A47584:1214
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.
And thus much for the right of my Appellation, which in the bowels of Christ Jesus I require your Honours not to esteem as a thing superfluous and vain, but that ye admit it, and also accept me in your protection and defence, that by you assured, I may have access to my native Country, which I never offended; to the end that freely and openly, in the presence of the whole Realm, I may give my confession of all such Points as this day be in controversy; And also that you, by your authority which ye have of God, compel such as of long time have blinded and deceived both your selves and the people, to answer to such things as shall be laid to their charge.
And thus much for the right of my Appellation, which in the bowells of Christ Jesus I require your Honours not to esteem as a thing superfluous and vain, but that ye admit it, and also accept me in your protection and defence, that by you assured, I may have accesse to my native Countrey, which I never offended; to the end that freely and openly, in the presence of the whole Realm, I may give my confession of all such Points as this day be in controversie; And also that you, by your authority which ye have of God, compell such as of long time have blinded and deceived both your selves and the people, to answer to such things as shall be laid to their charge.
But lest that some doubt remain,1 That I require more of you, then you of conscience are bound to grant; in few words▪ I hope my Petition to be such, as without Gods heavy displeasure ye cannot deny. My Petition is, That ye, whom God hath appointed Heads in your Commonwealth, with single eye do study to promote the glory of God, To provide that your subjects be rightly instructed in his true Religion, That they be defended from all oppression and tyranny, That true Preachers may be maintained, and such as blind and deceive the people, together also with all idle bellies, which do rob and oppress the Flock, may be removed and punished, as Gods Law prescribeth. And to the performance of every one of these, do your Offices and Names, the Honours and