A47584:1283
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.
the idolatry and abomination which openly they commit, and without punishment maintain, doth corrupt and defile the whole Land, and none amongst you do unfeignedly study for any redress of such enormities. Will God in this behalf hold you as innocents? Be not deceived, dear brethren; God hath punished not only the proud tyrants, filthy persons, and cruel murderers, but also such as with them did draw the yoke of iniquity, was it by flattering their offences,1 obeying their unjust commandments, or in winking at their manifest iniquity. All such, I say, God once punished with the chief offenders. Be ye assured, brethren, that as he is immutable of nature, so will he not pardon you in that which he hath punished in others; and now the less, because he hath plainly admonished you of the dangers to come, and hath offered you his mercy before he pour forth his wrath and displeasure upon the inobedient.
the idolatry and abomination which openly they commit, and without punishment maintain, doth corrupt and defile the whole Land, and none amongst you do unfainedly study for any redresse of such enormities. Will God in this behalf hold you as innocents? Be not deceived, dear brethren; God hath punished not onely the proud tyrants, filthy persons, and cruell murtherers, but also such as with them did draw the yoke of iniquity, was it by flattering their offences,1 obeying their unjust commandments, or in winking at their manifest iniquity. All such, I say, God once punished with the chief offenders. Be ye assured, brethren, that as he is immutable of nature, so will he not pardon you in that which he hath punished in others; and now the lesse, because he hath plainly admonished you of the dangers to come, and hath offered you his mercy before he pour forth his wrath and displeasure upon the inobedient.
- 1What subjects shall God punish with their Princes.