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The copy of a letter, sent to the lady Mary dowager, Regent of Scotland,…The copie of a letter, sent to the ladye Mary dowagire, Regent of Scotland,…
The copy of a letter, sent to the lady Mary dowager, Regent of Scotland, by John Knox in the year. 1556. Here is also a notable sermon, made by the said John Knox, wherein is evidently proved that the mass is and always hath ben abominable before God and idolatryThe copie of a letter, sent to the ladye Mary dowagire, Regent of Scotland, by Iohn Knox in the yeare. 1556. Here is also a notable sermon, made by the sayde Iohn Knox, wherin is euydentlye proued that the masse is and alwayes hath ben abhominable before God and idolatrye
printed by H. Singleton?, 1556
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If your grace, I say, shall earnestly ⟨image 11⟩meditate these things afore said: Then albeit suddenly ye may not do all things y• ye would, yet shall ye not cease to do what ye may. Your grace can not hastily abolish all superstition, neither yet remove from offices unprofitable pastors, which only feed them selves: the which to public reformation, are requisite and necessary. But yet, if the zeal of God's glory be fervent in your graces hart▪ by wicked laws ye will not maintain manifest Idolatry, neither yet will ye suffer y• fury of bishops, to murder & devour the poor members of Christs body. But withal cares full diligence, ye will study how that the true worshipping of God may be promoted, and the tyranny of ungodly men repressed within the bounds of your dominion, to the uttermost of your ⟨image 12⟩power.
If youre grace, I say, shall earnestly ⟨image 11⟩meditate these thigs afore sayde: Then albeit sodenlye ye may not do all thinges y• ye wold, yet shall ye not cease to do what ye maye. Your grace can not hasetely abolishe all superstition, neither yet remoue from offices vnprofitable pastors, whiche onely fede them selfs: the which to publique reformation, are requisite and necessary. But yet, if the zele of goddes glory be feruēt in your graces hart▪ by wicked lawes ye will not mainteyn manifest Idolatrye, neither yet will ye suffer y• fury of bisshoppes, to murther & deuoure the poore membres of Christes body. But withall cares full diligence, ye will study how that the trewe worshippinge of God maye be promoted, and the tyranny of vngodly men repressed within the boundes of youre dominiō, to the vttermost of your ⟨image 12⟩power.