A47584:1438
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 Copy of A LETTER Delivered To Queen Mary, Regent OF SCOTLAND, FROM JOHN KNOX Minister of Gods Word, in the year of our Lord, 1556. and thereafter augmented and explained by the Author, in the year of our Lord, 1558.
The Copie of A LETTER Delivered To Queen Mary, Regent OF SCOTLAND, FROM IOHN KNOX Minister of Gods Word, in the yeer of our Lord, 1556. and thereafter augmented and explained by the Author, in the yeer of our Lord, 1558.
To the most Excellent Princess MARY, DOWAGER Regent of Scotland. MADAME,
To the most Excellent Princesse MARY, DOVVAGER Regent of Scotland. MADAME,
THE cause which moved me to present this my Supplication unto your Majesty, enlarged, and in some places explained (being in the Realm of Scotland in the Month of May, 1556. I caused to be presented to your Majesty) is the incredible rage of such as bear the Title of Bishops, who, against all justice and equity, have pronounced against me a most cruel sentence, ⟨p. 81⟩condemning my Body to Fire, my Soul to Damnation, and all Doctrine taught by me, to be false, deceivable, and Heretical: If this injury did tend to me alone, having the testimony of a good conscience, with silence I could pass the matter, being assured, that such as they curse and expel their Synagogues for such causes, shall God bless, and Christ Jesus receive in his eternal society: But considering that this their blasphemy is vomited forth against the eternal Truth of Christs Evangel, (whereof it hath pleased the great mercy of God to make me a Minister) I cannot cease to notify, as well to your Majesty, as to them, That so little am I afraid of their Tyrannical and surmised sentence, that in place of the Picture (if God impede not my purpose) they shall have the Body to justice that Doctrine, which they (Members of Satan) blasphemously do condemn. Advertising your Majesty in the mean time, That from them, their sentence and tyranny, and from all those that lift to maintain them in the same, I do appeal to a lawful and general Council; beseeching your Majesty to take in good part, that I call you for witness, that I have required the liberty of tongue, and my Cause to be heard before your Majesty and the Body of the Realm, before that any such Process was laid against me; as this my Letter directed to your Majesty doth testify.