A47584:1365
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.
1I find that Jezebel (that cursed Idolatress) caused the blood of the Prophets of God to be shed, and Naboth to be murdered unjustly for his own Vineyard; but yet I think she never erected half so many Gallows in all Israel, as mischievous Mary hath done within London alone: But you Papists will excuse your Mary the Virgin:2 Well, let her be your Virgin, and a Goddess meet to entertain such Idolaters, yet shall I rightly lay to her charge, that which I think no Papist within England will justify nor defend: And therefore (O ye Papists) here I will a little turn my Pen unto you.3 Answer unto this Question, O ye Seed of the Serpent; Would any of you have confessed two years ago, that Mary (your mirror) had been false, dissembling, unconstant, proud, and a breaker of promises (except such promises as she made to your god the Pope, to the great shame and dishonour of her noble Father;) I am sure you would hardly have thought it of her: And now doth she not manifestly show her self to be an open Traitoress to the Imperial Crown of England, contrary to the just Laws of the Realm, to bring in a stranger, and make a proud Spaniard King, to the shame, dishonour and destruction of the Nobility; to the spoil of their Honours, Lands, Possessions, chief Offices and promotions of them and theirs; To the utter decay of the Treasures, Commodities, Navy and Fortifications of the Realm,4 to the abasing of the Yeomanry, to the slavery of the Commonalty, to the overthrow of Christianity and Gods true Religion, and finally to the utter subversion of the whole public estate and Common-wealth of England? Let Norfolk and Suffolk, let her own Promise and Proclamation, let her fathers Testament, let the City of London, let the ancient Laws and Acts of Parliaments before established in England, be judges betwixt mine accusation and her most tyrannous iniquity.
1I finde that Iezabel (that cursed Idolatresse) caused the blood of the Prophets of God to be shed, and Naboth to be murthered unjustly for his own Vineyard; but yet I think she never erected halfe so many Gallows in all Israel, as mischievous Mary hath done within London alone: But you Papists will excuse your Mary the Virgine: