The History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland

When I feel any taste or motion of these promises, then think I my self most happy, and that I have received a just compensation, albeit I, and all that to me in earth belongeth, should suffer present death, knowing that God shall yet show mercy to his afflicted Church within England, and that he shall repress the pride of these present tyrants, like as he hath done of those that were before our days.

When I feel any taste or motion of these promises, then think I my self most happy, and that I have received a just compensation, albeit I, and all that to me in earth belongeth, should suffer present death, knowing that God shall yet shew mercy to his afflicted Church within England, and that he shall represse the pride of these present tyrants, like as he hath done of those that were before our dayes.

And therefore,¹ beloved brethren in our Saviour Jesus Christ, hold up to God your hands that are fainted through fear, and let your hearts that have in these dolorous days slept in sorrow, awake, and hear the voice of your God, who sweareth by himself, That he will not suffer his Church to be oppressed for ever;² neither that he will despise our sob• to the end,³ if we will row and strive against this vehement wind; I mean, if that ye will not run back headlong to Idolatry, then shall this storm be assuaged in despite of the devil; Christ Jesus shall come with speed to your deliverance, he shall pierce through the wind, and ⟨p. 56⟩the raging Seas shall obey, and bear his feet and body, as the massive, stable and dry land. Be not moved from the sure foundation of your faith: For albeit that Christ Jesus be absent from you (as he was from his disciples in that great storm) by his bodily presence, yet is he present by his mighty power and grace: