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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.
If in any of thy cities,1 sayeth he, which the Lord thy God giveth unto the to dwell in them, thou shalt hear this brute, There are son me men the sons of Belial passed forth from thee, and have solicited the citizens of their cities by these words, Let us go and serve strange gods, which you have not known, search and inquire diligently, and if it be true, that such abomination is done in the ⟨p. 31⟩middest of thee, thou shalt utterly strike the inhabitants of that city with the sword, thou shalt destroy it and whatsoever is within it, thou shalt gather the spoil of it in the middest of the marketplace, thou shalt burn that city with fire, and the spoil of it to the Lord thy God, that it may be a heap of stones for ever, neither shall it be any more builded. Let nothing of that execration cleave to thy hand, that the Lord may turn from the fury of his wrath, and be moved to werdes thee with inward affection.
Yf in anie of thy cities,1 saieth he, which the Lord thy God geueth vnto the to dwell in them, thou shalt hear this brute, There are sō me men the sonnes of Belial passed furthe from thee, ād haue solicited the citizens of theyr cities by these wordes, Let vs go ād serue strange goddes, which you haue not knowen, search and inquire diligently, and if it be true, that such abomination is done in the ⟨p. 31⟩middest of thee, thou shalt vtterly stryke the inhabitants of that citie with the sworde, thou shalt destroy it and whatsoeuer is within it, thou shalt gather the spoile of it in the middest of the marketplace, thou shalt burne that citie with fier, and the spoile of it to the Lord thy God, that it may be a heap of stones for euer, neither shall it be any more buylded. Let nothing of that execration cleaue to thy hand, that the Lord may turne from the furie of his wrath, ād be moued to werdes thee with inward affection.
- 1Deut. 13.