A47584:1279
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.
Not only I,1 but with me also divers other godly and learned men, do offer unto you our labours, faithfully to instruct you in the ways of the eternal our God, and in the sincerity of Christs Evangel, which this day, by the pestilent Generation of Antichrist (I mean by the Pope, and by his most ungodly Clergy) are almost hid from the eyes of men: We offer to jeopard our lives for the salvation of your souls, and by manifest Scriptures to prove that Religion that amongst you is maintained by fire ⟨p. 40⟩and sword, to be false, vain and diabolical. We require nothing of you, but that patiently ye will hear our Doctrine, which is not ours, but the Doctrine of salvation revealed to the world by the only Son of God; And that ye will examine our reasons,2 by the which we offer to prove the Papistical Religion to be abominable before God: And last, we require, That by your power the tyranny of those cruel beasts (I mean of Priests and Fryers) may be bridled till we have uttered our minds in all matters this day debatable in Religion: If these things in the fear of God ye grant to me, and unto others that unfeignedly for your salvation, and for Gods glory require the same, I am assured, That of God ye shall be blessed, whatsoever Satan shall devise against you. But and if ye contemn or refuse God, who thus lovingly offereth unto you salvation and life, ye shall neither escape plagues Temporal which shortly shall apprehend you, neither yet the torment prepared for the devil and for his angels, except by your speedy repentance ye return to the Lord, whom now ye refuse, if that ye refuse the Messengers of his Word.
Not onely I,1 but with me also divers other godly and learned men, do offer unto you our labours, faithfully to instruct you in the wayes of the eternall our God, and in the sincerity of Christs Evangell, which this day, by the pestilent Generation of Antichrist (I mean by the Pope, and by his most ungodly Clergy) are almost hid from the eyes of men: We offer to jeopard our lives for the salvation of your souls, and by manifest Scriptures to prove that Religion that amongst you is maintained by fire ⟨p. 40⟩