A47584:1363
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.
To pass over the Tyrants of old time, whom God hath plagued, let us come to the Tyrants which now are within the Realm of England, whom God will not long spare; If Steven Gardener, 1Cuthbert Tunstal, and Butcherly Bonner, false Bishops of Winchester, Duresme, and of London, had for their false Doctrine and Traitorous acts suffered death, when they justly deserved the same, then would arrant Papists have alleged (as I and others have heard them do) that they were men reformable, That they were meet Instruments for a Common-wealth;2 That they were not so obstinate and malicious as they were judged, neither that they thirsted for the blood of any man: And of Lady Mary, who hath not heard, That she was not sober, merciful, and one that loved the Common-wealth of England? Had she (I say) and such as now be of her pestilent Council, been dead before these days, then should not their iniquity and cruelty so manifestly have appeared to the world; for who could have thought, that such cruelty could have entered into the heart of a woman? and into the ⟨p. 60⟩heart of her that is called a Virgin, that she would thirst for the blood of innocents, and of such as (by just Laws and faithful witnesses) can never be proved to have offended by themselves.
To passe over the Tyrants of old time, whom God hath plagued, let us come to the Tyrants which now are within the Realm of England, whom God will not long spare; If Steven Gardener, 1Cuthbert Tunstal, and Butcherly Bonnar, false Bishops of Winchester, Duresme, and of London, had for their false Doctrine and Traiterous acts suffered death, when they justly deserved the same, then would arrant Papists have alleadged (as I and others have heard them do) that they were men reformable, That they were meet Instruments for a Common-wealth;2 That they were not so obstinate and malicious as they were judged, neither that they thirsted for the blood of any man: And of Lady Mary, who hath not heard, That she was not sober, mercifull, and one that loved the Common-wealth of England? Had she (I say) and such as now be of her pestilent Councell, been dead before these dayes, then should not their iniquity and cruelty so manifestly have appeared to the world; for who could have thought, that such cruelty could have entred into the heart of a woman? and into the