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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.
For if your Bishops be proved to be no Bishops, but deceivable thieves and ⟨image 18⟩ravening wolves (which I offer my self to prove by Gods word,1 by law, and councils, yea by the judgement of all the godly learned from the primitive Church to this day) then shall your permission and defence of them be reputed before God a participation with their theft and murder. For thus accused the Prophet Isaiah the Princes of Jerusalem.
For if your Byshoppes be proued to be no Byshoppes, but deceauable theues and ⟨image 18⟩rauenyng wolues (which I offer my selfe to proue by Gods word,1 by law, and coū cils, yea by the iudgement of all the godly learned frō the primatiue Church to this day) then shall your permission and defence of them be reputed before God a participation with theyr thefte and murther. For thus accused the Prophete Esaie the Princes of Ierusalem.
- 1The offer of John knoxe and his accusation intended against the papistical Bishops.The offer of Iohn knoxe and his accusation intended against the papisticall Bysshoppes.