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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
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for abusing of the Common-wealth, and for his other villainies, which we lift not to express, by the counsel and hands of James Douglas Earl of Morton, Patrick Lord Lindsay, and the Lord Ruthven, with other assisters in the company, who all for their just act, and most worthy of all praise, are now unworthily left of all their brethren, and suffer the bitterness of banishment & exile But this is our hope in the mercies of our God, That this same blind Generation whether it will or not, shall be compelled to see, That he will have respect to them that are injustly pursued, That he will pardon their former offences, That he will restore them to the liberty of their Country and Common-wealth again; And that he will punish (in despite of man) the head and the tail, that now troubles the just, and maintaineth impiety. The head is known, the tail hath two branches.1 The temporal Lords that maintain such abominations as we see, & flattering counsellors of State, blasphemous Balfour, now called clerk of Register, Sinclare Dean of Lestarrig, and Bp. of Brechen, ⟨p. 95⟩blind of one eye in the body, but of both of his soul, upon whom God shortly after took vengeance. Leslie Preistesgate, Abbot of Londrosse, and Bishop of Rosse. Simon Preston, of Cragmillar, a right Epicurean: Whose end will be ere it be long according to their works. But now to return to our History.
for abusing of the Common-wealth, and for his other villanies, which we lift not to expresse, by the counsell and hands of Iames Dowglas Earl of Mortoun, Patrick Lord Lindsay, and the Lord Ruthwen, with other assisters in the company, who all for their just act, and most worthy of all praise, are now unworthily left of all their brethren, and suffer the bitternes of banishment & exile But this is our hope in the mercies of our God, That this same blinde Generation whether it will or not, shall be compelled to see, That he will have respect to them that are injustly pursued, That he will pardon their former offences, That he will restore them to the liberty of their Country and Common-wealth again; And that he will punish (in despight of man) the head and the taile, that now troubles the just, and maintaineth impiety. The head is known, the tail hath two branches.1