TO
THE
●VRITAINE
MINISTERS
OF
GREAT
BRITANIE
HIS
COVNTREYMEN
Iohn
Fraser
wisheth
vpright
mynd
towarde
bothe
God
and
Prince
.
HEARING
of
your
extraordinarie
dealing
,
according
to
the
nature
of
your
extraordinarie
calling
,
in
outward
shew
onely
gainst
Catholique
men
,
In
very
deed
against
o
the
God
&
Prince
.
I
thought
it
my
duetie
or
the
publike
good
,
to
write
some
thing
ouching
that
subiect
where
by
ye
might
nderstand
how
ye
deceaue
your selues
,
and
buse
others
in
that
mater
;
which
is
this
:
●e
labour
by
al
meanes
to
constraine
men
,
●ho
at
Catholique
(
for
as
to
others
men
ye
●
not
very
careful
)
to
approue
sweare
and
●bscribe
your
confession
of
faith
;
and
in
case
they
refuse
,
ye
take
vpon
you
to
excommunicat
them
.
Wherefore
with
Godds
grace
we
shal
latt
you
see
,
that
no
honest
man
,
true
subiect
or
good
Christian
with
safe
conscience
,
can
approue
sweare
or
subscribe
your
forsaid
confession
:
&
that
ye
haue
no
power
at
al
to
excommunicat
any
man
:
and
although
ye
had
,
yet
could
ye
not
excommunicat
Catholique
men
.
2.
As
a
plaine
dealer
without
further
preface
I
wil
enter
in
the
matter
.
Then
to
the
first
head
,
it
is
certaine
that
whosoeuer
wil
sweare
and
subscribe
your
new
confession
,
contrarie
to
the
duetie
of
an
honest
man
,
putteth
him self
in
hazard
to
be
mensworne
,
and
that
in
the
very
entrie
of
his
othe
:
for
thir
be
your
words
,
if
I
rightly
remember
:
we
al
and
euerie
one
of
vs
vnder
written
protest
,
that
after
long
and
dew
examination
of
our
owne
consciences
in
maters
of
true
and
false
religion
,
ar
now
throughly
resolued
in
the
trueth
by
the
word
and
spirit
of
God
.
Many
faltes
in
fewe
wordes
,
if
men
would
long
tyme
,
and
duely
examine
them
in
their
consciences
before
they
approue
,
subscribe
or
sweare
them
to
be
true
:
for
first
euery
man
here
answereth
for
his
companion
&
fellow
saying
:
we
al
&
euerie
one
of
vs
&c.
where
if
any
of
the
nomber
hath
spoken
against
the
veritie
or
his
conscience
,
al
the
rest
ar
lyers
.
Nixt
,
what
examination
can
be
long
in
so
weghtie
a
matter
?
certainely
not
fourtie
dayes
,
yea
not
fourtie
yeares
.
When
these
thinges
cometh
in
controuersie
we
may
wel
say
without
reprehension
Deliberandum
est
diu
,
quod
statuendum
est
semel
.
Thirdly
,
how
can
any
man
duely
examine
his
conscience
in
matters
of
true
and
false
religion
,
seing
that
his
conscience
or
iudgement
can
not
be
a
iust
square
of
religion
,
because
it
surmounteth
al
humaine
reason
,
&
is
comprehended
onely
by
faith
,
not
of
our
owne
forgeing
,
but
of
Goddes
free
gift
?
or
how
can
he
duely
iudge
vpon
true
and
false
religion
who
neuer
hath
seene
,
heard
,
or
reade
the
reasons
of
al
parties
?
For
as
a
temporal
iudge
,
not
without
great
reason
,
may
be
thought
to
iudge
very
rashly
,
if
he
pronunce
his
sentence
&
decreit
before
he
heare
bothe
the
parties
,
not
withstanding
the
matter
be
of
smal
importance
and
value
,
and
that
he
haue
iudged
according
to
the
right
,
because
he
hath
iudged
before
he
knew
the
ground
of
the
matter
,
and
so
if
he
hath
done
wel
,
it
was
more
by
happe
then
good
reason
.
So
the
spiritual
iudge
may
be
esteemed
rash
and
foolish
,
if
in
matters
of
religion
and
faith
he
decreit
any
thing
,
except
▪
al
reasons
be
wel
discussed
.
Wherefor
he
who
would
duely
examine
his
conscience
in
maters
of
tr●w
and
fals●
religion
(
seing
he
take●h
vpon
him
the
charge
&
place
of
a
iudge
)
should
with
great
discretion
,
quyet
spirit
&
humble
mynd
,
without
any
passion
trye
both
the
true
&
false
,
read
al
books
touching
that
subiect
,
weighing
the
reason
diligently
:
because
the
profit
is
great
to
them
that
goeth
right
,
and
the
danger
likewise
to
them
who
goeth
wronge
.
Now
how
the
greater
part
of
your
sweares
and
subscribers
can
do
or
execute
this
charge
truely
I
see
not
,
yea
can
not
gesse
,
seing
that
a
good
nomber
of
your selues
,
who
ar
ministers
,
and
should
be
best
armed
at
destitute
bothe
of
bookes
and
good
learning
.
Certainly
ye
can
not
iustly
aske
of
gentilmen
,
or
others
of
meaner
degree
making
profession
of
armes
or
housbandry
,
that
which
,
ye
your selues
who
do
make
profession
of
letters
can
not
do
:
ye
may
easely
iudge
that
gentilmen
and
commone
people
for
lacke
bothe
of
learning
and
bookes
can
not
duely
,
and
for
lacke
of
tyme
can
not
long
and
worthly
examine
their
conscience
in
sic
things
their
affaires
ay
hol●ing
them
occupied
otherwise
;
meikilles
to
sweare
that
they
haue
done
that
,
which
neither
haue
they
done
,
nor
could
they
do
at
any
tyme
.
Albeit
there
were
no
othere
reason
but
this
,
yetafter
my
iudgement
,
it
were
most
iust
&
sufficient
for
any
man
to
refuse
your
subcription
and
swearing
,
and
should
moue
you
not
to
vrge
men
there
to
,
except
perhapes
ye
seeke
only
their
vtter
ruine
and
damnation
,
for
doubtles
they
ar
mensworne
who
sweareth
that
to
be
true
▪
which
in
their
conscience
they
knowe
to
be
false
,
or
ar
not
assured
if
it
be
true
,
of
which
nature
ar
theis
thinges
which
ar
conteined
in
your
confession
,
seing
they
proceede
of
men
who
ar
subiect
to
errour
and
false
opinion
,
and
so
can
gif
no
good
assurance
,
where
vpon
men
may
establish
their
faith
.
Which
cannot
be
certaine
and
firme
except
it
haue
an
infallible
ground
and
fondament
free
frome
all
suspicion
of
errour
.
I
may
with
many
weightie
reasons
proue
that
honestie
could
not
stand
with
sic
maners
▪
and
shall
bring
them
if
it
be
needfull
.
3
▪
For
the
seconde
head
it
is
●ar
against
the
duetie
of
a
true
subiect
towardes
his
Prince
and
liege
lord
,
to
whom
he
is
obliged
from
the
first
moment
of
his
birth
to
his
last
breath
,
wherefor
can
not
gif
his
band
of
māred
,
no●
othe
of
fidelitie
to
any
other
but
with
exception
of
his
soueraigne
,
which
notwithstanding
ye
desire
of
your
subscribers
:
for
speaking
of
the
worde
of
God
(
for
so
ye
call
your
interpretations
)
and
doctrine
of
your
reformed
kirk
,
ye
say
thus
,
to
the
which
we
ioyne
ourselues
willingly
in
doctrine
,
faith
,
religion
,
discipline
and
vse
of
th
holie
sacraments
as
liuely
members
of
the
same
in
Christ
our
head
,
promising
and
swearing
,
by
the
Great
name
of
the
Lord
,
that
we
shall
continue
in
the
obedience
of
the
doctrine
and
discipline
of
this
kirk
,
and
shall
defend
the
same
according
to
our
vocation
and
power
all
the
dayes
of
our
liues
,
vnder
the
paines
conteined
in
the
lawe
,
and
danger
bothe
of
body
and
soule
,
in
the
day
of
Goddes
fearfull
iudgement
.
There
be
here
an
absolute
othe
and
without
any
exception
,
made
to
you
and
your
reformed
kirk
,
not
onely
in
matters
of
religion
and
doctrine
,
but
also
in
gouerment
and
discipline
.
It
is
not
my
intent
at
this
present
to
examine
the
manyfold
absurdities
of
this
new
forme
of
othe
,
in
passing
I
say
onely
,
that
it
shal
be
very
hard
to
any
of
your
swearers
to
behaue
him
sel●e
well
with
other
protestant
ki●kes
,
who
are
bothe
in
doctrine
and
discipline
far
different
from
you
:
shall
he
enter
incontinent
in
desence
of
your
reformation
?
shall
he
trouble
all
states
where
he
doeth
come
?
Truely
all
men
ha●e
that
opinion
of
your
religion
,
that
it
bringeth
euerie
where
seditions
with
it
,
as
the
most
turbulent
sect
that
euer
yet
was
inuented
in
our
contrey
.
Ne
longe
exempla
petantur
Betonio
primi
maduerunt
sanguine
muri
.
Or
shall
he
following
the
maxime
of
your
faith
call
all
in
doubt
not
withstanding
of
his
othe
,
●ecause
ye
are
but
men
and
may
erre
,
except
●e
may
gif
some
good
and
sure
reason
,
why
●e
onely
say
true
,
and
all
the
rest
of
the
world
false
,
and
that
nothing
can
procede
out
of
your
mouth
,
but
veritie
:
for
your
othe
importeth
no
lesse
with
it
.
And
certainely
without
that
pretogatiue
of
assured
veritie
bound
to
your
heads
and
tounges
,
to
astrict
men
to
your
doctrine
and
discipline
formed
or
reformed
by
you
,
neglecting
the
authoritie
of
your
reformed
kirk
in
generall
,
may
seeme
somewhat
against
reason
,
and
very
preiudiciable
to
the
Prince
and
common
wealthe
.
For
by
this
othe
all
must
depend
vpon
you
as
vpon
the
soueraigne
magistrat
,
the
solemne
othe
&
absolute
promise
beinge
made
in
fauour
of
your
doctrine
&
discipline
,
which
ye
haue
in
your
hands
and
ministration
.
This
may
be
easely
seene
by
the
othe
made
to
the
Kinges
Maiestie
,
or
rather
against
him
,
which
ye
sett
downe
in
this
forme
.
And
because
we
perceaue
that
the
quyetnes
and
stabilitie
of
our
religion
and
kirk
doeth
depend
vpon
the
safetie
,
and
good
behauiour
of
the
Kinges
Maieste
as
vpon
a
confortable
instrument
of
Goddes
mercie
graunted
to
this
countrey
sor
the
mainteining
of
his
kirk
and
ministration
of
iustice
among
vs
.
We
protest
and
promise
with
our
heartes
vnder
the
same
othe
,
handwrit
,
and
paines
,
that
we
shall
defend
his
persone
and
Authoritie
,
with
our
geir
,
bodies
,
and
liues
,
in
the
defence
of
Christes
Euangell
,
libertie
of
our
countrey
ministration
of
iustice
,
and
punishment
of
iniquitie
,
against
all
enemies
within
this
realme
or
without
,
as
we
desire
our
God
to
be
a
strong
and
mercifull
defender
to
vs
in
the
day
of
our
death
,
and
comming
of
our
lord
Iesus
Christ
to
whome
with
the
father
and
the
holie
spirit
be
all
honour
&
glorie
eternally
Ai●●
Lat
vs
consider
the
partes
of
this
new
othe
.
Because
(
say
ye
)
we
perceaue
that
the
quyetnes
and
stabilitie
of
our
religion
and
kirk
doeth
depend
vpon
the
safetie
and
good
behauiour
of
the
Kinges
Matie
?
&c.
Well
begoune
truely
;
that
ye
mistak
not
your selues
,
ye
lay
downe
the
cause
why
ye
will
do
or
at
lest
appeare
to
do
some
seruice
to
his
Maiestie
,
as
long
as
ye
perceaue
thinges
that
please
you
,
that
is
as
long
,
as
al
thinges
at
donne
according
to
your
fantasie
,
ye
wil
be
good
and
obedient
subiects
,
or
rather
maisters
,
seing
ye
prescribe
conditions
to
him
who
truely
is
your
Maister
:
and
reasons
why
ye
will
bestow
any
thing
vpon
him
.
What
if
any
reformed
imaginations
take
you
,
or
some
extraordinarie
zeall
of
your
heauenly
discipline
trouble
your
braine
,
and
make
you
perceaue
according
to
your
passion
(
as
drounken
men
doeth
see
two
candels
where
there
is
but
one
)
any
other
thing
in
his
Maiestie
?
What
if
ye
find
not
that
good
behauiour
ye
looketh
for
?
Must
he
dresse
all
his
actions
to
your
fantasies
and
good
pleasure
?
will
ye
be
censours
and
comptrollers
of
his
doings
if
he
vse
not
your
counsell
and
aduys●
?
If
your
perceauing
of
thinges
to
you
agreable
be
the
ground
&
cause
of
your
promise
&
protestation
,
how
soone
ye
preceaue
in
your
fantasie
the
contrarie
,
ye
ought
him
nothing
(
I
meane
according
to
your
opinion
)
sublata
causa
●ollitur
effectus
if
I
serue
you
because
ye
nurish
me
,
if
ye
cease
to
nurish
me
,
I
am
no
further
obliged
to
serue
you
.
what
shall
become
here
of
your
hearty
promises
and
protestations
when
your
sight
shal
be
changed
?
to
what
state
shal
the
commen
wealth
be
brought
when
your
foolish
affections
shewe
a
rule
to
the
Kinges
Maiestie
and
honorable
con●ell
to
gouerne
his
realme
?
many
thinges
appeares
to
vs
otherwise
then
they
ar:
and
reasons
being
knowen
,
they
ar
found
good
,
that
seemed
ill
before
:
we
say
commonly
there
should
Caesaribus
virtus
contigit
ante
diem
.
There
be
certaine
arcana
imperij
whereto
we
can
not
penetrate
,
&
therefor
lyke
fooles
oft
tymes
we
do
iudge
rashly
,
&
condemne
thinges
which
we
vnderstand
not
.
Wherefor
we
should
do
well
not
to
enter
in
iudgement
of
so
high
matters
.
Quam
quisque
nouit
artem
in
ea
se
exerceat
.
but
your
extraordinarie
calling
maketh
you
maisters
in
all
craftes
,
and
your
new
discipline
will
not
suffer
you
to
haue
so
long
patience
.
Ye
who
enter
in
Goddes
cabinet
when
ye
list
,
must
know
all
things
at
the
first
instant
:
nothing
should
be
hid
to
you
.
ye
haue
receaued
the
spirite
of
discretion
,
nothing
should
be
donne
without
your
approbation
.
Ye
ar
in
the
chaire
of
veritie
,
ye
may
speak
what
ye
will
;
iudge
whom
ye
please
,
comptroll
whome
ye
list
:
approue
or
improue
as
ye
think
good
or
ill
:
ye
haue
taken
the
power
:
ye
haue
receaued
the
othe
:
all
men
ar
your
subiects
,
so
the
Prince
is
subiect
to
your
perceauing
,
the
principall
rule
of
your
new
populaire
tribuna●
.
But
ye
will
say
that
my
conclusion
followed
not
vpon
your
antecedent
.
I
wold
be
glad
it
were
so
&
that
I
were
deceaued
in
my
opinion
,
so
willing
I
am
to
heare
that
there
were
no
traittour
in
our
countrey
.
But
if
we
will
consider
the
solemne
othe
passed
before
in
fauour
of
your
new
reformation
,
to
defend
and
obserue
the
doctrine
and
discipline
thereof
vnder
so
horrible
a
promise
,
or
rather
imprecations
&
execrations
as
we
haue
noted
before
,
it
followed
very
necessarily
:
for
ye
may
extend
(
as
ye
do
when
it
pleased
you
)
the
borders
of
your
discipline
,
as
far
as
it
seemed
good
to
you
,
and
interpret
your
doctrine
as
ye
thinke
most
expedient
,
and
so
perceaue
what
ye
please
,
where
ye
shall
acknowledge
or
not
,
his
Maiestie
as
ye
shall
think
it
most
fit
for
your
present
place
,
or
proper
for
the
aduancement
of
your
reformed
kirk
,
to
whome
ye
will
haue
all
men
obliged
with
so
terrible
othes
without
any
exception
or
restriction
.
A
very
hard
obligation
and
lawe
,
principallie
being
at
the
execution
and
will
of
tippertin
witted
young
fellowes
(
who
commonly
at
rash
and
foolhard●e
in
all
their
doings
)
or
in
the
hands
of
ambitious
and
seditious
men
,
who
willingly
do
trouble
all
to
come
to
their
de●yre
,
to
which
by
good
meanes
they
can
not
easely
atteine
.
your
holie
poets
Buchanans
pamphelet
,
hath
many
notable
maximes
to
thi●
purpos
,
where
vpon
men
may
builde
a
world
o●
seditions
and
discords
:
But
if
your
poetes
authoritie
(
whose
aduise
not
the
lesse
ye
haue
so
skilfully
followed
that
ye
may
seeme
●ather
maisters
then
disciples
or
prentises
)
can
be
no
preiudice
to
your
pretended
innocencie
●ecause
many
are
offended
at
the
first
blast
of
the
trompette
(
behold
how
this
holie
sainct
is
become
penitente
of
his
former
offence
)
in
whiche
I
affirme
that
to
promote
a
Woman
to
beare
rule
or
empire
aboue
any
realme
nation
or
citie
is
re●ugnant
to
nature
,
cont●mel●e
to
God
,
and
a
thing
most
contrariouse
to
his
reuealed
and
approued
ordinance
:
and
because
also
,
that
some
hath
promised
(
as
I
vnderstand
)
a
consutation
of
the
same
●
haue
delayed
the
second
blast
,
till
suche
tyme
as
their
reasons
appere
,
by
the
whiche
I
either
may
be
reformed
in
opinion
,
or
els
shall
haue
further
occasion
more
simplie
and
plainly
to
vtter
my
iudgement
.
yet
in
the
meane
tyme
for
discharge
of
my
conscience
(
behold
the
holinesse
of
this
ex●raordinarie
patriarche
,
who
thinketh
him
selue
greatly
burdened
in
his
conscience
if
he
trouble
not
the
whole
state
of
the
common
wealth
)
and
for
auoyding
suspition
,
whiche
might
be
ingendred
by
reason
of
my
silence
,
I
could
not
cease
(
ô
the
good
nature
of
this
man
,
who
can
not
cease
from
ill
doing
,
sed
quis
Deus
in
fraudem
?
)
to
notifie
these
subsequent
propositions
whiche
by
Gods
grace
I
purpose
to
entreate
in
the
second
blast
promised
.
1.
It
is
noth
birth
only
nor
propinquitie
of
blood
that
maketh
a
king
lawfully
to
reigne
aboue
a
people
professing
Christe
Iesus
and
his
eternall
veritie
;
but
in
his
election
must
the
ordinance
,
which
God
hath
established
in
the
election
of
inferiour
iudges
be
obserued
.
autos
epha
.
all
princes
shal
be
subiect
to
the
peoples
iudgement
,
and
the
people
to
the
ministers
.
2.
No
manifest
Idolater
,
nor
notoriouse
●ransgressor
of
Gods
holie
precepts
ought
to
be
promoted
to
any
publike
regiment
,
honour
,
or
dignitie
in
any
realme
,
prouince
or
citie
,
that
hath
subiected
it self
to
Christe
Iesus
and
to
his
blessed
Euangil
.
3.
Neither
can
othe
nor
promisse
bynd
any
s●
people
(
call
you
these
your
hearty
protest●tions
othes
and
promises
)
to
obey
and
main●●●●
tyrannes
(
so
ye
call
all
Kinges
that
will
not
follow
your
fantasie
)
against
God
and
against
〈◊〉
trueth
knowen
.
that
is
your
new
forged
faith
.
4.
But
if
either
ra●hly
they
haue
promoted
〈◊〉
manifest
wicked
persone
,
or
yet
ignorantly
haue
ch●sen
suche
a
one
,
as
after
declareth
him self
vnworth●
of
regiment
aboue
the
people
of
God
(
and
suche
be
a●
Idolaters
and
cruel
persecutors
)
moste
iustly
may
th●
same
men
depose
and
punishe
him
that
vnaduysedl●
before
they
did
nominat
appoint
and
electe
.
Is
no●
this
a
moste
notable
argument
to
be
handle●
by
a
true
subiect
,
and
a
man
affectionat
to
the
quyetnes
of
his
natiue
countrey
?
yet
goo●
sire
Iohn
Knoxe
being
in
his
owne
opinion
a
prophete
could
not
haue
wanted
many
texts
of
the
scripture
to
proue
the
mater
.
According
to
this
exemplere
and
paterne
of
●
chosen
or
rather
imaginarie
King
,
ye
haue
formed
your
othe
:
for
neglecting
birth
and
blood
,
ye
will
that
the
Prince
be
made
by
election
,
at
lest
subiect
to
obserue
the
ordenance
that
God
hath
established
to
be
obserued
in
inferiour
iudges
and
magistrats
,
who
may
be
deposed
and
punished
if
he
passe
the
rules
prescribed
by
you
.
For
ye
will
the
people
be
free
from
all
obedience
,
promise
and
othe
to
haue
no
place
if
the
Prince
go
frome
your
religion
,
or
as
ye
call
it
,
refo●med
kirk
,
the
declaration
where
of
depended
vpon
your
discretion
&
wisdome
seing
ye
ar
made
iudges
aboue
all
men
.
●owbeit
good
reason
wold
gif
libertie
to
the
Prince
as
well
to
leaue
you
,
as
ye
haue
left
the
Catholik
kirk
if
ye
hade
not
alreddie
occupied
the
place
to
command
ouer
all
without
appeall
.
I
will
not
further
insist
in
the
examination
of
this
blast
of
winde
,
seing
it
sauoureth
so
ill
that
no
true
&
modest
subiect
can
abyd
it
.
I
say
only
that
your
othe
is
as
lyk
this
proiecte
as
euer
dauther
was
lyk
the
mother
,
and
lacketh
but
thinges
which
may
very
easely
be
vnderstood
as
we
shall
shew
after
.
4.
But
ye
will
say
that
I
am
●alignus
alien●
voluntatis
interpres
a
maliciouse
interpreter
of
other
mens
myndes
.
What
was
your
meaning
,
I
pray
you
,
when
ye
took
your
Prince
,
emprisonated
and
at
last
chased
hir
out
of
hir
owen
realme
and
pursued
to
the
death
?
What
was
your
meaning
when
during
his
Maiesties
minoritie
ye
caused
strick
money
,
marked
with
a
sword
and
this
inscription
pr●●e
,
in
me
s●
mereor
?
What
was
your
intent
now
of
late
yeares
when
ye
beseeged
the
toulbrigh
of
Edenburgh
?
was
it
the
blad●
of
rebellion
or
sword
of
Gedeor
that
was
drawen
out
that
day
?
Why
did
ye
cry
at
that
tyme
God
and
the
kirk
,
if
it
was
not
to
withdraw
the
peopl●
▪
hartes
and
obedience
from
the
Kinges
M●iestie
to
forti●ie
your
plottes
?
a
course
mo●●
▪
dangerouse
where
the
Prince
&
whole
common
wealthe
were
put
in
hazard
vpon
your
●olie
reformed
worde
.
If
I
be
not
deceaued
,
ye
would
haue
signified
by
God
and
the
kirk
your
doctrine
and
discipline
,
to
which
ye
will
haue
all
men
subiect
,
with
no
further
obedience
to
others
then
ye
think
expedient
,
and
so
no
place
for
the
Kinges
Maiestie
and
his
officers
till
it
please
you
to
employ
them
to
execute
your
plottes
,
which
onely
charge
ye
would
leaue
to
them
,
and
that
because
ye
ar
not
able
of
your selues
to
execute
sundry
thinges
that
ye
haue
inuented
▪
But
ye
will
say
,
reason
wold
that
all
thinges
should
be
subiect
to
God
:
It
is
moste
true
:
But
ye
ar
no
Gods
,
yea
not
haue
no
charge
nor
command
of
God
,
as
we
shall
shew
here
after
and
although
ye
hade
,
why
should
ye
,
vnder
pretense
of
your
new
forged
or
reformed
discipline
,
●rouble
the
whole
state
to
the
vtter
ruine
of
the
common
wealth
.
Think
ye
that
God
and
a
King
can
not
be
in
one
realme
to gether
?
or
that
God
is
accoustumed
to
destroy
Kinges
,
where
he
cometh
?
if
your
reformation
proceded
of
God
,
we
might
very
iustly
so
think
▪
seing
it
troubles
all
Princes
where
it
hath
any
credit
.
It
was
well
sayd
by
an
ancient
Scottish
priest
twelue
hondred
yeares
since
:
Non
●ripit
mortalia
,
qui
regna
dat
caelestia
.
but
he
was
a
priest
of
the
Romaine
kirk
,
and
not
a
brother
of
your
reformation
mother
of
your
detestable
paritie
,
grandmother
of
your
present
confusion
,
where
vpon
is
builded
your
sinagoge
:
permitt
me
to
say
so
seing
ye
force
men
to
enter
therein
,
because
your
calling
hath
no
power
nor
strenght
to
inuite
them
.
This
can
not
stand
with
Princes
lawfull
authoritie
.
Heare
Iesus
Christe
him self
saying
:
date
Caesari
,
quae
sunt
Caesaris
,
&
quae
Dei
,
Deo
.
Certainely
all
men
of
quyet
spirite
should
esteeme
them
enemies
bothe
to
God
and
good
reason
,
who
thinketh
the
one
contrarie
to
the
other
.
There
were
never
yet
any
people
that
hade
a
religion
without
ciuil
gouuerment
:
we
haue
seene
in
all
common
wealths
these
two
ioyned
together
,
but
most
perfectly
where
Kinges
haue
●ade
the
s●ueraigne
power
,
because
the
vnitie
is
greater
.
Ye
wold
perhapes
gladly
say
here
(
if
ye
hade
the
Christian
libertie
,
that
ye
so
earnestly
desyre
,
that
is
licence
to
do
as
ye
will
)
that
ye
at
all
priests
and
Kinges
,
and
as
ye
haue
cast
out
the
priests
of
the
kirk
for
their
misbehauiour
,
so
wold
ye
cast
Kinges
out
of
their
throanes
&
realmes
for
lyk
cause
.
assay
againe
the
play
.
assure
your selfs
that
knauery
will
not
ay
haue
good
successe
▪
If
I
be
not
deceaued
ye
shall
now
find
Kinges
more
vigilant
,
admonished
by
others
mens
exemples
,
then
ye
found
the
priests
whom
ye
violently
cast
out
,
not
by
your
vertue
&
strenght
,
but
by
their
fault
&
negligence
.
God
will
cast
the
schourge
in
the
fyre
,
when
he
shall
think
it
good
.
5.
But
to
retourne
againe
to
your
words
,
As
vpon
a
confortable
instrument
of
Goddes
mercie
,
graunted
to
this
countrey
for
the
mainteining
of
his
kirk
and
ministration
of
Iustice
among
vs
.
With
what
reuerence
obedience
and
modestie
ye
haue
receaued
that
instrument
,
I
leaue
it
to
his
Maiesties
memorie
and
your
consciences
:
and
if
a
few
of
you
ministers
gaue
him
not
more
paine
and
trouble
then
all
the
rest
of
the
realme
.
If
I
see
you
ouer
forgetfull
I
may
well
call
some
thinges
to
your
memorie
,
although
your
daylie
behauiour
might
very
well
release
me
of
that
labour
.
Truely
I
think
there
be
no
subiects
in
Europe
more
obliged
to
their
Prince
then
ye
ar
to
his
Maiestie
considering
your
de●●●tes
:
nor
no
Prince
who
haue
hade
more
rebelliouse
subiects
then
he
hath
hade
of
some
of
you
,
so
far
as
it
did
ly
in
your
power
.
ye
will
do
well
in
tymes
comming
to
mend
this
,
for
feare
ye
be
constrained
to
render
compt
of
all
together
,
giftes
abused
may
iustly
be
called
beak
:
Your
dayly
railling
against
the
present
forme
of
policie
in
England
sheweth
well
that
your
sicknes
do
increasse
.
We
protest
and
promise
with
our
heartes
(
good
and
friendly
words
truely
)
vnder
the
same
othe
,
handwritt
,
and
paines
(
quid
dignum
tanto
foret
hic
promissor
hiatu
?
)
that
we
shall
desend
his
persone
and
Authoritie
with
our
geir
,
bodies
,
and
liues
.
Parturiunt
montes
nascetur
ridiculus
mus
.
good
Sires
will
not
your
new
Euangell
suffer
you
to
do
more
for
the
Kinges
Maiestie
?
onely
to
desend
his
personne
&
authoritie
?
I
praise
your
wisdome
to
aduertise
what
●e
may
looke
for
at
your
hands
:
yet
sure
I
am
,
that
ye
your selues
wold
not
be
content
to
haue
a
seruant
in
your
house
with
so
small
seruice
,
as
ye
offer
here
to
your
soueraigne
whome
ye
wold
seeme
to
haue
greatly
obliged
.
But
at
the
lest
may
his
Maiestie
assure
him self
of
your
assistence
in
defence
of
his
persone
&
authoritie
?
No
truely
but
in
certaine
cases
,
which
ye
lny
downe
to
him
by
writt
that
he
may
craue
no
further
,
to
Witt
,
in
defence
of
Christes
Euangell
(
I
think
as
it
is
now
reformedly
preached
and
interpreted
by
you
the
discipline
hauing
it
sull
course
)
libertie
of
our
countrey
(
euery
ministe●
being
maister
)
ministration
of
iustice
(
in
chasing
away
sic
as
will
not
acknowledge
you
in
all
affaires
)
and
punishment
of
iniquitie
:
principally
if
any
man
gainesay
you
.
Nothing
at
all
for
the
Prince
?
Nothing
surely
,
if
there
cometh
none
of
thes
thinges
in
question
the
Prince
may
stand
alone
for
you
,
so
far
as
I
can
see
.
Onely
when
ye
haue
a
do
,
he
shal
be
assisted
to
do
you
seruice
,
otherwise
he
may
do
for
him self
,
if
he
thinketh
it
good
.
But
if
he
touch
your
Euangell
,
yea
with
the
vttermoste
of
his
finger
,
ye
will
put
bothe
persone
and
Authoritie
in
hazard
,
ye
ar
so
mightely
gouerned
by
the
reformed
spirite
.
I
will
not
gesse
further
your
myndes
.
Which
beareth
witnes
,
who
so
well
does
.
But
ye
will
suffer
me
to
say
that
the
subiect
not
onely
is
obliged
of
duetie
ciuil
,
but
also
in
conscience
before
God
to
defend
his
Princes
persone
without
any
exception
because
he
is
vnctus
Domini
and
one
of
the
chief
magistrates
established
by
God
him self
.
Therefore
we
never
did
reade
that
the
Christians
were
blamed
for
defending
of
the
Emprours
personnes
,
not
withstanding
that
sundry
of
them
were
most
cruell
persecutors
of
the
Christian
and
Catholik
faith
,
and
did
seeke
by
all
meanes
to
destroy
the
veritie
.
The
Christians
refuseth
onely
to
be
executers
of
these
detestable
designes
of
the
Emprours
:
yea
I
think
it
shall
never
be
found
that
the
Ancient
Godly
fathers
did
lay
to
any
Christians
charge
as
a
cryme
,
that
he
hath
garded
and
keapt
the
personne
of
Iulian
the
Apostata
▪
for
that
neuer
was
against
God
,
nor
reason
;
seing
they
were
obliged
there
to
,
as
to
a
thing
bothe
honest
and
Godly
,
which
they
could
not
neglect
without
a
great
blame
.
These
onely
were
accused
as
cursed
&
misch●euouse
men
,
who
were
instruments
of
his
abominations
.
Certainely
the
Princes
personne
should
be
holie
and
inuiolable
;
and
we
more
carefull
there
of
,
then
of
our
owne
lines
.
Lykwise
we
may
say
of
his
Authoritie
which
cometh
of
God
,
and
hath
ay
God
for
reuenger
,
if
any
man
be
so
bold
as
to
touch
it
irreuerently
.
Ye
mesure
the
Princes
persone
and
Authoritie
according
to
your
fantasie
,
making
them
great
or
small
,
to
be
obserued
or
dispysed
,
as
ye
think
proper
to
your
purpose
and
passion
.
But
ye
will
say
that
it
is
well
donne
to
defend
the
Princes
personne
&
authoritie
.
that
is
very
true
.
who
so
euer
is
owing
a
hondred
crownes
,
doeth
well
to
pay
one
crowne
,
but
not
inough
except
he
pay
the
whole
somme
,
so
your
duetie
is
not
complete
in
these
few
heads
.
These
fashions
of
othes
a●
inuented
onely
to
exempt
by
litill
and
litill
the
people
frome
the
due
obedience
oght
to
the
Prince
▪
for
the
people
thinking
that
the
othe
is
the
onely
sure
rule
of
their
due
obligation
toward
,
their
soueraigne
:
and
that
they
ar
not
further
bound
then
the
othe
sheweth
:
if
in
their
opinion
any
thing
passe
that
boundes
,
they
may
think
them
sel
es
free
and
discharged
from
further
obedience
as
not
conteined
in
their
othe
.
For
when
I
haue
donne
that
,
where
to
I
am
obliged
,
it
is
in
my
hand
if
I
will
do
any
further
:
If
I
do
more
,
I
merite
thankes
;
if
not
,
I
merite
no
reprehension
,
nor
blame
,
much
lesse
punition
.
Ye
will
not
be
offended
,
if
I
say
some
what
yet
of
your
othe
,
which
hath
beene
formed
either
with
a
great
malice
or
extreme
simplicitie
(
which
of
these
two
be
most
proper
for
your
sect
I
leaue
the
iudgement
to
others
)
which
will
be
more
cleerely
seene
if
we
shew
the
true
forme
of
othe
which
should
be
geuen
to
the
soueraigne
Prince
.
The
subiects
of
Emprour
or
King
being
as
va●●●les
(
which
we
call
commonly
lieges
)
should
make
to
their
Prince
the
othe
simplie
and
without
any
condition
,
yea
so
farre
that
swearing
fidelitie
against
al
men
they
should
not
except
them selues
.
And
therefore
the
othe
of
fidelitie
which
the
lawyers
call
sacramentum
fidelitatis
should
be
made
without
any
condition
or
restriction
:
for
if
any
sic
thing
be
put
in
the
forme
of
othe
deceitfully
,
or
craftelie
couuert
with
words
,
where
by
the
subiects
may
with
draw
them selfs
from
the
fidelitie
towards
their
Prince
or
attempt
what
so
euer
thing
against
him
,
vnder
what
so
euer
pretext
,
they
should
be
accompted
as
rebelles
,
lacking
reithe●
occasion
,
then
an
euill
mynd
.
And
for
that
same
cause
it
is
not
law
fall
to
put
the
reason
in
the
othe
,
that
he
,
who
sweareth
,
may
haue
no
cloake
nor
excuse
to
break
his
othe
:
E●t
enim
forme
fidelitatis
actus
legitimus
conditionem
non
recipiens
.
when
the
othe
of
fidelitie
is
made
to
him
who
is
onely
lands
lord
and
not
soueraigne
,
the
vassall
puteth
no
condition
although
he
put
an
exception
of
the
Emprour
or
King
,
as
may
be
seene
in
this
forme
.
Ego
Titius
iuro
super
haec
sancta
E●angelia
,
quod
ab
hac
hora
in
antea
vsque
ad
vltimum
diem
vitae
meae
,
ero
fidelis
tibi
Ca●o
Domino
contra
omnem
hominem
,
excepto
Imperatore
vel
Rege
.
But
the
forme
of
fidelitie
and
othe
made
to
●he
Emprour
or
King
,
or
any
other
soue●aigne
Prince
,
should
be
sett
downe
in
most
●imple
plaine
and
cleere
words
,
without
any
●eceit
fraud
orguyll
.
For
as
the
Kinges
Em●ire
is
free
and
absolute
,
subiect
to
no
other
,
●
the
othe
of
the
subiects
should
be
●ltoge●er
simple
and
without
any
restriction
.
I
●ay
all
good
and
true
subiects
,
not
onely
for
their
duetie
,
but
also
for
their
conscienc●
cause
,
compare
this
with
our
new
reformed
or
reither
deformed
forme
of
othe
,
and
consider
if
it
tasted
not
of
rebellion
and
conspiracie
against
the
law●ull
Prince
,
and
if
this
be
not
a
beginning
and
foundament
to
bring
in
the
Swisers
common
wealth
where
the
soueraigne
magistrate
at
the
yeares
end
is
answearable
to
the
people
,
by
whome
he
is
chosen
.
Doubtles
these
craftesmen
haue
had
before
their
eies
Bruti
vindicias
,
Buchanans
precepts
,
Knoxes
blasts
of
the
trompette
of
sedition
,
Goodmans
discours
how
superior
powers
ought
to
be
obeyed
of
their
subiects
▪
Knoxe
histories
of
treasons
&c.
or
els
the
King
of
Poles
othe
,
Si
sacramentum
violauer●
nullam
nobis
regni
incolae
obedientiam
praestar●
debebunt
.
the
Poloniens
may
desyre
of
their
future
Prince
,
what
othe
they
please
seing
he
is
at
their
election
and
choise
.
But
to
prescribe
to
your selues
,
how
and
what
ye
will
sweare
to
your
Prince
,
to
whome
ye
,
your
fathers
and
posteritie
ar
allreddie
obliged
whether
ye
will
or
not
,
I
know
not
how
ye
can
be
excused
except
ye
ministers
esteeme
your selues
in
the
same
rank
with
the
ancien●
arrogant
Aragoniens
,
who
in
reception
o●
their
king
were
wount
to
say
in
this
maner
Nos
,
qui
valemos
tanto
comme
vos
,
y
podem●
m●s
que
vos
,
vos
elegimos
Re
,
con
estas
&
estas
conditiones
intra
vos
y
nos
,
vn
que
manda
mas
,
que
vos
.
We
,
who
ar
as
good
as
ye
,
and
may
more
then
ye
,
choose
you
our
king
,
with
sic
and
sic
conditiones
betwixt
you
and
vs
that
one
may
commande
more
then
ye
▪
wold
ye
not
think
your selues
braue
men
,
if
ye
might
truely
vse
●ic
speech
to
his
Maiestie
.
But
ye
do
meikill
●orse
,
seing
in
eff●ct
ye
gif
him
no
thing
but
assistence
to
do
you
seruice
,
without
any
further
honour
or
profit
.
A
great
seruant
truely
,
if
ye
were
wo●●hie
m●isters
.
Certainly
if
the
King
were
at
your
choise
(
as
God
forbid
he
were
)
ye
could
gif
him
no
lesse
then
ye
do
here
by
your
othe
:
yea
what
lesse
can
ye
gif
to
your
moderator
of
one
day
,
then
defend
his
persone
and
authoritie
,
as
long
as
he
is
in
charge
,
for
ye
do
nothing
therein
,
but
mainteine
your selues
.
The
Mu●iners
in
the
warres
offer
no
lesse
to
their
new
choisen
head
,
not
for
his
cause
,
but
for
their
owne
.
I
am
assured
that
there
is
no
people
in
the
worlde
so
seditiouse
or
rebelle
,
but
wold
bestow
more
vpon
their
Prince
o●
head
whatso
euer
,
then
ye
b●stow
here
vpon
his
Maiestie
:
In
promptu
ratio
est
,
his
Maiesties
forces
can
not
agree
with
your
folies
.
But
ye
will
say
perhapes
that
the
Kinges
Maiestie
doeth
acknowledge
him self
vestrae
voluntatis
imo
tyrannidis
ministri
,
to
trouble
and
persecute
all
theis
that
will
not
obey
you
,
albeit
it
were
bothe
against
his
Maiesties
honour
and
state
.
Which
I
think
his
Maiestie
will
suffer
no
longer
to
be
donne
,
because
of
the
danger
that
may
eusue
there
vpon
.
For
what
can
be
more
perniciouse
within
a
realme
,
where
obedience
and
modestie
ar
moste
necessarie
,
then
to
suffer
the
subiects
to
be
corrupted
either
by
monopoles
or
periuries
or
damnable
opinions
tending
to
a
new
forme
of
gouerment
and
state
?
or
to
permitt
a
●orme
of
common
wealth
within
an
other
,
as
a
cotadaill
or
fortresse
within
a
towne
,
to
hold
the
Prince
and
all
his
subiects
bound
slaues
to
yow
.
A
thing
,
I
know
not
whether
more
dishonorable
to
the
Prince
,
or
more
dangerouse
.
I
say
onely
that
the
mo●e
his
Maiestie
beareth
with
you
the
more
ye
at
presumptiouse
and
the
reddier
to
attempt
some
new
interprise
.
Ye
contented
your selues
before
to
raill
against
the
state
and
gouerment
of
Scotland
;
now
,
as
if
your
iurisdiction
were
amplified
with
his
Maiesties
empire
,
ye
ar
entred
in
England
,
all
Britaine
is
fallen
to
your
lot
:
ye
will
comptroll
all
mens
actions
there
,
ye
will
assist
your
brethren
of
that
nation
,
defend
them
,
their
doctrine
and
discipline
according
to
your
reformed
ministeriall
othe
,
for
why
should
any
man
be
so
bolde
as
to
touch
in
any
wise
your
inheritance
?
or
medle
with
your
affaires
?
or
command
within
your
iurisdiction
?
A
surplice
,
a
square
cappe
,
or
a
Bishoppe
may
serue
you
for
a
most
iust
reason
to
trouble
all
,
so
liuely
is
your
faith
finding
Idolatrie
in
any
thing
that
mislyketh
your
humour
.
O
tribus
Anticris
caput
ins●nabile
.
It
were
best
his
Maiestie
sent
you
to
the
vnfound
lands
,
where
there
is
no
man
yet
,
that
ye
might
forme
a
common
wealth
at
your
owne
fantasie
without
other
mens
griefe
or
trouble
.
Certainely
if
ye
were
sent
ouer
sea
fiue
,
or
sixe
yeares
to
seek
your
meate
as
others
haue
donne
,
ye
wold
perchance
be
more
modest
,
and
vnderstand
how
bontifull
and
patient
his
Maiestie
is
suffering
you
so
long
to
reigne
and
raill
without
ryme
or
reason
:
Coge●is
aliquando
per
vestrum
scelus
iracunda
louem
sumere
sulmina
.
But
ye
the
Saincts
of
God
,
his
elected
people
,
assured
inheritance
,
indued
with
only
faith
voide
of
all
good
workes
,
destitute
of
free
will
,
and
yet
willfull
in
all
your
opinions
,
predestinated
to
the
heauens
how
so
euer
emptie
of
honestie
,
and
covered
with
vice
,
ye
zealouse
brethren
,
I
say
,
ar
aboue
all
Kinges
and
Princes
,
they
at
but
your
officers
,
executers
of
your
good
pleasiurs
and
will
:
otherwise
to
no
purpo●
in
this
world
.
To
conclude
this
matter
I
will
tell
you
the
Catholik
opinion
herein
,
which
is
this
.
As
we
ar
wholly
and
without
any
exception
obliged
to
God
in
matters
of
faith
and
conscience
,
so
at
we
absolutly
and
without
any
exception
or
restriction
obliged
&
bound
to
our
Prince
with
all
fidelitie
and
obedience
in
temporall
affaires
,
that
is
in
matters
nether
repugnant
to
God
nor
good
reason
,
how
soeuer
they
be
to
our
dommage
and
hurt
in
worldly
thinges
,
or
to
out
paines
and
against
our
repose
.
There
is
no
reason
,
why
the
foote
should
refuse
to
trauaill
▪
when
the
head
haue
a
doe
,
how
hote
that
euer
it
be
:
wearinesse
can
serue
for
no
excuse
:
at
the
nodde
of
the
head
,
the
rest
of
the
membres
should
be
reddie
:
at
sic
tymes
excuses
ar
but
disguised
rebellions
:
the
want
of
commodities
maketh
the
way
more
difficill
but
not
impossible
.
To
the
foote
thes
thinges
may
seeme
very
hard
and
iniust
,
because
of
the
great
paines
and
many
incommodities
it
must
suffer
,
oftentymes
not
knowing
the
reason
why
,
except
that
it
is
a
member
subiect
to
the
head
,
and
therefor
obliged
to
obey
according
to
the
office
and
due
function
of
a
member
,
as
it
shall
please
the
head
to
command
.
Wold
ye
that
men
should
goe
as
Iugling
tumblers
doe
,
their
feete
vp
,
and
their
head
downe
?
ye
haue
some
reason
so
●o
desyre
in
maters
of
state
(
although
there
be
no
reason
,
why
it
should
be
graunted
to
you
)
seing
by
that
meanes
sundry
of
you
myght
hope
for
the
highest
place
,
as
being
in
all
degrees
the
very
dregges
of
the
people
,
yet
being
promoted
without
order
or
extraordinairely
(
for
all
is
one
in
your
personnes
)
ye
at
found
worthie
of
the
charge
ye
haue
,
ye
become
so
perfect
raillers
:
but
how
proper
ye
be
to
gouuerne
Kinges
and
realme
(
which
ye
will
to
●●pend
vpon
you
in
maters
of
greatest
consequence
)
I
leaue
the
iudgement
to
others
;
and
principallie
when
it
is
question
of
your
zealouse
brethren
,
who
ordinairely
ar
caried
away
rather
by
passion
and
opinion
,
th●n
guided
by
disc●eti●n
and
wisdome
:
where
vpon
ar
founded
an
infnite
nomber
of
rash
iudgements
that
they
haue
made
vpon
other
mens
actio●s
.
I
think
it
not
needfull
that
I
specifie
any
▪
the
ex●mples
being
so
frequent●
and
common
.
A
n●w
sorte
of
tyrannie
me●kill
to
be
lamented
▪
if
we
●ere
not
oppressed
with
a
mor●
grieuouse
,
●her
by
it
is
fre●
to
no
man
to
vse
his
naturall
aire
and
inioye
▪
the
sight
of
his
friends
and
kinnesmen
,
except
●e
sweare
him
▪
self
your
slaue
,
foreswearing
bothe
God
and
Prince
for
a
reformed
folie
:
Ouer
high
a
price
truely
▪
and
ouer
great
subiection
,
for
the
small
reward
that
any
man
can
look
for
at
your-hand
.
What
so
euer
banishment
were
more
to
be
desyred
,
then
that
dwelling
at
home
:
for
accepting
that
condit●on
,
men
incu●reth
the
danger
of
double
treason
,
diuine
and
humaine
,
which
being
donne
,
they
were
vnworthie
not
onely
to
be
esteemed
his
Maiesti●s
subiects
,
but
to
●e
suffered
to
liue
vpon
the
earth
,
if
that
come
of
their
proper
consent
and
desyre
.
And
what
fidelitie
,
I
pray
you
,
can
his
Maiestie
look
for
of
you
,
who
requires
of
other
men
sic
othes
as
cutt
away
all
assurance
of
fidelitie
towards
the
Prince
?
ye
pre●erting
your
vaine
opinions
(
that
I
say
nothing
more
displeasant
)
to
the
whol
antiquitie
,
yea
to
all
ages
passed
and
present
,
in
maters
of
religion
,
and
your
iudgement
to
all
magistrates
of
what
so
euer
authoritie
or
experience
in
maters
of
state
,
and
your
interprises
to
peace
and
quyetnesse
,
ar
good
Christians
and
true
subiects
,
well
at
your
case
in
honour
and
Authori●ie
,
although
the
greatest
part
of
you
be
the
first
honest
men
of
your
race
,
or
rather
the
worst
that
euer
was
of
your
race
,
shewing
the
common
say
to
be
very
true
.
