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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 Sub-Prior. Will ye bind us so straight, that we may do nothing without the express Word of God. What and I ask drink, Think ye that I sin? and yet I have not Gods Word for me. This answer gave he as might appear to shift over the Argument upon the Friar, as that he did.
The Sub-Prior. Will ye binde us so straight, that we may do nothing without the expresse Word of God. What and I ask drink, Think ye that I sinne? and yet I have not Gods Word for me. This answer gave he as might appear to shift over the Argument upon the Frier, as that he did.
John Knox. I would ye should not jest in so grave a matter, neither would I that ye should begin to hide the Trueth with Sophistry, and if ye do, I will defend it the best that I can. And first to your drinking, I say, that if ye either eat or drink without assurance of Gods Word, that in so doing ye displease God, and sin in your very eating and drinking. For saith not the Apostle (speaking even of meat and drink) That the creatures are sanctified unto men, even by word and prayer. The word is this, All things are clean to the clean. Now let me hear this much of your Ceremonies, and I shall give you the Argument, but I wonder that they compare things profane and holy things so indiscreetly together. The Question was not, nor is not of meat or drink, whereinto the Kingdom of God consisteth not. But the Question is of Gods true worshipping, without the which we can have no society with God. And here it is doubted, if we may take the same freedom in the using of Christs Sacraments, that we may do in eating and drinking. One meat I may eat, another I may refuse, and that without scruple of conscience. I may change one with another, even as oft as I please. Whether may we cast away what we please, and retain what we please? If I be well remembered, Moses in the Name of God saith to the people of Israel; All that the Lord thy God commandeth thee to do, that do thou to the Lord thy God, add nothing to it, diminish nothing from it. ⟨p. 80⟩By these rules think I that the Church of Christ will measure Gods Religion, and not by that which seems good in their own eyes.