A47584:1229
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.
1The same is to be read of Josiah, who did not only restore the Religion, ⟨p. 15⟩but did further destroy all Monuments of Idolatry which of long time had remained: For it is written of him, That after that the Book of the Law was found, and that he asked counsel at the Prophetess Hulda, he sent and gathered all the Elders of Judah and Jerusalem, 2and standing in the Temple of the Lord, he made a Covenant, That all the people, from the great to the small, should walk after the Lord, should observe his Law, Statutes, and Testimonies, with all their heart, and with all their soul; and that they should ratify and confirm whatsoever was written in the Book of God. He further commanded Hilkias the high Priest,3 and the Priests of the inferior Order, That they should carry forth of the Temple of the Lord all the vessels that were made to Baal, which he burnt, and did carry their powder to Bethel. He did further destroy all Monuments of Idolatry, yea, even those that had remained from the days of Solomon; he did burn them, stamp them to Powder, whereof one part he scattered in the brook Kidron, and the other part upon the Sepulchres and Graves of the Idolaters, whose bones he did burn upon the Altars where before they made Sacrifice not only in Judah, but also in Bethel, where Jeroboam had erected his Idolatry: yea, he further proceeded, and did kill the Priests of the high places, who were Idolaters, and had deceived the people; he did kill them, I say, and burnt their bones upon their own Altars, and so returned to Jerusalem. This Reformation made Josiah, and for the same obtained this Testimony of the holy Ghost, That neither before him nor after him was there any such King, who returned to God with his whole soul, and with all his strength, according to all the Law of Moses.
1The same is to be read of Iosias, who did not onely restore the Religion, ⟨p. 15⟩but did further destroy all Monuments of Idolatry which of long time had remained: For it is written of him, That after that the Book of the Law was found, and that he asked counsell at the Prophetesse Hulda, he sent and gathered all the Elders of Iuda and Ierusalem,