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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.
TO THE NOBILITY AND ESTAtes of Scotland John Knox wisheth grace, mercy, and peace from God the father of our Lord Jesus Christ with the spirit of righteous judgement.
TO THE NOBILITIE AND ESTAtes of Scotlād Iohn Knoxe wisheth grace, mercie, and peace from God the father of our Lord Iesus Christ with the spirit of righteous iudgement.
IT is not only the love of life temporal (right honourable) neither yet the fear of corporal death, that moveth me at this present to expone unto you the injuries done against me, and to crave of you, as of lawful powers by God appointed, redress of the same, but partly it proceedeth from that reverence which every man oweth to Gods eternal trueth,1 and partly from a love which I bear to your salvation, and to the salvation of my brethren abused in that realm by such, as have no fear of God before their eyes. It hath pleased God of his infinite mercy, not only so to illuminate the eyes of my mind, and so to touch my dull hart, that clearly I see, and by his grace unfeignedly believe, that their is no other name given to men under the heaven,2 in which salvation consisteth, save the name of Jesus alone,
IT is not only the loue of life temporall (right honorable) neither yet the fear of corporall death, that moueth me at this present to expone vnto you the iniuries done against me, and to craue of you, as of laufull powers by God appointed, redresse of the same, but partly it procedeth from that reuerence whiche euerie man oweth to Godds eternal trueth,