Asperius
nihib
est
humili
cum
surgit
in
altum
,
●et
a
beggar
on
horseback
and
he
will
ride
●
gallop
.
But
peiceable
men
,
who
haue
not
that
turbulent
presomptious
spirite
,
because
they
prefer
the
authoritie
of
the
vniuersall
ki●k
,
and
iudgement
of
the
ancient
pastours
and
Ca●holik
consent
to
their
priuat
and
particula●e
opinion
,
respecting
the
magistrates
as
Gods
officers
and
law●ull
instruments
,
they
at
Idolaters
,
papists
,
traitours
to
his
Maiestie
enemies
to
the
common
wealth
,
excommunicat
incontinent
▪
put
to
the
horne
▪
their
goods
confiscated
,
them selues
banished
out
of
the
countrey
:
what
rank
or
qualitie
that
euer
they
be
of
,
they
ar
not
worthie
to
be
faluted
by
the
worst
rascal
fellow
of
your
sessions
although
they
be
composed
ordinairely
of
the
very
sinke
of
the
people
.
But
honest
men
must
take
patience
,
seing
ye
gif
so
litill
reuerence
to
them
,
to
w●ome
ye
ar
more
obliged
6.
where
I
will
no●e
a
thing
very
remarcable
,
that
neither
riches
,
good
traict●ment
,
dignities
,
nor
honours
can
mak
you
quyet
and
peaceable
men
;
neither
iniuries
,
indignities
,
banishment
,
losse
of
goods
nor
freinds
can
moue
the
Catholiks
to
leaue
their
duetie
towards
the
Prince
:
which
I
doubt
not
but
his
Maiestie
some
day
will
consider
when
it
shall
please
God
to
haue
pitie
of
our
mise●ies
.
Abyding
which
tyme
,
I
pray
you
all
good
and
Godly
Catholiks
(
s●sfer
me
good
sites
to
turne
my
speeche
a
litill
to
them
)
to
behaue
your selues
towards
his
Maiestie
with
due
obedience
and
modestie
,
se●king
no
pre●●xt
no●
excuse
to
withdraw
your selues
:
suffering
paciently
persecutions
if
any
be
.
Mixe
no
worldly
respectes
with
heauenly
bl●slinges
,
God
is
highly
offended
when
we
mak●
to
our
particulare
passions
a
cloake
of
his
name
,
his
honour
and
our
affaires
ar
not
of
lyk
rank
,
they
should
not
be
mingled
together
▪
If
any
harme
cometh
to
you
in
his
seruice
,
your
reward
wil
be
th●
greater
,
soing
ye
haue
●r●uailled
for
his
glorie
,
and
haue
stand
stoutly
to
his
ryght
,
vnder
whose
banner
to
die
,
is
to
triomphe
for
euer
:
feare
no
damnage
▪
not
losse
,
ye
haue
a
most
sure
promise
of
a
honderdfold
profit
&
the
lyfe
eternall
.
we
should
bestow
our
goodes
w●llingly
in
his
seruice
who
rccompenseth
so
liberally
.
The
lesse
of
our
priuat
affections
we
midle
here
in
,
the
better
is
outs
,
the
more
ample
shal
be
our
lords
goodnes
towards
vs
:
because
his
glorie
the
more
cleerly
doeth
shine
,
when
it
is
allone
.
But
when
his
veritie
is
blamed
for
our
misbehauiour
,
what
can
we
look
for
at
his
hands
,
but
for
a
iust
punition
for
abusing
his
authoritie
and
name
?
It
were
very
hard
to
suffer
sundry
thinges
that
occurre
in
thes
spirituall
wat●es
,
if
our
captaine
were
not
inuincible
,
and
we
assured
how
long
we
stand
with
him
.
We
lack
no
good
examples
bothe
of
head
and
membres
.
We
can
not
be
first
in
this
batai●l
where
so
many
thowsands
lossing
the
earth
haue
conquised
the
heauens
▪
there
ar
passed
before
vs
infinite
nomber
of
champions
off
all
dignities
ages
and
qualities
,
Kinges
,
Quyenes
,
nobles
&
meane
men
,
learned
and
ignorant
,
men
,
wemen
,
ould
men
and
babes
,
poore
and
riche
,
who
haue
borne
armour
vnder
this
standart
,
&
after
the
losse
of
all
worldly
goods
haue
shead
their
bloode
with
ioy
to
their
eternall
blesse
,
because
they
had
only
Goddes
glorie
before
their
eyes
,
which
principally
in
this
tyme
so
dangerous
we
should
do
,
that
our
vice
be
not
obiected
to
the
Catholik
religion
,
as
if
our
faul●es
came
of
that
which
we
professe
,
and
not
of
ou●
selues
;
to
which
sorte
of
calumnies
and
craftie
accusations
,
our
aduersaries
haue
ost
recourse
,
taking
arguments
from
ou●
liues
and
behauiour
,
which
they
can
not
haue
frome
our
religion
.
We
should
not
mixe
the
religion
with
matters
of
state
,
they
apperteine
to
diuerse
magistrates
;
God
will
haue
vs
here
obedient
to
bothe
,
because
they
a●
his
lieutenants
,
established
in
his
name
and
authoritie
we
should
not
serue
our
selues
with
the
command
of
the
one
,
to
disobey
the
other
in
his
charge
.
Who
so
euer
hender
any
of
the
two
,
can
not
serue
him
s●lfe
with
excuse
of
the
other
:
we
must
follow
bothe
their
commands
according
to
their
place
&
rank
:
they
at
ordained
by
God
to
keepe
one
another
,
and
not
to
distroy
each
other
.
If
standing
to
the
true
saith
,
to
the
defence
of
our
soueraigne
,
we
be
persecuted
either
in
lyf
body
or
goods
,
after
the
bataill
,
we
shal
be
restored
to
ou●
owne
,
or
to
meikill
better
.
he
who
receaueth
a
prophete
in
name
of
a
prophete
,
shall
receaue
the
reward
of
a
prophete
sufficiat
vobis
gratia
mea
:
the
more
we
loosse
here
,
the
more
we
shall
winne
in
heauen
.
Seing
this
patience
sure
I
am
that
the
Kinges
Maiestie
will
not
be
so
farre
offend●d
,
when
he
shall
vnderstand
that
thereis
onely
conscience
that
do
stoppe
you
to
condescend
to
many
thinges
,
and
no
rebellion
nor
contempt
of
his
lawes
,
or
ordainances
:
for
in
that
case
ye
prefer
onely
God
to
him
,
and
that
because
your
fi●st
obligation
moueth
you
thereto
.
Byding
in
this
resolution
,
the
victorie
shal
be
yours
,
and
ye
shall
obteine
,
if
not
mans
,
at
lest
Goddes
fauour
,
otherwise
ye
may
look
to
loosse
bothe
:
further
we
may
hope
that
his
Maiestie
being
better
informed
of
the
matter
,
wil
be
more
gra●ious
to
his
true
and
humble
subi●cts
then
to
punish
them
by
death
,
banishment
or
priuation
of
their
goods
in
fauour
of
the
ministers
who
byding
at
the
ground●s
of
their
doctrine
can
neither
be
good
Christians
nor
true
subiects
as
we
haue
sha●●
alreddie
,
and
shall
sh●w
more
euiden●ly
here
after
if
this
be
not
thought
sufficient
.
Yet
if
our
sinn●s
be
so
great
that
God
will
haue
vs
punis●ed
with
all
tigour
and
extremitie
in
this
present
lyf
,
lat
vs
receaue
the
same
not
onely
with
patience
because
we
haue
deserued
meikill
more
,
but
also
with
gladnesse
and
thankes
giuing
as
comming
o●
his
hand
,
who
will
gif
vs
the
strenght
to
beare
it
,
seing
that
his
quarrell
is
mixed
with
our
paines
,
lat
vs
crye
for
his
helpe
▪
and
succo●re
who
hath
the
heartes
of
Princes
in
his
hand
,
that
he
may
dispense
their
actions
to
his
glorie
,
to
their
and
our
saluation
and
publik
peace
and
quietnesse
.
how
that
shal
be
donne
,
we
must
leaue
it
to
his
infinitie
wisdome
and
prouidence
hauing
alwaies
in
our
heartes
and
mouthes
,
thy
will
be
donne
in
earth
as
it
is
in
heauen
.
Now
to
retourne
to
you
againe
(
good
sites
)
it
is
not
onely
very
dangerouse
,
but
also
farre
against
the
duetie
of
a
good
Christian
man
to
sweare
according
to
your
desyre
,
os
reither
command
and
force
,
to
witt
that
they
abhorre
and
detest
all
contrario●●
religion
and
doctrine
(
to
your
reformation
)
but
cheiflie
all
kynd
of
papistrie
in
generall
and
particulere
heades
▪
Because
the
most
chief
heads
of
the
Catholik
Apostolik
and
Romane
doctrine
(
w●ich
ye
of
your
great
humanitie
and
courtesie
doe
call
papistrie
at
all
occasions
and
propos
)
a●
conteined
in
the
symbol
of
faith
m●de
by
the
Apostles
,
if
ye
haue
any
thing
to
say
there
to
ye
may
.
But
as
to
vs
,
as
we
beleef
in
the
symbol
that
there
is
one
God
omnipotente
Fat●er
,
Sonne
,
&
holie
Ghost
,
w●o
hath
created
,
redeemed
,
&
sanctified
vs
by
his
infinite
goodnes
&
mercy
;
so
do
we
beleef
that
there
is
one
holie
Catholik
kirk
,
by
whose
mouth
we
ar
instructed
in
all
theis
thinges
,
that
we
should
beleef
,
or
do
;
because
shee
is
the
spouse
and
mysticall
body
of
Iesus
Christ
,
of
whome
as
of
hir
head
shee
hath
grace
and
power
,
and
we
command
to
obey
.
Theis
at
the
generall
heades
of
that
which
ye
call
papistrie
(
seing
it
pleased
you
so
to
terme
it
)
where
vpon
ar
biulded
all
particuler
heades
professed
by
the
same
kirk
,
and
all
hi●
children
remaning
in
due
obedience
within
hi●
bosome
.
To
detest
and
abhorre
theis
thinges
,
ye
may
easely
iudge
your selues
(
if
passion
command
not
aboue
your
●ittes
)
how
hard
a
thing
it
wil●
be
to
●any
Christian
man
,
w●o
hath
Christs
spouse
in
good
estimation
and
as
it
becometh
him
to
haue
hi●
who
is
guided
with
so
nobell
a
head
:
But
ye
will
say
that
ye
condemne
not
that
which
is
good
,
but
our
errours
:
I
answeare
to
you
in
one
word
,
so
farre
as
I
can
see
ye
haue
as
litell
iudgement
to
discerne
vpon
an
errour
,
as
ye
haue
power
to
condemne
it
.
But
this
doth
require
a
more
ample
discours
.
Moreouer
to
haue
the
Catholik
religion
in
greater
horrour
and
detestation
then
te
Iewdaisme
,
Turcisme
,
heresie
,
or
at
heisme
I
can
not
think
that
it
cometh
of
a
good
and
holie
Iuge
saecrific●um
the
perpetuall
sacrifice
which
onely
is
accep●able
and
pleasant
to
God
:
&
therefore
the
Antichrist
will
labour
to
tak
it
away
:
where
in
ye
trauell
as
ye
can
.
The
pape
mainteineth
the
religion
of
his
forfathers
,
for
he
cond●mneth
all
thing
as
errour
that
is
contrarie
to
the
doctrine
of
the
primitiue
kirk
and
venerable
an●iquitie
;
because
Iesus
Christ
being
the
veri●ie
it self
,
the
religion
founded
vpon
him
,
and
published
by
his
deare
spouse
at
his
command
,
can
neither
be
variable
nor
false
.
the
Antichrist
shall
mispryce
the
religion
of
his
fathers
wherein
ye
imitat
him
perfectly
well
.
The
pape
sitteth
at
Rome
and
hath
so
donne
thes
many
ages
.
The
Antichrist
should
sit
at
Ierusalem
.
The
Pape
adoreth
with
all
humilitie
and
reuerence
the
Trinitie
,
teacheth
and
commandeth
all
true
Christians
to
doo
the
same
.
The
Antichrist
openeth
his
mouth
with
all
sorte
of
blasphemie
against
the
holie
Triniti●
.
The
Pape
●alleth
him self
Seruu●
seruorum
Dei
,
acknowledging
that
the
honour
he
receaueth
of
men
,
is
because
of
his
office
that
he
hath
of
God
,
and
that
he
is
institute
Pastour
here
in
earth
to
serue
the
wholl
flock
of
Iesus
Christ
out
lord
whose
seruant
he
is
and
chief
minister
:
And
therefor
before
all
mortall
men
in
dignitie
seing
he
representeth
Christ
our
soueraigne
Lord
,
yet
subiect
to
serue
all
men
,
helpe
and
assist
them
because
of
his
office
and
charge
,
certainely
the
lest
of
the
realme
is
to
be
prefered
to
the
greatest
,
how
long
he
represented
the
Kinges
Maiesties
personne
.
The
Antic●rist
shall
call
him self
God
.
There
hath
beene
two
hundred
and
thirtie
Papes
and
more
:
there
should
be
but
one
Antichrist
contrarie
to
Christ
in
all
thinges
:
for
we
speak
here
of
the
great
Antichrist
.
The
religion
professed
by
the
Pape
hath
dured
(
with
your
owm
prophetes
confessions
)
more
than
twalf
hundred
year●s
:
the
religion
or
rather
impietie
of
the
Antichrist
should
dure
short
space
,
as
he
him selfe
.
The
Antichrist
should
be
an
Apostate
&
go
out
of
the
kirk
of
God
,
where
by
that
his
wickednes
may
be
the
greater
being
ioyned
with
rebellion
▪
The
Pape
remaineth
yet
still
in
the
house
of
God
.
There
hath
beene
great
number
of
heresies
&
heretikes
during
theis
1600.
yeares
that
we
haue
hade
so
many
Papes
.
But
the
Antichrist
should
be
the
last
of
the
heretiks
,
because
all
wickednesse
should
be
compleit
in
him
,
all
heretiks
seruing
to
him
as
foreriders
,
where
of
Simon
Magus
was
the
first
a
detestable
magicien
and
a
traiterous
apostate
,
who
not
withstanding
hath
found
ouer
many
companions
to
follow
him
.
Iesus
Christ
should
slay
the
Antichrist
with
the
spirite
of
his
mouth
,
that
is
,
as
ye
interprete
it
,
with
the
preaching
of
the
Euangell
,
that
hath
he
never
donne
to
any
Pape
,
albeit
ye
haue
imaginated
to
your selfs
,
that
ye
haue
slaine
the
Pape
by
your
preachinges
,
o●
rather
taillinges
,
the
Pape
never
hath
had
one
houres
sicknes
for
all
your
crying
;
assure
your selues
that
his
infirmities
cometh
of
other
causes
.
Luther
in
spirite
of
prophicie
as
he
thought
made
this
most
notable
verse
Pestis
eram
viuus
,
moriens
tu●
mors
ero
Papa
:
he
knew
very
well
the
first
part
to
be
true
,
and
therefore
myght
say
it
confidently
,
the
last
part
was
lyk
the
authour
,
false
and
vntrue
,
he
being
deade
and
his
doctrine
bothe
,
it
being
changed
partly
by
him self
during
his
lyf
,
partly
by
his
disciples
and
followers
after
his
deathe
,
where
as
the
Papes
Authoritie
,
because
it
is
founded
vpon
God
,
doth
remaine
,
&
shall
remaine
till
the
worlds
end
.
The
Antichrist
should
oppose
him self
to
our
lord
in
all
thinges
and
abolish
his
name
and
honour
so
farre
as
he
can
:
for
so
the
name
of
Antichrist
doth
signifie
.
The
Pape
doeth
the
plaine
contrarie
.
The
Antichrist
should
come
after
Gog
&
Magog
:
howbeit
that
the
Papes
hath
beene
so
many
ages
,
yet
know
we
not
,
what
Gog
and
Magog
ar
,
nor
what
place
of
the
world
they
dwell
in
.
