A47584:766
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.
We say our God suffered none of these, whom he first called to the Battle to perish or to fall, the while that he made them Victors of their enemies: For even as God suffered none of those whom he called from Egypt, to perish in the Red Sea, how fearful that ever the danger appeared; so suffered he none of us to be approved, nor yet to be taken from this life, till that now the Pharaohs, then one, was drowned, and we set at freedom, without all danger of our enemies; to let both us and our Posterity understand, That such as follow the conducting of God, cannot perish, albeit they walked in the very shadow of death. But from whence (alas) cometh this miserable dispersion of Gods people within this Realm this day, in May 1561? And what is the cause that now the just is compelled to keep silence, good men are banished, Murderers, and such as are known unworthy of common Society) if Justice were put in execution) bear the whole Regiment and sway within this Realm?
We say our God suffered none of these, whom he first called to the Battell to perish or to fall, the while that he made them Victors of their enemies: For even as God suffered none of those whom he called from Egypt, to perish in the Red Sea, how fearfull that ever the danger appeared; so suffered he none of us to be approved, nor yet to be taken from this life, till that now the Pharaohs, then one, was drowned, and we set at freedom, without all danger of our enemies; to let both us and our Posterity understand, That such as follow the conducting of God, cannot perish, albeit they walked in the very shadow of death. But from whence (alas) cometh this miserable dispersion of Gods people within this Realme this day, in May 1561? And what is the cause that now the just is compelled to keep silence, good men are banished, Murtherers, and such as are knowne unworthy of common Society) if Justice were put in execution) bear the whole Regiment and sway within this Realme?
1We answer, Because that suddenly the most part of us declined from the purity of Gods Word, and began to follow the world, and so again shake hands with the devil, and with Idolatry, as in the fourth Book we will hear.