murderers and idolaters with all those, that loveth lies. But he, that overcometh all these, shall inherit all things, and I will be his God, sayeth the Lord, and he shall be my son. Where as the fearful in gods ⟨p. 77⟩cause, the unbelieving, the abominable, the murderers, whoremongers, sorcerers and idolaters shall have their part in the lake, that burneth with fire and brimstone.
The Lord shall plage you one with an other, vntill you be consumed, your strēgth, wherein ye trust, shall be shakē to naught, your courrage shalbe cowardise, your wisdom shall be folie, ād the Lord of hostes by your ruine ād destructiō will be renowmed ād praised, ād his iust iudgemēts through owt the earth shalbe honoured ād feared. Where of the contrarie if you will maintaine Gods trueth in the earthe, he ⟨image 78⟩will receaue you as his children into the heauens, if you confesse his Christe before this wicked generation, Christ shall confesse you before his father in the heauens, in the presēce of his angels. But if you persiste stubburnly to banishe goddes worde, and his sonne Christ in his membres furth of your earthlie kyngdomes, how cā ye loke for any parte in his heauēlie king dome? muche more if ye continue to murther his messīgers, what cā ye loke for emōgst your selues, but that ye shoulde digge one ī anothers bellie to be your own murtherers? So that if ye wil stil remaine after all these admonitiōs in your murthers and idolatries, be suer, that in this worlde ye shall haue enoghe of your idolatries, and you shalbe filled with blooddy murthers aud in the end ye shall be iudged without the gates of the heuenlie Ierusalem amongest the dogges,