A47584:461
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.
These our Letters being divulgate, some began to reason, Whether in conscience they might invade us, or not, considering that we offered due obedience to the Authority, requiring nothing, but liberty of conscience, and our Religion and fact to be tried by the Word of God. Our Letters came with convenient expedition to the hands of our brethren in Cuninghame and Kyle, who assembled at the Church of Craggy; where after some contrarious reasons, Alexander Earle of Glencarne, in zeal burst forth in these words, Let every man serve his conscience, I will, by Gods grace, see my brethren in S. Johnston:1 Yea, albeit never man should accompany me, yet I will go, and if it were but a Pike upon my shoulder; for I had rather die with that company, then live after them. These words so encouraged the rest, that all decreed to go forward, as that they did so stoutly, that when the ⟨p. 143⟩Lion Herald in his coat of Arms, commanded all men under pain of treason to return to their houses by public sound of trumpet in Glasgow, never man obeyed that charge, but all went forward, as we shall after hear. When it was clearly understood that the Prelates and their adherents suppressing our Petitions so far as in them lay, did kindle the fury of all men against us: it was thought expedient to write unto them some Declaration of our minds, which we did in this form following.
These our Letters being divulgate, some began to reason, Whether in conscience they might invade us, or not, considering that we offred due obedience to the Authority, requiring nothing, but liberty of conscience, and our Religion and fact to be tried by the Word of God. Our Letters came with convenient expedition to the hands of our brethren in Cuninghame and Kyle, who assembled at the Church of Craggie; where after some contrarious reasons, Alexander Earle of Glencarne, in zeal burst forth in these words, Let every man serve his conscience, I will, by Gods grace, see my brethren in S. Johnston:1 Yea, albeit never man should accompany me, yet I will go, and if it were but a Pike upon my shoulder; for I had rather die with that company, then live after them. These words so encouraged the rest, that all decreed to go forward, as that they did so stoutly, that when the ⟨p. 143⟩