The History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland

This Proclamation was made in Lowthian the third pay of the said month. Upon Sunday the nineteenth of August, the King came to the high Kirk of Edinburgh, where John Knox made the Sermon; his Text was taken out of the six and twentieth Chapter of Esayas his Prophecy, about the thirteenth Verse, where in the words of the Prophet, he said, O Lord our God, ¹other Lords then thou have ruled over us. Whereupon he took occasion to speak of the government of wicked Princes, who for the sins of the people are sent as Tyrants and scourges to plague them: And amongst other things he said, That God sets in that room (for the offences and ingratitude of the people) Boys and women. And so other words which appeared bitter in the Kings ears, as, That God justly punished Ahab and his Posterity, because he would not take order with that Harlot Jezebel. And because he had tarried an hour and more, longer then the time appointed, the King (sitting in a Throne made for that purpose) was so moved at this Sermon, that he would not Dine; and being troubled, with great fury he past in the afternoon to the Hawking.

This Proclamation was made in Lowthian the third pay of the said moneth. Upon Sunday the ninteenth of August, the King came to the high Kirke of Edinburgh, where Iohn Knox made the Sermon; his Text was taken out of the six and twentieth Chapter of Esayas his Prophesie, about the thirteenth Verse, where in the words of the Prophet, he said, O Lord our God, ¹other Lords then thou have ruled over us. Whereupon he tooke occasion to speake of the government of wicked Princes, who for the sinnes of the people are sent as Tyrants and scourges to plague them: And amongst other things he said, That God sets in that room (for the offences and ingratitude of the people) Boyes and women. And so other words which appeared bitter in the Kings ears, as, That God justly punished Ahab and his Posterity, because he would not take order with that Harlot Iezabel. And because he had tarried an hour and more, longer then the time appointed, the King (sitting in a Throne made for that purpose) was so moved at this Sermon, that he would not Dine; and being troubled, with great fury he past in the afternoon to the Hawking.

1. 1The King, to make himself more popular, and to take from the Lords of the Congregation the pretext of Religion, he went to the Kirk to hear John Knox preach.