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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.
And so we began to do, for troubles appearing, made us give ear to the admonitions of Gods servants. And while that we had scarcely begun again to implore the help of our God, and to show some signs of our obedience unto his Messengers, and holy Word, Lo the mighty hand of God from above sent unto us a wonderful and most joyful deliverance:1 For unhappy Francis, husband to our Sovereign, suddenly perished of a rotten ear. But because the death of that young man was not only the cause of joy to us in Scotland, but also by it were the faithful in France delivered as it were from the present death. We think expedient to speak of the same somewhat more largely.
And so we began to do, for troubles appearing, made us give eare to the admonitions of Gods servants. And while that we had scarcely begun again to implore the help of our God, and to shew some signes of our obedience unto his Messengers, and holy Word, Lo the mighty hand of God from above sent unto us a wonderfull and most joyfull deliverance:1 For unhappy Francis, husband to our Soveraigne, suddenly perished of a rotten eare. But because the death of that young man was not onely the cause of joy to us in Scotland, but also by it were the faithfull in France delivered as it were from the present death. We think expedient to speak of the same somewhat more largely.
- 1The death of the young King of France husband to our Queen.The death of the yong King of France husband to our Queen.
These cruel and conjured enemies of God and of all godliness, the Duke of Guise, the Cardinal of Loraine, and their faction, who then at their own appetite plaid the Tyrants in France, had determined the destruction of all that professed the true knowledge of Jesus Christ within that Realm. What tyranny late before they had used at Amboise, the History of France doth witness: now in Orleans in the month of November, convened the King, unhappy Francis, the Queen our Sovereign, and the Queen mother of the King, the Duke of Guise, with all his faction: The King of Navarre, and the Prince of Condie, his brother.