A47584:1291
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.
albeit peradventure neither of me so plainly uttered, neither of you so plainly perceived, as these most dolorous days declare the same to us.
albeit peradventure neither of me so plainly uttered, neither of you so plainly perceived, as these most dolorous dayes declare the same to us.
It shall not be necessary to handle the Text word by word, but of the whole sum to gather certain Notes and Observations, (which shall not far disagree from the state of these days) it shall be sufficient. And first it is to be observed,1 That after this great miracle that Christ had wrought,2 he neither would retain with himself the multitude of people whom he had fed, neither yet his disciples; but the one he sent away every man to return to his place of accustomed residence, and the others he sent to the danger of the Seas, not as he that was ignorant what should chance unto them, but knowing and foreseeing the Tempest, yea and appointing the same so to trouble them.
It shall not bee necessary to handle the Text word by word, but of the whole summe to gather certain Notes and Observations, (which shall not farre disagree from the state of these dayes) it shall be sufficient. And first it is to be observed,1 That after this great miracle that Christ had wrought,2 he neither would retain with himself the multitude of people whom he had fed, neither yet his disciples; but the one he sent away every man to return to his place of accustomed residence, and the others he sent to the danger of the Seas, not as he that was ignorant what should chance unto them, but knowing and foreseeing the Tempest, yea and appointing the same so to trouble them.