The
Pape
honoreth
the
Sainctes
as
Gods
vndoubted
friends
and
desyreth
them
to
pray
for
him
.
Where
vpon
maliciously
ye
preach
to
the
people
that
we
gif
Christs
honour
to
the
Saincts
&
yet
we
acknowledge
them
as
seruants
onely
,
who
hath
credit
to
pray
and
not
to
command
.
The
Antichrist
should
haue
in
his
name
the
number
of
666.
to
find
this
number
your
brethren
,
further
different
frome
you
in
doctrine
and
discipline
then
in
place
or
habites
,
haue
taken
great
paines
tourning
the
Papes
names
,
but
all
in
vaine
,
it
could
not
be
found
the
holie
spirite
hauing
so
prouided
against
your
calumnies
.
Many
thousands
ar
saued
in
the
Catholik
kirk
,
which
ye
call
the
papist
kirk
,
for
otherwise
all
your
forfathers
ar
condemned
,
yea
all
the
ancient
fathers
,
martyres
,
and
doctours
of
the
kirk
,
seing
that
they
haue
acknowledged
the
pape
for
their
superior
,
and
chief
vicare
to
Iesus
Christ
,
and
a
great
part
of
you
were
baptised
by
the
membres
of
the
Antichrist
,
in
whose
kirk
no
man
can
be
saued
.
The
Pape
armeth
him self
&
al
men
so
far
as
he
can
for
Iesus
Christ
,
with
reasons
,
scriptures
,
generall
counceilles
,
authorities
of
fathers
,
exemples
of
martyres
,
consentement
of
the
wholl
Catholik
kirk
of
all
ages
.
The
Antichrist
shall
arme
him selfe
and
his
followers
with
force
and
violence
against
Iesus
Christ
.
The
Pape
conserueth
,
and
haue
conserued
at
all
tymes
the
scriptures
:
The
Antichrist
if
he
do
according
to
his
name
and
profession
,
should
destroy
the
scriptures
.
The
Pape
hateth
and
condemneth
all
sort
of
rebellions
and
nouelties
in
religion
:
The
Antichrist
should
embrace
them
as
most
proper
&
conuenient
instruments
for
his
auancement
of
perdition
.
The
Pape
came
so
quietly
,
and
peaceablye
(
yea
according
to
your
owen
●ellowes
saying
)
that
ye
can
not
yet
goodly-tell
,
when
,
or
how
he
first
entred
in
the
kirk
,
ye
ar
so
troubled
to
tell
well
your
new
forged
fable
.
The
Antichrist
should
come
with
sic
trouble
and
mischief
as
neuer
was
since
the
beginning
of
the
world
,
where
in
he
shal
be
more
lyk
to
you
,
then
to
the
Pape
,
seing
we
can
well
tell
when
ye
came
,
and
may
yet
shew
ouer
euident
markes
of
your
vnquiet
intré
.
And
to
be
short
the
Antichrist
should
be
filius
perditioni●
the
sonne
of
perdition
,
chief
instrument
of
satan
,
that
is
,
so
possessed
and
assisted
with
the
deuill
,
that
he
shall
do
all
thinges
in
the
deuils
power
and
for
his
cause
,
and
shal
be
so
perfect
and
accomplished
(
if
I
should
so
say
)
in
all
vice
and
iniquitie
,
that
no
man
can
equall
him
,
meikilles
to
surpasse
him
,
and
principallie
in
pryde
,
as
our
maister
and
lord
Iesus
Christ
did
excell
in
all
vertue
,
&
chiefly
in
humilitie
discite
à
me
,
quia
mitis
sum
&
hu●●lis
corde
.
Wherefor
not
without
reason
sundry
learned
men
haue
repported
the
seuen
montains
to
the
seuen
deedly
sinnes
which
shal
be
in
the
Antechrist
in
most
high
degree
that
he
may
iustly
answeare
to
his
name
,
The
Pape
can
no
wayes
be
thought
so
wicked
:
I
call
to
witnes
all
sort
of
Protestantes
of
what
so
euer
nation
,
saction
,
or
opinion
who
haue
beene
at
Rome
before
or
since
the
Iubile
,
and
haue
seene
the
Pape
who
now
sitteth
Clement
the
eight
a
man
worthie
of
that
name
,
if
any
of
them
may
say
in
his
conscience
,
that
he
is
so
wicked
and
desperate
a
man
,
as
the
Antichrist
is
described
to
be
in
the
scriptures
.
Sure
I
am
that
there
is
none
of
them
so
far
drounken
in
the
ministeriall
humour
,
that
will
say
so
,
if
he
speak
according
to
that
he
hath
seene
.
It
is
so
far
from
that
the
Pape
can
be
the
Antichrist
that
his
most
excellente
Maiestie
a
Prince
of
rare
iudgement
and
learning
,
doth
acknowledge
the
Pape
to
be
a
temporall
Prince
,
to
whom
he
is
obliged
and
to
whome
in
all
good
offices
he
wil
be
correspondent
.
●hat
wordes
may
be
said
to
your
opinion
who
maketh
our
Kinge
to
haue
obligation
from
,
and
commerce
with
the
Antichrist
?
I
may
say
with
your
pardon
and
licence
sessionall
,
that
he
is
a
better
&
more
honest
man
,
then
any
ministers
that
either
is
or
euer
was
in
Scotland
without
exception
of
your
chief
pontifs
first
or
last
,
Iohn
or
Robert
.
I
am
assured
that
he
who
knoweth
the
Pape
an●
your
ministers
will
say
the
same
,
principally
if
it
were
question
of
humilitie
and
humanitie
:
and
if
I
be
put
to
my
proues
,
I
hope
easely
to
discharge
my selfe
litill
to
you●
honours
.
If
this
be
true
as
it
is
most
certaine
why
should
any
man
sweare
the
Pape
to
be
the
Antichrist
,
that
is
the
most
wicked
and
detestable
man
that
euer
was
,
is
,
or
shal
be
,
seing
that
there
is
none
of
your
companie
how
godly
brethren
that
euer
ye
be
,
but
i●
meikill
worse
,
then
he
?
or
if
they
sweare
a
thing
so
farre
out
of
all
reason
and
verit●e
as
thinking
it
true
,
why
should
they
follow
or
acknowledge
you
for
true
and
lawfull
pastours
sent
by
God
to
reforme
the
world
,
if
ye
be
worse
then
the
Antichrist
,
who
must
be
the
most
detestable
and
abominable
instrument
that
euer
Satan
hath
employed
?
If
ye
say
that
it
is
but
simulation
and
hypocrisie
in
the
P●pe
to
deceaue
men
,
I
answeare
you
,
that
if
we
graunt
your
foolish
affirmation
,
ye
must
also
graunt
to
vs
that
the
deuill
hath
donne
more
good
with
the
Pape
,
&
his
hypocrisie
,
pretended
,
or
fained
holinesse
,
then
euer
the
holie
spi●ite
,
which
is
in
you
,
I
say
,
could
do
by
●ou
and
your
pietie
and
reformed
Godlinesse
:
your
actions
may
beare
witnes
if
I
lie
.
O
Sanctas
gentes
quibus
ha●
●●s●untur
in
●ortis
minima
.
Whose
best
workes
a●
so
litill
worthe
.
Certainely
ye
ar
very
greatly
obliged
to
theis
,
who
will
not
sweare
a
thing
so
preiudiciable
to
your
honour
and
reputation
,
which
necessarilie
followed
vpon
your
doctrine
,
if
it
were
once
admitted
.
Truely
I
haue
not
so
hard
opinion
of
you
:
for
notwitstanding
I
esteeme
you
in
all
degrees
farre
inferior
to
the
Pape
:
yet
think
I
not
that
ye
ar
so
low
&
abiect
,
or
so
wicked
and
abominable
as
the
Antichrist
,
meikilles
to
think
you
worse
.
Acknowledge
the
obligation
ye
haue
to
them
,
who
doing
according
to
their
consciences
toward
the
Pape
,
hath
donne
so
meikill
for
your
honour
.
But
ye
will
say
that
ye
ar
not
so
wicked
as
the
Pape
.
I
doubt
not
but
ye
will
winne
your
cause
,
if
it
be
referred
to
your
saying
or
othe
.
If
the
boundes
of
this
epistle
wold
suffer
,
or
if
it
were
my
principall
butte
to
traict
that
matter
,
I
should
mak
a
comparison
betwix
the
Pape
and
you
,
where
I
should
mak
you
ashamed
(
if
ye
haue
any
shame
in
your
forhead
)
of
your selues
,
the
merueillous
difference
being
seene
.
I
maruell
how
a
minister
can
look
to
his
companions
vnlaughen
when
he
seeth
the
people
beleef
a
thing
so
ridiculous
.
And
in
conscience
beleef
ye
that
the
Antichrist
shal
be
a
litill
hypocrite
or
simple
heretik
?
●e
shal
be
more
furiouse
then
any
that
euer
came
to
trouble
the
kirk
.
Because
ye
cannot
shew
that
the
Pape
is
come
with
force
and
violence
,
as
our
Lord
hath
aduertised
vs
he
shall
come
,
ye
wold
mak
the
world
beleeue
that
the
Antichrist
should
come
to
continue
lyk
a
lamb
.
Iesus
Christ
sayeth
the
contrarie
of
him
.
It
wil
be
an
ill
reformed
faith
to
gif
our
lord
the
lie
:
how
can
ye
think
,
that
he
who
shal
be
instructed
and
fullie
inspired
wi●h
the
spirite
of
Satan
,
will
in
any
wise
,
ether
follow
or
conter●ect
our
maister
and
lord
Iesus
Christ
?
ye
deceaue
your selues
and
all
others
,
who
credits
you
if
ye
beleef
so
.
The
heretiks
,
who
ar
onely
his
foreruners
hath
entred
in
the
kirk
of
God
lyk
Woulfes
and
Tigres
,
and
ye
your selues
came
with
so
great
modestie
and
quietnes
,
that
the
earth
did
tremble
and
shake
vnder
your
feete
(
I
know
not
if
it
was
for
gladenesse
of
your
comming
)
so
mightelye
that
the
whole
policie
&
publik
buildings
thr●ugh
out
all
Scotland
did
fall
downe
as
if
it
had
beene
a
generall
earth
quake
.
verelie
according
to
his
nature
and
dignitie
,
he
must
be
more
violent
and
cruell
then
all
the
rest
.
Is
it
possible
that
ye
think
the
Antichrist
will
vse
onely
persuations
,
faire
words
,
&
li●ill
hen
wyles
,
seing
that
ye
vse
all
s●rt
of
violences
and
compulsions
?
he
wil
be
more
cruell
then
ye
in
all
respectes
,
more
craftie
and
more
mightie
:
he
will
bring
with
him
all
mischiefs
that
can
be
inuented
,
&
for
that
cause
God
will
shorten
his
tyme
.
Think
ye
that
that
deuill
(
if
I
●hould
so
say
)
wil
be
lyk
Clemē●
the
8.
Are
ye
so
ignorant
or
so
foolish
?
Truely
Pape
Clement
is
so
wicked
,
that
it
were
better
haue
ten
thowsand
lyk
him
,
then
one
lyk
●ny
of
you
,
and
his
death
more
to
be
sorrowed
than
the
death
of
a
hundred
thousand
of
you
,
howbeit
ye
haue
a
better
opinion
of
your selfs
.
Think
not
also
that
the
modestie
that
is
in
the
Pape
,
cometh
of
any
feare
he
hath
of
you
or
yours
.
Ye
slay
him
euery
yeare
with
your
tounges
,
but
so
softlie
,
that
he
perceaueth
it
no
more
,
then
ye
did
the
first
Papes
entring
.
How
can
ye
beleeue
that
the
Pape
or
Papes
,
ar
,
or
can
be
the
Antichrist
,
seing
they
haue
condemned
all
the
heresies
that
hitherto
hath
risin
against
ether
the
diuinitie
or
humanitie
of
Iesus
Christ
(
as
may
be
proued
by
your
owen
fellowes
)
yea
they
haue
condemned
the
errours
risin
now
of
late
yeares
amonge
your selues
,
as
the
new
heresies
of
Gentilis
,
Stancharus
,
Blandrata
,
and
other
good
disciples
of
Caluin
,
against
the
holie
Trinitie
,
whose
errour
ye
approue
not
although
bred
among
you
.
How
can
it
be
that
they
shal
be
the
Antichrist
,
who
so
stoutly
,
so
constantlie
,
with
so
great
expenses
and
danger
doeth
defend
the
dignitie
of
Iesus
Christ
?
for
they
onely
whome
ye
in
your
reformed
language
call
the
Antichrist
,
hath
holdin
,
approued
,
&
yet
doth
defend
&
approue
,
all
&
wholl
the
generall
councelles
where
Christs
honour
,
authoritie
,
and
diuine
Maiestie
haue
beene
lawfully
defended
and
keeped
:
yet
can
ye
not
shew
any
sic
thing
donne
by
you
,
who
calles
your selues
true
Christians
and
lawfull
pastours
.
What
shall
we
think
of
these
Antichristes
,
&
of
you
zealous
Christians
?
They
keept
the
bible
from
corruption
of
heresies
,
when
ye
could
not
be
found
,
yea
when
none
of
your
reformed
brethren
could
be
seene
,
at
what
tyme
your
inuisibilitie
excused
you
from
sic
charitable
offices
.
It
apperteneth
to
him
onely
whome
ye
call
the
Antichrist
to
defend
Christs
name
,
keepe
the
bible
,
distroy
heresies
,
confute
errours
,
conuert
infideles
,
send
to
all
partes
to
con●ort
the
faithfull
,
to
assure
them
,
who
ar
in
brangle
,
to
reduce
them
,
who
ar
gone
astray
,
and
that
in
Europe
,
Asie
,
and
Afrik
.
Which
is
donne
yet
in
the
new
found
Ils
,
where
there
is
more
Christians
now
,
then
heretikes
in
all
Europe
,
yea
a
great
deal
more
:
O
good
&
diligent
Antichrist
who
onely
hath
watched
&
laboured
in
the
viniard
of
our
Lord
as
it
becometh
a
true
&
faithfull
seruant
.
And
o
ye
wicked
negligent
,
sluggish
&
disloyall
pastours
who
haue
sleeped
like
as
many
Endymious
thes
1500.
years
past
in
some
obscure
caue
,
till
the
moune
of
false
&
foolish
imaginations
haue
wakned
you
,
to
embrace
againe
the
cloudes
of
errour
in
place
of
that
heauenly
Iuno
of
veritie
Haue
we
not
iust
occasion
to
wish
of
God
to
haue
in
your
place
so
good
and
godly
an
Antichrist
?
which
if
we
hade
in
euery
toune
,
we
should
not
now
haue
beene
in
paine
to
refell
your
follies
.
We
may
bouldly
say
that
this
Antichrist
is
meikill
better
reformed
,
then
your
kirk
,
and
lesse
to
be
feared
,
then
your
reformation
.
I
doubt
not
but
ye
wold
here
willingly
answeare
,
that
ye
contribu●e
with
no
lesse
good
will
for
the
diliuerance
of
Geneua
,
which
ye
make
the
people
beleeue
is
besieged
by
the
Duk
of
Sauoye
(
where
I
will
remark
a
great
folie
in
you
to
beleeue
a
thing
so
mani●estly
false
,
&
a
malice
in
them
,
who
haue
abused
so
farre
your
simplicitie
and
rash
crudelitie
)
for
their
reformed
faith
.
I
wold
also
willingly
know
of
you
,
why
your
reformed
charitie
extendeth
it self
onely
to
sic
as
haue
rebelled
against
their
lawfull
Prince
reither
then
to
them
,
who
round
about
you
ar
in
great
need
and
distresse
?
If
ye
did
helpe
your
holie
citie
because
of
their
necessi●ie
,
I
wold
think
it
well
done
,
if
ye
could
do
well
with
out
preiudice
to
your
onely
faith
.
