A47584:1293
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.
1It is not to be judged, That the only and true Pastor would remove and send away from him the wandering and weak sheep; neither yet that the only provident Governor and Guide would set out his rude Warriors to so great a jeopardy, without sufficient and most just cause.
1It is not to be judged, That the onely and true Pastour would remove and send away from him the wandering and weak sheep; neither yet that the onely provident Governour and Guide would set out his rude Warriours to so great a jeopardie, without sufficient and most just cause.
- 1Christ suffereth not his sheep and Pastors to be dispersed and troubled, but for cause reasonable.Christ suffereth not his sheep and Pastours to be dispersed and troubled, but for cause reasonable.
Why Christ removed and sent away from him the people, the Evangelist Saint John declareth, saying, When Jesus knew that they were come to take him, 1that they might make him King, he passed secretly (or alone) to the Mountain. Whereof it is plain what chiefly moved Christ to send away the people from him,2 because that by him they sought a carnal and worldly liberty, regarding nothing his Heavenly Doctrine of the Kingdom of God his Father, which before he had taught and declared unto them plainly,3 showing them, That such as would follow him must suffer for his Names sake persecution, must be hated of all men, must deny themselves, must be sent forth as sheep among Wolves: But no part ⟨p. 45⟩