A47584:560
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.
This is the effect and sum of all that I said at that time, and willed him if he pleased to communicate the same to your Majesty. And the same yet again I notify unto your Majesty by this my Letter, written and subscribed at Edinburgh, the 26 day of October 1559. Sic subscribitur. Your Majesties to command in all godliness, John Knox. Postscriptum. God move your heart yet in time to consider, That ye fight not against men, but against the eternal God, and against his Son Jesus Christ, the only Prince of the Kings of the earth.
This is the effect and sum of all that I said at that time, and willed him if he pleased to communicate the same to your Majestie. And the same yet againe I notifie unto your Majestie by this my Letter, written and subscribed at Edinburgh, the 26 day of October 1559. Sic subscribitur. Your Majesties to command in all godlinesse, John Knox. Postscriptum. God move your heart yet in time to consider, That ye fight not against men, but against the eternall God, and against his Son Iesus Christ, the onely Prince of the Kings of the earth.
At which answer, the said M. Robert was so offended, that he would not deliver his Letters, saying, That we were ungodly, and injurious to the Queen Regent, if we suspected any craft in her. To the which it was answered by one of the Preachers, That time should declare whether he or they were deceived, if she should not declare her self enemy to the true Religion which they professed, if ever she had the upper hand, then they would be content to confess, That they had suspected her sincerity without just cause. But if she should declare her malice no less in times coming then she had done before they required that he should be more moderate, then to condemn them whose conscience he knoweth not, and this was the end of his travel for that time. After that he had troubled the conscience of many godly and quiet persons. For he and others who were her hired posts, ceased not to blow in the ears of all men, That the Queen was heavily dealt with, That she required nothing but obedience to her daughter, That she was content that the true Religion should go forward,1