But
to
mainteine
their
rebellion
against
their
iust
and
lawfull
Prince
,
is
but
an
open
and
euident
argument
of
that
which
is
secretly
hid
in
your
breastes
as
we
haue
said
here
before
.
I
was
almost
here
deliberat
to
shew
that
a
great
nomber
of
the
qualities
which
should
be
in
the
Antichrist
may
be
easely
found
in
you
,
as
in
his
sorriders
:
but
I
will
keep
that
to
your
answere
,
if
perchance
ye
persist
in
your
Antichristian
opinion
.
For
then
we
shall
see
God
willing
,
whither
ye
can
better
apply
the
markes
to
the
Pape
,
or
we
to
you
.
8.
Now
to
your
excommunication
,
a
thing
truely
meikill
to
be
wished
of
many
,
and
to
be
embraced
of
all
men
:
for
who
should
not
desyre
to
be
out
of
their
followship
,
who
ar
ioyned
together
by
periuries
,
treason
,
&
errours
?
Honest
true
and
faithfull
men
should
seek
by
all
meanes
to
deliuer
them selues
of
sic
companie
if
either
willingly
,
rashlie
,
or
by
force
they
haue
entred
there
in
.
Yet
lat
vs
see
what
power
ye
haue
to
excommunicate
any
man
.
Onely
true
and
lawfull
pastours
(
which
ye
can
not
be
,
lacking
as
ye
do
,
the
law●ull
vocation
)
haue
power
and
authoritie
to
excommunicate
:
where
vpon
it
followeth
that
ye
haue
no
power
nor
authoritie
at
all
.
we
haue
brought
manv
reasons
in
our
offer
printed
,
why
your
calling
can
not
be
good
,
w●ich
for
the
present
we
will
not
repeate
,
because
your
owen
reformation
will
furnish
vs
good
store
of
reasons
to
proue
the
same
,
which
we
will
employ
here
because
they
ar
your
owen
and
that
most
foundamentall
.
Ye
will
graunt
me
if
I
be
not
deceaued
that
the
office
and
dignitie
of
a
pastour
is
so
great
and
excellent
,
that
it
properly
conuiueth
only
to
Iesus
Christ
,
and
is
communicated
,
to
sic
as
it
pleased
him
to
call
there
to
,
either
by
ordinarie
meanes
,
or
extraordinatiely
that
is
immediatly
by
him self
.
And
for
that
cause
no
man
should
be
so
hardie
or
reither
temerarie
as
to
medle
there
with
of
him self
,
if
he
wold
not
incurre
the
cryme
of
lesmaiestie
diuine
,
in
taking
the
office
of
Iesus
Christ
out
of
his
hand
.
For
this
cause
Luther
,
seing
he
could
not
well
serue
him self
with
the
ordinarie
vocation
of
the
Catholik
kirk
,
where
he
was
nurished
and
brought
vp
,
took
him
to
the
extraordinarie
,
alledging
he
was
sent
immediatly
by
God
to
reforme
the
world
Frome
this
extraordinarie
power
g●fin
to
Luther
,
ye
haue
receaued
your
ordinarie
calling
,
which
I
must
shew
to
be
false
with
most
euident
reasons
,
to
proue
that
ye
haue
no
authoritie
to
excommunicate
any
man
.
Luther
was
sent
(
if
we
will
credit
him
and
you
)
by
God
him self
to
teach
the
trueth
,
the
which
might
serue
vs
for
a
sufficient
warrand
of
his
assured
true
vocation
,
that
the
true
doctrine
he
broght
with
him
,
might
force
vs
to
acknowledge
his
power
.
I
will
for
the
present
(
albeit
against
the
veritie
)
suppose
all
as
true
and
good
,
because
out
of
theis
principels
and
groundes
we
shall
easely
prooue
,
that
ye
haue
no
lawfull
vocation
,
and
consequently
at
no
true
Pastours
,
where
vpon
followeth
the
millitie
of
your
pretended
excommunication
.
Luthers
doctrine
(
say
ye
)
was
true
,
ergo
his
vocation
was
good
,
and
he
a
lawfull
Pastour
.
I
say
on
the
other
syde
(
by
the
maxime
of
your
owen
doctrine
)
if
his
doctrine
w●s
false
his
vocation
was
not
good
,
nor
yours
receaued
frome
him
,
and
consequently
neither
●e
,
nor
ye
lawfull
pastours
:
or
if
your
doctrine
be
false
,
your
vocation
(
if
ye
hade
any
of
him
)
is
loste
and
ye
no
pastours
,
becaus●
the
true
doctrine
onely
(
as
ye
alledge
)
is
the
sure
proofe
of
true
vocation
.
If
Luthers
doctrine
was
true
and
of
the
holie
Spirit
,
doub●les
yours
is
●alse
,
seing
ye
teach
doctrine
not
onely
farre
different
frome
his
doctrine
,
but
also
in
many
heads
plaine
contrarie
as
may
be
easely
shewen
by
bothe
your
writtinges
Heare
,
I
pray
you
what
one
Caluinus
Iudai
Zans
.
In
the
other
part
it
will
not
be
difficill
to
you
to
know
what
Zuinglius
,
Caluin
,
Beza
,
Lauatherus
and
the
rest
of
that
band
haue
written
against
Luther
and
Lutherians
,
and
with
what
dispyte
and
iniuries
they
treate
one
another
,
Scires
●
sanguine
natos
,
which
may
euidently
proue
the
diuersitie
of
their
doctrine
.
If
the
one
haue
the
trueth
,
necessarily
the
other
can
not
haue
it
,
seing
they
agree
not
:
so
if
the
one
haue
the
true
vocation
the
other
can
not
haue
it
,
they
being
of
repugnant
doctrine
.
9.
But
ye
will
say
that
Luther
did
onely
beginne
the
holie
reformation
which
then
was
so
necessarie
in
the
kirk
,
that
God
was
moued
to
send
him
extraordinarily
for
that
cause
:
yet
hade
he
not
the
strength
to
performe
it
,
as
it
was
needfull
;
which
worke
Caluin
with
his
followers
,
but
principally
ye
,
haue
done
by
your
reformation
:
changing
all
thinges
,
that
no
thing
can
be
better
,
tourning
af●irmations
in
to
negations
,
faire
buildings
in
to
kellyards
or
corne
land
,
good
order
in
to
confusion
,
charitie
in
to
particular
profit
,
obed●ence
in
to
rebellion
,
superioritie
in
to
a
foli
she
paritie
,
assu●ance
in
to
mistrust
&c.
because
he
&
ye
haue
bene
most
fullie
instructed
with
the
holie
spirite
.
If
we
receaue
this
for
a
good
answeare
,
we
must
say
that
this
hath
bene
donne
by
a
n●w
commission
that
God
ha●h
gifin
to
Caluin
and
you
,
farre
different
from
the
commission
gifin
to
Luther
and
his
●ollowers
:
for
the
Lutherians
according
to
this
saying
,
hade
only
charge
to
beginne
the
matter
,
and
ye
to
end
it
;
but
beginning
and
ending
should
agree
to gether
,
and
not
like
aegri
somnia
or
worse
.
They
should
agree
I
say
,
if
they
be
of
one
spirite
,
except
they
come
of
that
spirite
,
who
neuer
yet
could
agree
with
him selfe
.
The
holie
spirite
who
is
the
sp●●ite
of
vnion
and
concorde
could
not
haue
condemned
by
your
mouth
,
which
he
hath
approued
by
Luthers
or
Lutherians
mouthes
▪
I
doubt
not
but
ye
trust
al
that
ye
haue
the
holie
spirite
,
yet
the
diuersitie
of
your
opinions
assure
me
the
contrarie
,
seing
that
the
spirit
,
who
approueth
and
authoriseth
the
one
and
his
doctrine
,
condemneth
and
dischargeth
the
others
and
their
doctrin
.
If
ye
say
that
the
errours
hade
takin
so
deepe
roote
that
it
was
not
possible
to
take
them
out
of
mens
hartes
in
short
space
,
and
therefore
we
should
not
maruell
if
there
be
many
●hingis
in
Luthers
doctrine
not
agreable
with
the
veritie
.
But
,
I
pray
you
,
hade
it
not
beene
more
seemely
and
as
easie
to
Luther
(
if
he
was
sent
by
God
,
whose
asistence
he
could
not
want
in
that
case
)
to
haue
told
the
veritie
at
the
beginning
as
to
haue
preached
new
errours
so
detestable
,
as
ye
say
,
and
so
contrarie
to
Godds
worde
and
our
saluation
?
what
spirite
moued
him
so
to
doe
?
If
he
●ad
winked
at
some
or
many
of
these
poinctes
that
ye
call
errours
,
which
he
found
in
the
kirk
before
him
because
of
the
inueterate
opinion
confi●med
by
long
vse
,
there
might
be
some
apparent
excuse
in
your
answere
,
but
to
bring
in
errour
for
errour
,
or
to
put
out
one
to
take
in
two
(
the
people
being
so
docill
to
●eceaue
what
so
euer
impression
at
that
tyme
Luther
wold
or
cold
haue
giuen
them
)
or
to
confirme
obstinatly
an
ancient
errour
is
no
worke
of
the
holie
spirite
,
who
should
haue
guided
your
extraordinat●e
prophete
and
new
sent
pastour
.
Or
was
the
holie
spi●ite
so
weake
in
Luthers
mouth
,
that
he
could
not
teach
him
the
veritie
?
or
Luther
so
hard
harted
,
●hat
he
could
not
receaue
,
nor
conceaue
the
veritie
mekilles
teach
it
to
others
?
or
hade
the
holie
spirite
since
that
tyme
found
Caluin
a
more
proper
instrument
to
instruct
the
world
truely
and
plainely
in
all
thinges
?
Then
why
was
he
a
lying
spirite
in
Luthers
mouth
,
seing
it
was
o●
him
,
ye
haue
your
extraordinarie
calling
,
which
now
is
so
ordinairie
and
established
that
no
man
may
preach
without
it
?
11.
Moreouer
if
it
be
lawfull
to
call
in
doubt
any
mans
doctrine
who
is
extraordinariely
sent
now
in
our
dayes
,
why
shall
it
not
be
lawfull
to
call
in
doubt
the
doctrine
of
all
the●s
,
that
euer
were
sent
extraordinariely
by
God
,
principallie
seing
ye
acknowledge
not
the
Authoritie
of
the
kirk
?
For
being
doubt
some
and
incertane
in
the
one
,
ye
can
not
be
assured
in
the
others
seing
that
it
is
that
same
God
that
sent
them
all
,
and
for
that
same
end
▪
so
shall
we
haue
the
whole
bible
,
I
say
not
subiect
to
triall
,
but
subiect
to
be
reiected
by
euery
presumptuous
braine
,
as
hath
beene
donne
by
sund●y
in
our
dayes
&
before
.
Further
seing
we
should
receaue
nothing
of
any
extraordinarie
Pastour
but
that
which
we
haue
tryed
with
the
scriptures
,
I
wold
be
glade
to
know
,
what
triall
can
be
made
by
wemen
and
children
or
ignorantes
?
For
if
triall
should
passe
before
,
why
should
any
man
or
woman
(
how
ignorant
that
euer
they
were
)
reither
then
learned
men
receaue
any
doctrine
without
triall
?
or
why
force
ye
m●n
to
approue
sweare
and
subscribe
your
negations
before
they
haue
well
tried
them
to
be
true
,
or
reither
seing
they
find
them
false
.
But
we
will
keep
the
rest
of
this
dispute
to
the
triall
of
your
sessions
presbiteries
and
assembles
prouincials
and
generals
,
where
in
generall
and
particuler
we
shall
,
God
willing
,
discusse
this
matter
the
best
we
can
.
Now
to
your
calling
,
which
I
say
can
not
be
good
,
whe●her
Luthers
be
good
or
ill
.
For
if
it
be
good
who
so
euer
ingyre
him self
to
preach
and
teach
in
the
kirk
of
God
as
being
a
lawfull
Pastour
,
not
hauing
power
of
Luther
,
should
be
esteemed
a
priuat
man
and
not
a
publik
officer
of
Gods
house
,
a
traitour
and
not
a
true
man
,
a
woolf
and
not
a
hited
,
ye
and
yours
being
without
his
mission
and
calling
,
as
we
haue
alreddie
shewin
,
I
see
not
what
ye
can
pretend
for
you
,
to
haue
donne
as
ye
haue
.
Which
I
proue
once
againe
in
this
sort
:
He
who
is
sent
a
Pastour
and
Doctour
in
the
kirk
of
God
,
principally
is
sent
to
preach
the
Doctrine
,
as
he
receaued
it
of
the
Doctour
who
sent
him
:
if
he
doeth
otherwise
,
his
commission
or
procuration
conteining
no
sic
thing
as
he
hade
donne
,
can
not
serue
him
:
for
who
so
euer
cometh
in
the
kirk
with
charge
,
cometh
as
procurer
,
and
not
as
proprieter
,
wherefor
he
should
do
according
to
his
procuration
,
(
because
he
hath
onely
the
handling
of
other
mens
goods
and
good
)
and
not
according
to
his
fantasie
,
as
if
all
were
his
owen
.
Now
if
Luther
the
first
of
this
new
extraordinarie
calling
sent
you
,
it
was
to
preach
that
same
doctrine
,
which
he
preached
&
hath
deliuered
to
the
world
before
he
sent
you
.
If
ye
keep
not
that
doctrine
,
his
mission
serueth
you
to
no
purp●s
,
because
ye
haue
not
donne
the
thing
,
wherefor
ye
were
sent
,
it
not
your
commission
iustly
called
back
and
ye
declared
euill
officers
?
As
when
ye
gif
power
or
commission
to
any
new
young
scholler
to
gouuerne
a
kirk
,
it
is
not
without
iniunctions
that
he
shall
teach
that
same
doctrine
,
that
ye
teach
and
that
he
hath
heard
of
you
,
and
not
a nother
forged
at
his
owen
fantasie
or
inuented
by
an
other
.
If
he
do
contrarie
to
your
command
,
wold
ye
not
depose
him
as
not
doing
according
to
the
power
receaued
of
you
?
and
therefore
iustly
to
be
disawowed
,
but
so
that
he
could
not
serue
him self
against
you
with
your
procuration
hauing
passed
the
boundes
prescribed
to
him
.
Now
if
ye
haue
receaued
any
power
of
Luther
or
nor
,
I
refer
the
matter
to
you
,
I
say
onely
that
ye
haue
preached
and
yet
do
preach
another
doctrine
then
he
&
his
followers
do
preach
.
ergo
ye
ar
priuat
men
and
not
publik
officers
or
lawfull
pastours
in
this
new
reformed
kirk
▪
except
perhapes
by
vertue
of
your
reformation
it
be
lawfull
to
rulle
without
reason
,
ye
may
call
your selues
pastours
and
sainctes
of
God
;
ye
will
neuer
persuade
to
men
of
iudgement
that
ye
ar
his
sainctes
as
long
as
ye
take
vpon
you
,
the
charge
of
Pastours
without
power
or
charge
.
Think
not
but
thi●
merites
a
●u●t
excommunication
▪
and
not
a
conterfaited
folie
lyk
yours
,
medling
our selues
with
things
for
aboue
your
state
,
being
but
priuat
men
,
yea
so
meikill
worse
then
priuat
men
,
that
your
vsurpation
maketh
you
giltie
of
cryme
of
lesmaiestie
diuine
.
I●
ye
will
not
credit
me
,
go
to
Luther
your
first
patriarche
,
and
he
will
declare
,
w●at
he
thinke●h
,
seing
he
hath
long
since
excommunicated
you
out
of
his
new
kirk
because
in
place
of
his
heauenly
doctrine
(
as
he
sayeth
)
ye
haue
teached
your
doctrine
which
ye
haue
brought
out
of
hell
(
tak
you
to
him
if
the
words
be
some
what
sharpe
)
to
prison
the
wordle
;
and
for
that
cause
in
the
very
beginning
he
did
excommunicat
Caluin
&
Zuinglius
whom
he
called
sacramentaries
and
that
most
iustly
according
to
their
owen
opinion
:
for
they
acknowledging
him
for
that
new
beginning
of
their
vocation
and
new
reformed
kirk
,
it
behoued
him
to
haue
that
power
aboue
them
.
