A47584:1378
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.
This same expostulation of Moses, declareth how sore he was tempted; yea, and what opinion he had conceived of God, that is, That God was either impotent, and could not deliver his people from such a tyrants hands; or else, That he was mutable, and unjust of his promises. And this same, and sorer temptations, assaulted the people; For in anguish of heart, they both refused God and Moses (as we before have partly touched.) And what means used God to comfort them in that great extremity? Did he straightway suddenly kill Pharaoh, the great Tyrant? No. Did he send them a legion of Angels to defend and deliver them? No such thing: But he only reciteth and beateth into their ears his former promises to them, which oftentimes they had before; And yet the rehearsal of the same wrought so mightily in the heart of Moses, that not only was bitterness and despair removed away, but also he was inflamed with such boldness, that without fear he went again to the presence of the King, after he had been threatened and repulsed by him.
This same expostulation of Moses, declareth how sore he was tempted; yea, and what opinion he had conceived of God, that is, That God was either impotent, and could not deliver his people from such a tyrants hands; or else, That he was mutable, and unjust of his promises. And this same, and sorer temptations, assaulted the people; For in anguish of heart, they both refused God and Moses (as we before have partly touched.) And what meanes used God to comfort them in that great extremity? Did he straightway suddenly kill Pharaoh, the great Tyrant? No. Did he send them a legion of Angels to defend and deliver them? No such thing: But he onely reciteth and beateth into their ears his former promises to them, which oftentimes they had before; And yet the rehearsall of the same wrought so mightily in the heart of Moses, that not onely was bitternesse and despair removed away, but also he was enflamed with such boldnesse, that without fear he went again to the presence of the King, after he had been threatned and repulsed by him.
This I write, beloved in the Lord, that ye knowing the Word of God not only to be that,1