A47584:1391
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.
The like we read of Zedekiah the wretched and last King of Judah, before the destruction of the City of Jerusalem, who in his great fear, and extreme anguish, sent for Jeremiah the Prophet, and secretly demanded of him, How he might escape the great danger that appeared, when the Chaldeans besieged the City.1 And the Prophet boldly spake and commanded the King, if he would save his life and the City, to render and give up himself into the hands of the King of Babylon. But the miserable King had no grace to follow the Prophets counsel, because he never delighted in the said Prophets Doctrine, neither yet had showed unto him any friendly favour; But even as the enemies of God, the chief Priests and false Prophets required of the King, so was the good Prophet evilly used; sometimes cast into prison, and sometimes judged and condemned to die. The most evident testimony of the wilful blinding of wicked Idolaters, is written and recited in the same Prophet Jeremiah, as followeth.
The like we reade of Zedekiah the wretched and last King of Iudah, before the destruction of the City of Ierusalem, who in his great fear, and extreme anguish, sent for Ieremiah the Prophet, and secretly demanded of him, How he might escape the great danger that appeared, when the Caldeans besieged the City.1 And the Prophet boldly spake and commanded the King, if he would save his life and the City, to render and give up himself into the hands of the King of Babylon. But the miserable King had no grace to follow the Prophets counsell, because he never delighted in the said Prophets Doctrine, neither yet had shewed unto him any friendly favour; But even as the enemies of God, the chiefe Priests and false Prophets required of the King, so was the good Prophet evilly used; sometimes cast into prison, and sometimes judged and condemned to die. The most evident testimony of the wilfull blinding of wicked Idolaters, is written and recited in the same Prophet Ieremiah, as followeth.
- 1Jerem. 37, 38.