A47584:1367
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.
Speak now (O ye Papists) and defend your monstrous Masters, and deny, if ye can for shame, that she hath not uttered her self to be borne (alas therefore) to the ruin and destruction of noble England? Oh who would ever have believed (I write now in bitterness of heart) that such unnatural cruelty should have had dominion over any reasonable creature? But ⟨p. 61⟩the saying to be true, That the usurped Government of an affectionate woman is a rage without reason.
Speak now (O ye Papists) and defend your monstrous Masters, and deny, if ye can for shame, that she hath not uttered her self to be borne (alas therefore) to the ruine and destruction of noble England? Oh who would ever have beleeved (I write now in bitternesse of heart) that such unnaturall crueltie should have had dominion over any reasonable creature? But ⟨p. 61⟩the saying to be true, That the usurped Government of an affectionate woman is a rage without reason.
Who would ever have thought,1 that the love of that Realm, which hath brought forth, which hath nourished and so nobly maintained that wicked woman,2 should not have moved her heart with pity? Who seeth not now, that she in all her doings declareth most manifestly, that under an English name she beareth a Spaniards heart? If God (I say) had not for our scourge, suffered her and her cruel Council to have come to Authority, then could never these their abominations, cruelty and treason against God, against his Saints, and against the Realm, whose liberties they are sworn to defend, so manifestly have been declared: And who ever could have believed, That proud Gardener, and treacherous Tunstall (whom all Papists praised, for the love they bare to their Country) could have become so manifestly Traitorous, not only against their solemn Oaths, that they should never consent nor agree unto, that a foreign Stranger should reign over England; but also that they would adjudge the Imperial Crown of the same to appertain to a Spaniard by inheritance Lineal descent? O Traitorous Traitors, how can you for shame show your faces.