A47584:742
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.
But let the Papists be yet once again assured, That their Pride and Idolatry we will not suffer. Directed from the assembly of the Church the 28 of May 1561. And sent by these brethren; The Master of Lindsay, The Laird of Lochinvar, The Laird of Pharmherst, The Laird of Whittingham, Thomas Menzeis Provest of Aberdeen, and George Lowell Burgess of Dundee.
But let the Papists be yet once againe assured, That their Pride and Idolatry we will not suffer. Directed from the assembly of the Church the 28 of May 1561. And sent by these brethren; The Master of Lindsay, The Laird of Lochinvar, The Laird of Pharmherst, The Laird of Whittingham, Thomas Menzeis Provest of Aberdeene, and George Lowell Burgesse of Dundie.
Upon the which Request and Articles, the Lords and Council aforesaid, made an Act and Ordinance, answering to every head of the foresaid Articles, and commanded Letters to be answered thereupon, which divers Ministers raised and copied, as in the Books of secret Council is yet to be found.
Upon the which Request and Articles, the Lords and Counsell aforesaid, made an Act and Ordinance, answering to every head of the foresaid Articles, and commanded Letters to be answered thereupon, which divers Ministers raised and copied, as in the Books of secret Councell is yet to be found.
And thus gat Satan the second fall,1 after that he had begun to trouble the state of Religion, once established by Law. His first assault was by the rascal multitude, opposing themselves to the punishment of vice. The second was by the Bishops and their bands, in which he thought utterly to have triumphed: And yet he in the end prospered worse then ye have heard. In this mean time returned from France the Lord James, who beside his great expenses, and the loss of a box wherein was his secret purse, escaped a desperate danger in Paris: for his returning from our Sovereign (who then was with the Cardinal of Loraine her Uncle in Rhemes) understood of the Papists in Paris, they had conspired some treasonable act against him; for they intended either to have beset his house by night, or else to have assaulted him and his company as they walked in the streets: Whereof the said Lord James advertised by the Rinegrave, by reason of old familiarity which was betwixt them in Scotland; he took purpose suddenly and in good order,