A47584:1191
The History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland
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.
London: printed by John Raworth for George Thomason and Octavian Pullen, 1644
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.
This Doctrine I did believe to be so conformable to Gods holy Scriptures, that I thought no creature could have been so impudent, as to have condemned any Point or Article of the same: Yet nevertheless me, as an heretic, and this Doctrine, as heretical, have your false Bishops and ungodly Clergy condemned,1 pronouncing against me a Sentence of death; in testification whereof, they have burned a Picture. From which false and cruel Sentence, and from all judgement of that wicked Generation, I make it known unto your Honours,2 That I appeal to a Lawful and General Council, to such, I mean, as the most ancient Laws and Cannons do approve, to be holden by such, as whose manifest impiety is not to be reformed in the same:3 Most humbly requiring of your Honours, That as God hath appointed you Princes in that People, and by reason thereof, requireth of your hands the defence of Innocents troubled in your Dominion, in the mean time, and till the controversies that this day be in Religion, be lawfully decided, ye receive me, and such others as most unjustly by those cruel Beasts are persecuted, in your defence and Protection.
This Doctrine I did believe to be so conformable to Gods holy Scriptures, that I thought no creature could have been so impudent, as to have condemned any Point or Article of the same: Yet neverthelesse me, as an heretick, and this Doctrine, as hereticall, have your false Bishops and ungodly Clergie condemned,1 pronouncing against me a Sentence of death; in testification whereof, they have burned a Picture. From which false and cruell Sentence, and from all judgement of that wicked Generation, I make it known unto your Honours,2 That I appeal to a Lawfull and Generall Councell, to such, I mean, as the most ancient Laws and Cannons do approve, to be holden by such, as whose manifest impiety is not to be reformed in the same:3 Most humbly requiring of your Honours, That as God hath appointed you Princes in that People, and by reason thereof, requireth of your hands the defence of Innocents troubled in your Dominion, in the mean time, and till the controversies that this day be in Religion, be lawfully decided, ye receive me, and such others as most unjustly by those cruell Beasts are persecuted, in your defence and Protection.