A47584:719
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.
When all things, we say, were in this readiness to shed the blood of innocents, the eternal, our God, who ever watcheth for the preservation of his own, began to work, and suddenly did put his own work in execution, for as the said King sat at Mass, he was suddenly stricken with an Aposthume, in that deaf ear that never would hear the Trueth of God, and so was he carried to a void and empty house, laid upon a palliasse unto such time as a Cannaby was set up unto him, where he lay till the fifteenth day of December,1 in the year of God 1560. When his glory perished, and the pride of his stubborn heart vanished in smoke; And so was the snare broken; The Tyrants disappointed of their cruelty; Those that was appointed to death, raised, as it were, out of their graves; And we, who by our foolishness had made our selves slaves to strangers, were restored again to freedom and liberty of a free Realm.
When all things, we say, were in this readinesse to shed the blood of innocents, the eternall, our God, who ever watcheth for the preservation of his owne, began to worke, and suddenly did put his own work in execution, for as the said King sat at Masse, he was suddenly stricken with an Aposthume, in that deaf ear that never would hear the Trueth of God, and so was he carried to a void and empty house, laid upon a palliase unto such time as a Cannaby was set up unto him, where he lay till the fifteenth day of December,1 in the yeere of God 1560. When his glory perished, and the pride of his stubborne heart vanished in smoke; And so was the snare broken; The Tyrants disappointed of their crueltie; Those that was appointed to death, raised, as it were, out of their graves; And we, who by our foolishnesse had made our selves slaves to strangers, were restored againe to freedome and libertie of a free Realme.
- 115. December 1560.
O that we had hearts deeply to consider what are thy wondrous works (O Lord) that we might praise thee in the midst of this most obstinate and wicked generation, and leave the memorial of the same to our posterities, which alas, we fear shall forget these thy inestimable benefits.