The History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland

every one provoked other to cast stones at us: One cried, Alas if I might see another defy given;¹ Give advertisement to the French-men, that they may come, and we shall help them now to cut the throats of these heretics. And ⟨p. 206⟩thus, as the sword of dolour passed through our hearts, so were the cogitations and former determinations of many hearts then revealed: For we would never have believed that our natural Country-men and women could have wished our destruction so unmercifully,² and have so rejoiced in our adversity (God move their hearts to repentance) for else we fear that he whose Cause we sustain, shall let them feel the weight of the yoke of cruel strangers, into whose hands they wished us to have been betrayed. We stayed not, till we came to Stirling, which we did the day after that we departed from Edinburgh; for it was concluded, that there consultation should be taken, What was the next remedy in so desperate a matter. The next Wednesday, which was the 7 of November, John Knox preached (John Willock was gone into England, as before he appointed) and treated of the 5, 6, 7, and 8 Verses of the 80 Psalm, where David, in the person of the afflicted people of God, speaketh this in the fourth Verse:

every one provoked other to cast stones at us: One cryed, Alas if I might see another defie given;¹ Give advertisement to the French-men, that they may come, and we shall help them now to cut the throats of these hereticks. And ⟨p. 206⟩thus, as the sword of dolour passed thorow our hearts, so were the cogitations and former determinations of many hearts then revealed: For we would never have believed that our naturall Countrey-men and women could have wished our destruction so unmercifully,² and have so rejoyced in our adversity (God move their hearts to repentance) for else we fear that he whose Cause we sustain, shall let them feel the weight of the yoke of cruell strangers, into whose hands they wished us to have been betrayed. We stayed not, till we came to Sterlin, which we did the day after that we departed from Edinburgh; for it was concluded, that there consultation should be taken, What was the next remedy in so desperate a matter. The next Wednesday, which was the 7 of November, Iohn Knox preached (Iohn Willock was gone into England, as before he appointed) and treated of the 5, 6, 7, and 8 Verses of the 80 Psalm, where David, in the person of the afflicted people of God, speaketh this in the fourth Verse: