A47584:1284
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.
God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the father of glory, and God of all consolation, give you the spirit of wisdom, and open unto you the knowledge of himself, by the means of his dear Son, by the which ye may attain to the esperance and hope, That after the troubles of this transitory life, ye may be partakers of the glorious Inheritance which is prepared for such as refuse themselves, and fight under the Banner of Christ Jesus in the day of this his Battle: That in deep consideration of the same, ye may learn to prefer the invisible and eternal joys, to the vain pleasures that are present. God further grant you his holy Spirit, righteously to consider what I, in his Name, have required of your Nobility, and of the subjects, and move all together so to answer, that my Petition be not a testimony of your just condemnation, when the Lord Jesus shall appear to revenge the blood of his Saints, and the contempt of his most holy Word. Amen.
God the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ, who is the father of glory, and God of all consolation, give you the spirit of wisedom, and open unto you the knowledge of himself, by the means of his dear Son, by the which ye may attain to the esperance and hope, That after the troubles of this transitory life, ye may be partakers of the glorious Inheritance which is prepared for such as refuse themselves, and fight under the Banner of Christ Iesus in the day of this his Battell: That in deep consideration of the same, ye may learn to prefer the invisible and eternall joyes, to the vain pleasures that are present. God further grant you his holy Spirit, righteously to consider what I, in his Name, have required of your Nobility, and of the subjects, and move all together so to answer, that my Petition be not a testimony of your just condemnation, when the Lord Iesus shall appear to revenge the blood of his Saints, and the contempt of his most holy Word. Amen.
Sleep not in sin; for vengeance is prepared against the inobedient. Fly from Babylon, if ye will not be partakers of her plagues.