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A faithful admonition madeA faythfull admonition made
A faithful admonition made by John Knox, unto the professors of Gods truth in England whereby thou mayest learn how God will have his Church exercised with troubles, and how he defendeth it in the same.A faythfull admonition made by Iohn̄ Knox, vnto the professours of Gods truthe in England whereby thou mayest learne howe God wyll haue his Churche exercised with troubles, and how he defendeth it in the same.
printed by Egidius van der Erve, 1554
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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 Ministers who were the distributors of this bread (the true word of God) wherewith the multi tude within England was fed, lacked not their offences, which also moved God to send us to the sea.
The Ministers who were the distributours of this bread (the true worde of God) wherwith the multi tude within Englande was fedde, lacked not their offences, which also moued God to sende vs to the sea.
And because the offences of no man are so manifest unto me as are mine own, only of my self I will be thac cusoure.
And because the offences of no man are so manifest vnto me as are myne owne, only of my selfe I wyl be thac cusoure.
It is not unknown unto many, that I (the most wretched) was one of that number, whom God appointed to receive that bread (as it was broken by Christ Jesus) to distribute and give the same to such as he had called to this banquet, in that part of his table where he appointed me to serve. It is not in my knowledge nor ⟨p. 11⟩judgement to define nor determine what portion or quantity every man received of this bread, neither yet how that which they received agreed with their stomachs. But of this I am assured, that the benediction of Christ Jesus so multiplied the portion that I received of his hands, that during that banquet (this I writ to the praise of his name, and to the accusation of mine own unthankfulness) the bread never failed, when the hungry soul craved or cry ed for food, and at the end of the banquet, mine own conscience beareth witness, that my hands gathered up the crumbs that were left in such abundance, that my basket was full among the rest.