A47584:1496
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.
A SERMON Preached By John Knox.
Isaiah 26.13, 14, 15, 16, &c. O Lord our God, other lords besides thee have had dominion over us; but by thee only will we make mention of thy Name. They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise; therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish. Thou hast increased the Nation, O Lord, thou hast increased the Nation, thou art glorified, thou hast removed it far unto the ends of the earth. Lord, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them. &c.
Esay 26.13, 14, 15, 16, &c. O Lord our God, other lords besides thee have had dominion over us; but by thee onely will we make mention of thy Name. They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise; therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish. Thou hast increased the Nation, O Lord, thou hast increased the Nation, thou art glorified, thou hast removed it farre unto the ends of the earth. Lord, in trouble have they visited thee, they powred out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them. &c.
AS the cunning Mariner (being Master) having his Ship tossed with a vehement tempest, and contrary winds, is compelled oft to traverse, lest that either by too much resisting to the violence of the Waves, his Vessel might be over whelmed; or by too much liberty granted, to be carried whither the fury of the tempest would, his Ship should be driven upon the shore, and so make shipwreck; even so doth our Prophet Isaiah in this Text, which now you have heard read; for he foreseeing the great desolation that was decreed in the Council of the Eternal, against Jerusalem and Judah, to wit, That the whole people that bare the Name of God should be dispersed; that the holy City should be destroyed, the Temple wherein was the Ark of the Covenant, and where God had promised to give his own presence, should be burnt with fire, the King taken, his sons in his own presence murdered, his own eyes immediately after to be put out, the Nobility, some cruelly murdered, some shamefully led