So
what
doubt
is
but
Luther
hauing
power
to
send
them
,
hath
power
also
to
call
them
back
if
they
past
the
boundes
of
his
commission
?
I
he
hath
called
them
back
and
broken
the
commission
he
gaue
them
before
(
as
in
deed
he
hath
donne
what
he
could
that
is
in
imagination
as
he
gaue
them
that
power
)
they
at
priuate
men
againe
in
the
middes
of
their
reformation
,
and
ye
also
,
destitute
of
all
power
and
authoritie
to
excommunicat
any
man
.
By
this
although
Luther
hath
neuer
called
backe
his
power
gifin
to
Caluin
,
yet
could
it
serue
him
for
no
Warrand
,
seing
that
Luther
denyeth
planely
that
euer
he
him self
receaueth
any
charge
to
speake
or
write
sundry
thinges
,
which
Caluin
and
Zuinglius
haue
spoken
and
written
since
that
tyme
:
and
therefor
he
calles
them
heretiks
and
sacramentaries
as
I
haue
said
before
.
Or
if
he
receaued
charge
to
preach
thes
thinges
,
why
condemneth
he
other
men
,
who
preached
them
?
There
were
some
excuse
,
if
he
did
not
all
,
but
there
is
no
excuse
nor
reason
,
why
he
should
hinder
other
men
hauing
lawfull
power
of
him self
,
to
do
that
which
he
could
not
do
,
or
to
condemne
them
,
who
teacheth
the
veritie
that
being
the
chief
and
principall
end
of
his
●xtraordinarie
vocation
.
There
is
none
of
all
●he
Prophetee
,
Euangelists
,
or
other
holie
writters
,
who
haue
written
althinges
,
which
●t
hath
pleased
God
to
sh●w
to
the
world
.
●or
so
he
hath
though
it
good
to
distribute
●is
giftes
at
sundry
tyms
,
to
sundry
person●es
,
for
sundry
reasons
,
as
he
thought
it
most
●xpedient
for
his
glorie
and
our
saluation
.
●ut
there
is
none
of
them
all
who
either
gaine
sayeth
or
condemneth
the
others
▪
meikilles
stoppeth
them
to
say
or
write
any
thing
that
they
haue
in
charge
to
declare
and
publish
to
the
world
▪
here
tourne
you
to
what
syde
ye
will
either
Luther
shal
be
a
false
prophete
or
Caluin
an
Apostate
,
&
his
vocation
null
and
yours
also
.
12.
I
mak
no
doubt
but
ye
will
reither
forsak
Luther
,
howbeit
first
,
then
Caluin
your
last
patron
.
I
may
obiect
here
to
you
the
honourable
titels
(
quo
iure
non
disp●to
)
that
Caluin
gifeth
to
Luther
as
to
a
true
seruant
of
God
,
and
not
as
to
a
false
prophete
,
which
were
sufficient
to
close
your
mouthes
if
they
could
be
closed
.
But
I
will
passe
this
as
if
it
were
not
,
and
speak
of
Caluin
and
you
,
because
ye
may
say
that
Caluin
him self
was
sent
extraordinariely
to
performe
that
excellent
worke
,
in
vaine
and
falsely
attempted
by
Luther
,
I
will
well
by
supposition
,
prouiding
that
ye
reformed
brethren
will
stand
there
to
,
and
suffer
me
to
examine
the
matter
a
litill
:
for
we
shall
see
,
if
ye
can
fight
better
vnder
this
new
captaine
.
Caluin
or
any
oth●r
ye
will
,
was
sent
(
I
suppose
this
now
,
in
case
ye
will
not
stand
by
Luther
&
tak
your
ordinarie
calling
of
him
)
extraordinariely
by
God
him self
to
teach
the
veritie
,
and
ministrate
the
sacraments
according
to
the
reformation
●e
was
to
make
:
if
he
did
not
his
duetie
in
this
most
excellent
and
necessarie
charge
,
ye
should
esteeme
him
▪
as
he
is
,
a
false
prophete
,
who
being
commanded
by
God
and
assisted
by
the
holie
Spirite
(
for
sure
I
am
in
your
opinion
he
lacketh
not
that
ioyned
to
his
charge
)
yet
wold
not
declare
the
veritie
truely
&
plainely
without
admixting
some
lyes
of
his
owne
by
the
deuils
suggestion
,
where
by
the
world
migh●
be
of
new
poysoned
with
false
doctrine
vnder
colour
of
Goddes
soueraigne
name
.
If
this
be
true
he
merites
more
them
to
be
slaine
Spiritus
mendax
in
ore
eius
:
or
that
he
hath
donne
besides
his
commission
,
of
which
neither
can
be
true
if
God
was
the
authour
.
It
will
serue
you
for
nothing
to
say
,
that
he
was
but
a
man
&
might
erre
.
Because
all
the
prophetes
and
Apostles
were
but
men
and
might
erre
.
yet
the
assistance
of
the
holie
Spirite
suffered
them
not
to
erre
in
there
commission
,
&
therefor
we
receaue
their
sayinges
as
Goddes
owen
sayinges
,
because
he
was
the
●uthour
,
&
they
onely
the
instrument
.
Why
receaue
ye
not
Caluin
in
this
maner
?
or
shew
vs
that
God
hade
sent
any
man
to
deceaue
vs
falsis
vera
im●isce●s
.
I
think
ye
will
find
no
sic
Sinons
sent
extraordinariely
by
God
,
or
if
there
be
any
,
lett
vs
heare
their
names
.
If
Caluin
was
sent
,
as
ye
pretend
,
ye
should
thinke
that
God
hath
instructed
him
well
,
&
hath
giuen
him
good
and
sufficient
directions
(
for
else
the
fault
shal
be
Goddes
&
not
his
)
and
suffered
him
not
to
go
therefro
:
otherwise
it
hath
beene
a
great
vanitie
to
haue
sent
him
.
Ye
will
perhapes
replie
that
God
in
all
ages
had
raised
vp
Godly
fathers
&
learned
men
to
oppose
them selues
to
errours
and
abuses
beginning
to
enter
in
the
kirk
,
as
S.
Athanase
,
S.
Basile
,
S.
Augustin
,
S.
B●rnard
&
othe●s
in
great
nomber
,
whose
writinges
notwithstanding
ar
not
altogether
so
cleene
but
something
may
be
tried
&
corrected
.
I
answere
there
be
great
difference
betwixt
them
&
Caluin
or
any
other
to
whome
the
reformation
●ath
beene
extraordinariely
committed
.
For
although
these
Godly
and
learned
fathers
were
sent
by
God
,
yet
were
they
not
sent
extraordinariely
▪
but
by
the
ordinarie
way
:
for
they
receaued
their
vocation
and
power
of
the
Catholik
kirk
in
whose
bosome
they
were
brought
vp
and
●eached
:
The
doctrine
which
they
had
receaued
of
the
kirk
,
they
deliuered
to
the
members
of
the
kirk
,
where
in
they
remained
still
as
obedient
children
,
submitting
all
their
works
and
writtinges
to
hir
iudgement
,
condemning
as
schismatiks
or
heretiks
,
all
those
who
left
hir
,
employing
their
wholl
trauell
and
writtinges
to
defend
and
mainteine
hir
against
all
Satans
insultes
,
never
making
any
sect
a
part
,
never
alledging
any
particuler
commission
to
reforme
others
,
nor
yet
to
bring
any
new
thing
.
Caluin
to
the
contraire
left
the
kirk
where
he
was
conceaued
and
teached
an
other
doctrine
,
then
he
hath
learned
of
his
mother
Christs
spouse
,
whome
he
shamefully
foresook
,
refusing
in
any
wise
to
acknowledge
hir
or
hir
iudgement
▪
〈◊〉
him self
to
them
,
whome
he
condem●●th
in
mynd
and
writting
,
oppugning
and
●u●sprysing
hir
,
who
concea●ed
him
,
making
a
band
a
part
,
because
of
the
pretended
commission
he
had
receaued
to
reforme
all
these
thinges
merited
a
good
warrand
to
be
beleeued
,
seing
they
conteine
so
many
strange
maximes
aboue
or
contrarie
to
all
good
reason
,
which
can
not
be
found
in
the
foresade
godly
and
learned
fathers
who
were
sent
before
.
And
therefore
their
example
maketh
nothing
for
Caluin
and
his
doinges
or
errours
.
Ye
will
say
for
your
and
his
defence
,
that
they
at
but
litle
thinges
where
in
ye
dissent
frome
him
.
I
know
that
neither
he
,
nor
ye
can
do
a
great
fault
,
ye
ar
all
Goddes
owen
mignons
▪
how
soone
that
the
lord
heareth
,
tha●
it
is
y●e
,
who
hath
committed
any
thing
,
it
is
incontinent
excused
,
because
of
your
stronge
faith
,
which
changes
●nauery
in
good
seruice
.
But
I
pray
you
how
shall
I
know
,
if
his
faultes
be
great
or
small
▪
seing
that
ye
will
receaue
no
thing
at
all
of
his
doctrine
,
till
ye
haue
had
it
vpon
th●
touchstone
of
your
iudgement
?
and
so
for
their
litill
thinges
,
as
ye
call
them
,
ye
call
all
in
doubt
,
at
lest
with
other
men
▪
who
perchance
may
think
meikill
,
that
ye
think
litill
.
And
here
vpon
(
good
sires
pardon
me
,
if
I
be
so
bold
)
I
gi●
you
no
more
credit
then
ye
gif
Caluin
?
for
by
your
owen
rule
,
I
must
●rye
bothe
his
saying
and
your
iudgement
,
before
that
I
receaue
any
thing
,
yea
I
will
re●●aue
,
nether
because
he
sayeth
it
,
nor
because
ye
approue
it
(
for
that
were
to
do
w●ong
to
the
spirite
and
Christian
libertie
)
but
●●ca●se
I
think
that
I
haue
●ound
it
so
in
●h●●ible
.
For
if
I
find
it
not
there
I
will
condemne
and
detest
it
as
a
plaine
heresie
,
〈◊〉
that
where
i●
ye
agree
no●
with
Caluin
,
but
all
the
rest
,
and
this
(
as
I
haue
said
)
according
to
your
owen
rule
and
pretended
C●●istian
libertie
,
where
by
●uery
man
is
i●●g●
in
all
thinges
within
the
reformed
kirk
.
Further
it
may
seeme
by
the
forsaid
answer
that
ye
think
a
man
can
not
receaue
a
de●dly
wound
;
except
he
be
(
as
they
say
)
〈◊〉
to
the
teeth
.
Certainely
the
largenesse
of
the
wound
oft●ntymes
m●keth
no●
the
danger
,
but
the
place
and
part
that
is
wounded
.
A
man
may
be
strooken
through
the
body
,
and
y●t
liue
;
a
pri●k
with
a
pi●n●
in
the
hea●t
or
harnes
myght
bring
certain●
death
,
which
should
not
be
mesured
by
the
greatnes
of
the
wound
,
but
by
the
lo●●e
of
the
man
:
ye
ar
not
ignorant
how
litill
difference
was
betwix
the
Cat●●ol●kes
and
the
A●rians
if
we
will
look
to
the
lett●rs
.
But
to
reto●●ne
to
your
Apostle
he
was
sent
to
shew
vs
the
true
way
,
yet
hath
he
ledde
vs
by
the
way
and
deceaued
vs
▪
how
litill
as
euer
the
mater
be
▪
his
part
is
not
good
▪
Certainely
I
can
not
esteeme
your
Patriarche
(
be
it
Luther
,
Caluin
,
Z●ingli●s
▪
Knoxe
,
Willox
,
Me●●en
,
He●io●e
,
Craig
or
what
so
euer
other
ye
will
for
all
is
one
in
thes
mater
)
a
true
prophete
,
seing
ye
your selfes
esteeme
him
a
liar
.
For
a
litill
leasing
▪
principallie
in
matters
of
religion
,
maketh
no
lesse
a
lier
then
a
great
leasing
,
onely
the
greater
it
be
,
he
is
the
mo●e
detestable
who
maketh
it
▪
Ye
will
perchance
here
reply
to
me
▪
and
say
that
God
suffered
him
to
fall
in
some
thing
●●
where
by
bothe
he
and
we
might
knew
that
he
was
but
a
man
.
I
answer
first
that
it
was
not
●eed●u●l
because
no
〈◊〉
could
haue
taken
him
for
a
God
,
although
he
●ade
said
all
true
▪
for
we
beleeue
not
that
the
Apostles
&
Prophetes
ar
Gods
▪
albeit
we
be
surely
persuaded
that
all
is
true
that
they
haue
said
,
〈◊〉
lest
that
they
haue
left
vs
by
writt
.
Next
there
was
no
sic
superna●urall
thing
in
him
as
might
bring
●s
in
that
errour
,
last
of
all
it
hath
beene
more
prope●●or
vs
that
he
had
said
althinges
〈◊〉
wit●●●●
any
suspicion
of
falshood
▪
where
by
we
might
assuredly
haue
knowen
that
God
had
sent
him
and
spoken
in
him
:
and
that
for
his
cause
,
who
sent
him
,
we
should
receaue
him
as
an
extraor●inarie
pastour
come
to
reforme
the
world
.
It
was
not
needfull
to
hazard
our
saluation
to
proue
him
a
man
,
but
we
needed
many
good
arguments
to
proue
,
that
God
had
sent
him
,
and
principallie
an
argument
taken
frome
the
veritie
▪
As
to
him self
I
find
him
extreme
proude
in
all
his
writtinges
,
yet
think
I
no●
that
he
esteemed
him selfe
a
God
,
and
sure
I
am
he
died
not
with
that
opinion
,
I
say
no
further
.
Ye
will
perchance
aske
of
me
here
,
if
I
wold
conclude
that
ye
ar
also
false
prophetes
and
liers
,
if
ye
teach
any
false
doctrine
,
as
doubtles
ye
do
?
No
truely
,
although
in
some
sense
,
I
might
most
iustly
so
conclude
:
for
●here
is
great
difference
now
betwix
you
,
as
ye
professe
your selues
to
be
but
ordinatie
pastours
(
if
perchance
ye
content
your selfes
with
so
humble
and
simple
a
stile
)
and
Caluin
o●
any
other
,
whome
ye
acknowledge
to
b●
sent
ext●●ordinariely
by
God
him self
:
fo●
howbeit
your
power
(
if
ye
haue
any
▪
I
vnderstand
)
be
diuine
,
as
comming
of
God
,
ye●
your
iudgement
is
but
humaine
▪
so
that
it
i●
no
meruaill
if
ye
go
sometymes
wronge
i●
high
maters
which
should
be
called
re●he
an
e●●ou●
,
then
a
lie
,
because
ye
w●r●
dec●●ue●
in
your
opinion
as
men
.
For
this
cause
the
ordinarie
Pastour
is
obliged
▪
to
follow
the
footstopes
of
his
forfathers
▪
&
make
no
new
way
to
him self
,
nor
any
thing
that
seemed
to
incline
to
noueltie
:
because
humano
iudgement
should
not
be
bold
in
diuine
matters
:
for
i●
ye
open
the
doore
that
euery
man
may
iudge
as
he
list
,
there
can
be
no
assurance
in
religion
,
but
dayly
change
,
as
spirites
of
men
be
diuerse
bothe
frome
them self●s
and
others
.
But
Caluin
(
or
any
other
ye
will
)
being
sent
by
God
him self
,
came
not
here
to
tell
vs
his
opinion
as
a
man
,
●ut
to
declare
Gods
mynd
and
will
as
an
instrument
chosen
extraordina●iely
for
that
effect
.
So
that
if
he
haue
failled
,
it
can
not
b●
called
human
a
mentis
error
,
but
a
per●iciouse
lie
against
the
holie
spirite
,
who
hathe
geuen
him
expresse
charge
to
speak
otherwise
then
he
spak
.
For
he
lieth
,
who
in
his
maisters
name
sayeth
thinges
which
his
maister
never
had
said
;
Omnis
enim
debet
sine
●a●o
nucius
●sse
.
