A47584:1184

The History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland

Name: The History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland
Author: John Knox

The history of the reformation of the Church of Scotland containing five books : together with some treatises conducing to the history.The historie of the reformation of the Church of Scotland containing five books : together with some treatises conducing to the history.

John Knox ca. 1514–1572London: printed by John Raworth for George Thomason and Octavian Pullen, 1644

[84], 460, 122 p. · 350k words · Wing K738 · ESTC R12446

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THE APPELLATION OF JOHN KNOX, From the cruel and most unjust Sent…: THE APPELLATION OF JOHN KNOX, From the cruel and most unjust Sentence pronounced again…THE APPELLATION OF IOHN KNOX, From the cruell and most unjust Sente…: THE APPELLATION OF IOHN KNOX, From the cruell and most unjust Sentence pronounced again…

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THE APPELLATION OF JOHN KNOX, From the cruel and most unjust Sentence pronounced against him, by the false Bishops and Clergy of Scotland: With his Supplication and Exhortation to the Nobility, States, and Commonalty of the same Realm.

THE APPELLATION OF IOHN KNOX, From the cruell and most unjust Sentence pronounced against him, by the false Bishops and Clergie of Scotland: With his Supplication and Exhortation to the Nobility, States, and Communalty of the same Realme.

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To the Nobility and States of SCOTLAND: JOHN KNOX wisheth Grace, Mercy and Peace, from God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, with the Spirit of righteous Judgement.

To the Nobility and States of SCOTLAND: JOHN KNOX wisheth Grace, Mercy and Peace, from God the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ, with the Spirit of righteous Iudgement.

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IT is not only the love of this Temporal life (Right Honourable) neither yet the fear of Corporal death, that moveth me at this present to expose unto you the injuries done against me; and to crave of you, as of lawful Powers by God appointed, redress of the same; But partly it proceedeth from that reverence which every man oweth to Gods Eternal Truth: And partly, from a love which I bear to your Salvation, and to the Salvation of my Brethren abused in that Realm, by such as have no fear of God before their eyes. It hath pleased God of his infinite mercy, not only to illuminate the eyes of my mind, and so to touch my dull heart, that clearly I see, and by his grace unfeignedly believe, That there is no other name given to men under the heaven in which Salvation consisteth,

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The book

Title as printed

Author

John Knox ca. 1514–1572

Place

London

Printer

John Raworth

Bookseller

George Thomason and Octavian Pullen

Year

1644

Size

[84], 460, 122 p.

Words

350,363

Catalogue

Wing K738 · ESTC R12446

Text

EEBO-TCP A47584

Passages

1,585

Sections

Title page

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

THE APPELLATION OF JOHN KNOX, From the cruel and most unjust Sentence pronounced against him, by the false Bishops and Clergy of Scotland: With his Supplication and Exhortation to the Nobility, States, and Commonalty of the same Realm.

THE APPELLATION OF IOHN KNOX, From the cruell and most unjust Sentence pronounced against him, by the false Bishops and Clergie of Scotland: With his Supplication and Exhortation to the Nobility, States, and Communalty of the same Realme.