A47584:1345
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 the third was, The danger and the tempest, in which they so earnestly laboured for the safeguard of their selves.
The darkness (I say) of the night letted their eyes to see him: And it was above nature, that a massive, heavy, and weighty body of a man (such as they understood their Master Christ to have) should walk, go upon, or be born up of the water of the raging Sea, and not sink. And finally, the horror of the tempest, and great danger that they were in, persuaded them to look for none other, but certainly to be drowned.
The darknesse (I say) of the night letted their eyes to see him: And it was above nature, that a massie, heavy, and weighty body of a man (such as they understood their Master Christ to have) should walk, go upon, or be born up of the water of the raging Sea, and not sink. And finally, the horrour of the tempest, and great danger that they were in, perswaded them to look for none other, but certainly to be drowned.
And so all these three things concurring together, confirmed in them this imagination, That Christ Jesus, who came to their great comfort and deliverance, was a fearful and wicked spirit appearing to their destruction.
And so all these three things concurring together, confirmed in them this imagination, That Christ Iesus, who came to their great comfort and deliverance, was a fearfull and wicked spirit appearing to their destruction.