A47584:1318
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.
and that all that trouble was devised by the Devil and his Instruments, to stop and let Christs Disciples and their poor Boat; but that was not able, because she was not yet come to the midst of the Sea.
and that all that trouble was devised by the Devill and his Instruments, to stop and let Christs Disciples and their poor Boat; but that was not able, because she was not yet come to the midst of the Sea.
Transubstantiation (the Bird that the Devil hatched by Pope Nicholas and since that time fostered and nourished by all his Children, Priests, Friars, Monks, and other his conjured and sworn soldiers, and in these last days chiefly by Stephen Gardner, and his black brood in England;) Transubstantiation (I say) was then clearly confuted and mightily overthrown; and therefore God had put wisdom in the tongues of his Ministers and Messengers to utter that vain vanity;1 and specially gave such strength to that Reverend Father in God, Thomas Granmer, to cut the knots of Devilish ⟨p. 52⟩Sophistry linked and knit by the Devils Gardener, and his blind Buzzards, to hold the verity of the everliving God under bondage, that rather I think they shall condemn his works (which notwithstanding shall continue and remain to their confusion, then they shall enterprise to answer the same.2 And also God gave boldness and knowledge to the Court of Parliament to take away the round clipped God, wherein standeth all the holiness of Papists, and to command common Bread to be used at the Lords Table, and also to take away the most part of superstitions, (kneeling at the Lords Supper excepted) which before profaned Christs true Religion.3 Then (dear Brethren) was the Boat in the midst of the Sea, and suddenly ariseth the horrible tempest, most fearful and dolorous; Our King is taken away from us, and the Devil bloweth in such Organs as alway he had found obedient to his Precepts, and by them he inflameth the heart of that wretched and unhappy man, (whom I judge more to be lamented, then hated) to covet the Imperial Crown of England to be established to his Posterity, and what thereupon hath succeeded, it is not now necessary to be written.