A47584:1240
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.
Consider, my Lords, that ye are powers ordained of God (as before is declared) and therefore doth the Reformation of Religion, and the defence of such as unjustly are oppressed, appertain to your charge and care; which thing shall the Law of God (universally given to be kept of all men) most evidently declare; which is my last and most assured reason, why (I say) ye ought to remove from your Honours, and to punish with death such as God hath condemned by his own mouth.
Consider, my Lords, that ye are powers ordained of God (as before is declared) and therefore doth the Reformation of Religion, and the defence of such as unjustly are oppressed, appertaine to your charge and care; which thing shall the Law of God (universally given to be kept of all men) most evidently declare; which is my last and most assured reason, why (I say) ye ought to remove from your Honours, and to punish with death such as God hath condemned by his own mouth.
1After that Moses had declared what was true Religion, to wit, To honour God as he commanded, adding nothing to his Word, neither yet diminishing any thing from it; and after also that vehemently he had exhort-the same Law to be observed, he denounced the punishment against the Transgressors,2 in these words, If thy brother, son, daughter, wife or neighbour, whom thou lovest as thine own life, solicit thee secretly, saying, Let us go serve other gods, whom neither thou, nor thy fathers have known, consent not to him, hear him not, let not thine eye spare him, show him no indulgency or favour, hide him not, but utterly kill him, let thy hand be the first upon him, that he may be slain, and after the hand of the whole people. Of these words of Moses are two things appertaining to our purpose, to be noted; The first is,3 that such as solicit only to Idolatry, ought to be punished to death, without favour or respect of person; For he that will not suffer man to spare his son, his daughter, nor his wife, but straitly commandeth punishment to be taken upon the idolaters (have they never so nigh