The
Poetes
haue
fained
the
messengers
of
their
fabulous
Goddes
,
more
discreit
,
then
ye
acknowledge
the
messengers
of
th●
true
God
;
for
ye
shall
not
lightly
find
any
one
worde
changed
in
M●rcuri●s
Commissions
,
he
is
so
religious
in
doing
his
charge
.
The
same
may
be
said
of
Princes
Embassadors
in
theis
dayes
.
I
think
it
should
meikill
lesse
be
permitred
to
any
man
to
goe
from
the
commission
gifin
to
him
by
God
,
either
in
eiking
or
pairing
,
what
shall
I
say
to
speek
to
contrarie
?
Now
nothwithstanding
all
this
seing
ye
find
errours
in
your
Apostle
,
where
by
ye
think
not
your selfes
obliged
to
follow
him
,
but
with
this
caueat
,
if
he
agree
with
the
written
worde
,
ye
gif
the
world●
plainely
to
vnderstand
that
ye
approue
not
his
extraordinarie
vocation
▪
but
receaues
him
as
another
man
of
the
common
so●t
,
who
may
●eceaue
many
good
and
true
instructions
of
your
spit●te
▪
which
is
the
true
square
and
rule
of
all
other
spirites
,
where
vpon
●
conclude
that
ye
haue
no
calling
of
his
lying
spir●te
(
pardon
me
if
I
say
so
seing
I
say
it
after
you
)
who
could
haue
no
si●
power
▪
and
for
that
same
reason
your
vocation
is
fallen
in
non
entery
,
because
ye
haue
bene
so
many
yeares
in
violent
possession
,
and
can
not
as
yet
shew
either
yours
or
any
of
your
forefathers
re●oures
:
vpon
theis
●ands
ye
haue
builded
your
house
,
yea
erected
your
Kingdome
of
confusi
on
,
and
established
your
lawes
of
pa●rtie
to
haue
all
men
subiect
to
your
ministeriall
imaginations
tending
to
the
ruine
of
all
superior
powers
.
The
more
high
your
interpri●es
b●
,
th●
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
you●
tre●son
,
the
●ust
cause
men
●at●
▪
not
onely
to
disobey
you
▪
but
meikill
more
to
gaine-stand
you
as
●sur●ers
of
Christs
Iesus
charge
and
office
wit●out
his
commission
or
command
,
and
troublers
of
the
common
wealth
and
seditiouse
subiects
,
qui
est
is
nat●
in
pernicie●
Principum
〈◊〉
bonorum
omnium
▪
Bragge
of
your
excommunication
as
ye
please
it
is
but
an
vaine
imagination
,
a
bugle
to
fra●
babes
▪
or
a
scare
crow
▪
●
found
and
a
shew
▪
without
●ither
danger
or
profite
,
and
in
a
word
i●
is
but
a
false
●honder
where
by
no
man
can
be
made
●elp●lo
nigrio●●●o
.
13.
I
look
here
for
your
last
refuge
ye
will
pay
〈◊〉
with
your
ordinarie
fashion
of
scoffing
▪
for
some
of
you
being
asked
where
ye
found
the
ki●k
do●
answer
,
in
the
〈◊〉
midding
of
Papis●rie
▪
Truely
a
most
meete
and
proper
natiue
so●le
for
so
wor●●ie
and
noble
a
Lady
as
your
ki●k
is
▪
I
gesse
your
vocation
was
●ound
in
the
same
royall
palace
.
This
an●wer
as
it
is
more
neer
to
the
purpos
,
so
it
contented
〈◊〉
meikill
better
▪
for
the
Apost●●●
priests
▪
monkes
▪
and
friers
with
other
dissol●te
●●●d
debouched
men
of
our
ki●k
were
the
first
groundston●●
of
your
re●ormed
f●●ie
congregation
:
so
if
we
hade
neuer
had
aposta●●●
,
ye
should
neuer
haue
●ad
Apostles
▪
Luth●r
was
●
mo●k
,
C●l●i●
a
〈◊〉
none
,
Beza
a
Priour
,
Knoxe
a
Priest
.
If
ye
desyre
to
be
any
further
informed
of
this
matter
,
our
country
may
furnish
you
many
true
histories
of
the
great
and
charitable
pietie
of
your
primitiue
kirk
when
it
begane
40.
yeares
since
.
14.
Now
to
the
last
head
of
our
dispute
,
where
as
the
matter
is
more
cleare
so
shall
we
be
more
shorte
.
Gising
and
not
granting
that
ye
hade
good
Calling
and
were
lawfull
true
Pastours
hauing
power
to
bind
and
loose
.
I
ask
what
iurisdiction
ye
can
haue
vpon
them
,
who
neuer
were
subiect
to
you
;
neuer
acknowledged
nor
could
acknowledge
you
for
lawfull
pastours
hauing
at
al
tymes
made
profession
of
the
Catholik
religion
which
is
so
far
different
,
yea
contrarie
to
that
which
ye
professe
,
and
desyres
them
to
embrace
,
how
can
ye
vrge
theis
men
to
acknowledge
you
,
or
how
can
ye
excommunicat
and
separate
them
frome
you
as
rotten
and
spilt
members
frome
the
rest
of
your
reformed
body
,
they
neuer
being
of
your
body
.
Feare
ye
not
that
men
laught
at
you
and
your
folie
,
to
dispose
so
rashely
vpon
thinges
neuer
yours
except
perchance
by
a
reformed
imagination
,
or
dreame
?
Kinges
and
Princes
vses
not
to
banish
out
of
their
dominions
other
princes
subiects
who
neuer
were
within
their
boundes
.
True
it
is
,
that
they
may
forbid
any
stranger
to
enter
within
their
empires
,
and
that
for
good
and
iust
reasons
,
yea
for
their
only
pleasure
if
they
will
so
,
because
the
lands
ar
theirs
,
and
so
may
receaue
,
or
hold
out
any
man
as
they
list
,
or
punish
sic
as
wold
without
their
licence
enter
there
in
.
But
to
banish
men
that
never
were
within
their
realmes
,
were
a
thing
very
ridiculouse
,
that
I
say
not
,
foolish
.
And
to
constraine
free
men
,
or
other
Princes
subiects
to
gif
them
the
othe
of
fidelitie
and
du●
seruice
were
altogether
against
reason
,
principally
neuer
being
with
in
their
iurisdiction
.
Lykwise
I
say
to
you
,
that
ye
can
not
iustly
force
thes
men
now
to
acknowledge
you
who
neuer
were
yours
;
ye
may
in
deed
forbid
them
to
enter
in
to
your
kirk
,
or
to
assis●
to
your
seruice
,
if
ye
haue
any
,
or
to
your
prayers
,
or
to
take
any
charge
amongst
you
,
seing
that
they
●r
not
of
you●
sto●●
:
but
how
ye
can
passe
any
further
against
them
truely
I
see
not
,
except
ye
wold
say
,
that
your
power
hath
no
other
marches
,
then
your
will
and
fantasie
.
An
ample
empyre
truely
if
it
be
so
.
Ye
will
haue
the
ex●resse
word
of
God
for
all
thing●s
that
other
●en
say
.
I
pray
you
bring
vs
here
some
good
●nd
euid●n●●e●●
of
the
scripture
which
may
serue
you
for
bound
&
charter
of
your
bordors●
cite
vs
some
sure
place
,
by
whose
authoritie
ye
may
proue
that
it
is
lawfull
to
banish
men
out
of
your
kirk
,
who
neuer
were
in
it
.
Think
ye
not
but
this
meriteth
two
or
three
passages
of
the
holie
writt
,
befor
ye
passe
to
the
execution
there
of
.
The
Iew●s
did
esteeme
the
Gentils
in
rank
of
excommunicated
men
;
but
neuer
did
excommunicat
them
:
that
is
did
hold
them
as
profane
men
destitute
of
the
grace
and
assistance
of
God
,
and
out
of
his
kirk
seing
that
they
professed
not
that
same
religion
,
which
onely
at
that
t●me
was
the
true
religion
.
But
neuer
did
they
curt
them
of
their
body
as
rotten
members
thereof
,
because
they
were
not
of
their
body
,
but
reither
a
body
a
part
distinguished
frome
them
bothe
in
religio●
and
ceremonies
,
which
onely
the
I●wes
did
declare
,
and
could
do
no
further
,
C●ptaines
vses
not
,
to
discharge
or
b●ack
out
of
their
●ands
,
souldiours
who
neuer
were
vnder
their
banners
.
Christ
Iesus
neuer
gaue
●o
any
sic
exemple
or
command
nor
yet
,
the
Apostles
,
y●●
none
of
their
successours
after
them
▪
Where●
find
ye
the
Iewe●
or
gentils
excommunicated
by
the
Apostles
or
primi●iue
●irk
?
I
find
●ruell
pors●●utiōs
exercised
ag●●nst
the
Christians
and
their
great
patience
with
〈◊〉
and
●eruent
prayer
made
for
their
persecutors
,
I
find
not
their
execrations
and
curse●
against
them
.
●e
s●e
the
Iewes
yet
among●
the
Christians
and
vnconstrained
to
embrace
the
veritie
▪
o●
ye●
excommunicated
,
except
by
that
generall
excommunication
where
by
they
ar
all
declared
strangers
in
Goddes
house
and
profane
personnes
▪
with
whome
notwithstanding
we
may
h●●
n●●peek
;
trafik
,
and
communicat
●iuille
although
that
our
kirk
doores
and
prayer
places
be
closed
vp
to
them
.
They
may
haue
action
in
law
against
any
man
who
hath
either
offended
them
,
or
is
owing
them
any
thing
▪
Iustice
is
not
refused
to
them
,
because
they
,
ar
me●
remaining
with
in
the
same
common
wealth
.
Now
seing
the●s
branches
were
neuer
your●
How
can
ye
〈◊〉
them
of
your
tree
.
K●mi
su●
alteri●●
arbor●s
.
If
ye
could
do
that
,
ye
might
hardely
va●●t
your selues
to
haue
donne
a
miracle
,
which
hath
beene
so
often
craued
at
your
hands
for
your
extraordinaire
vocation
.
15.
But
ye
will
say
tha●
they
ar
in
your
Pari●hes
▪
and
therefore
ye
haue
power
vpon
them
as
vpon
the
rest
who
ar
within
the
same
iurisdiction
.
I
vnderstand
well
▪
ye
ar
●ands
lo●de●
,
all
is
yours
that
g●owe●
vpon
●he
gro●●d
.
But
good
●●●es
▪
ye
should
first
shew
that
the
ground
is
yours
,
and
then
dispose
there
vpon
at
your
pleasour
▪
we
shall
neuer
op●n
our
mouthes
to
gainesay
you
.
The
iurisdiction
that
ye
pretend
is
spirituall
,
hitherto
they
haue
neuer
entred
wi●h
in
your
dominious
▪
Why
will
ye
now
force
them
to
land
,
because
they
ar
driuen
by
storme
of
wind
vpon
your
costes
?
They
ar
●orie
that
your
limites
ar
so
neer
to
them
.
The
onely
sight
of
your
realme
hath
disgusted
them
exceedingly
:
suffer
them
to
stay
where
they
ar
and
they
will
enter
no
further
.
They
content
them
with
your
good
will
.
The
Turkes
constraine
no
man
to
embrace
their
opinion
,
except
he
enter
with
in
their
temple
:
any
man
may
be
within
the
countrey
without
any
compulsion
.
ye
require
more
then
the
most
cruell
tyrannes
▪
If
ye
will
credit
them
it
shall
not
be
needfull
to
banish
them
out
of
your
territorie
.
They
desyre
not
to
enter
.
They
haue
chosen
another
free
citie
,
where
they
like
better
to
be
burgessis
,
which
they
will
lose
,
if
they
enter
with
you
.
Vlysses
was
neuer
more
desyrous
to
be
deliuered
out
of
Polyphemu●
cauerne
,
or
danger
of
Si●enes
,
or
Charibdis
then
they
to
be
exempt
of
your
communion
.
It
is
but
in
vaine
ye
excommunicat
them
who
neuer
haue
,
nor
yet
desyre
to
communicat
with
you
.
Ye
do
as
they
tell
the
●able
of
the
foxe
and
plummes
,
which
he
could
not
come
by
,
nigra
sun●●olo
they
ar
black
(
sayeth
he
)
I
will
haue
none
of
them
.
ye
ar
very
liberall
,
ye
gif
to
others
,
which
neither
is
yours
nor
can
ye
haue
▪
what
extraordinarie
reformed
charitie
is
this
in
you
to
deliuer
ouer
to
Satan
Goddes
creatures
not
being
in
your
charge
nor
keeping
,
meikill
lesse
at
your
gift
?
But
good
sires
why
ta●
ye
not
the
paines
to
shew
that
ye
haue
the
true
kirk
,
out
of
which
there
is
no
salu●tion
;
and
that
ye
ar
lawfull
pastours
,
to
whome
all
true
Christians
ar
obliged
to
obey
as
to
Christs
vic●i●es
and
lieutenants
▪
This
were
the
ordinarie
and
easie
way
,
if
ye
wold
follow
it
;
for
this
being
once
sufficiently
●hewen
;
I
doubt
not
but
they
wold
shew
them selues
very
docil
and
very
easie
to
receaue
all
your
instructions
,
because
of
your
vndoubted
authoritie
and
charge
.
Ye
might
then
very
well
exhorte
them
to
enter
witbin
your
spirituall
iurisdiction
,
seing
ye
hade
the
lawfull
power
to
receaue
them
,
and
to
enroll
them
among
the
Children
of
God
,
and
heauenly
citizens
.
If
they
wold
not
yet
heare
you
,
ye
might
according
to
Christs
command
,
shake
the
dust
of
your
feete
▪
and
leaue
their
blood
vpon
their
owen
heades
except
perchance
ye
wold
patiently
abyde
their
conuersion
to
God
,
seing
that
some
ar
called
and
do
〈◊〉
in
the
●ords
vinia●d
▪
in
the
morning
,
some
at
midday
,
some
in
the
●uening
,
and
at
last
all
ar
new
●tded
for
their
l●bours
,
●o
the
which
none
ar
constrained
▪
Ye
know
that
faith
is
a
gift
of
God
,
it
c●n
not
be
found
e●●ry
where
.
Spiritu●
vb●
vul●
spir●t
it
depended
〈◊〉
vpon
our
will
,
nor
●eurs
to
make
men
bel●●ue
the
veri●ie
▪
that
appe●●in●d
to
God
onely
.
vol●ntas
●ogino●
p●●est●●
〈◊〉
is
God
onely
▪
who
may
change
the
hardnes
of
mens
hea●●es
.
Why
will
ye
force
men
,
seing
we
deny
free
will
:
If
ye
say
as
ye
think
why
v●ge
ye
men
as
if
they
had
it
▪
excuse
me
,
if
I
propose
sic
thinges
,
seing
I
do
it
following
your
h●mour
and
strange
opinions
.
I
〈◊〉
some
exemple
either
of
▪
ou●
maister
●esus
Christ
o●
of
his
Apos●los
▪
where
either
〈◊〉
or
Gentill
euer
was
constrained
to
acknowledge
the
gospell
,
o●
excommunicated
●f
●he
wold
non
I
will
graunt
to
〈◊〉
very
freely
▪
that
all
men
who
will
not
acknowledge
the
true
kirk●
and
lawfull
pastour●
a●
with
out
the
communion
and
pa●k●
of
Iesu●
Christ
▪
but
not
●u●
out
of
th●
communion
of
〈◊〉
park
of
Iesus
Christ
:
because
as
I
haue
said
now
often
,
they
were
ne●er
within
i●
▪
And
therefore
the
Apostles
and
●h●ir
〈◊〉
did
euer
ciuilie
conuerse
with
the
●othe
preaching
and
teaching
the
ve●iti●
(
where
by
our
for
fathers
were
con●erted
to
God
)
but
neuer
admitted
them
to
be
present
at
Goddes
s●r●ice
till
they
hade
left
their
errour
&
were
instr●cted
in
the
trueth
,
and
so
rece●ned
in
the
bosome
of
the
kirk
a●
true
Christians
should
be
.
If
the
Apostles
had
de●a●red
from●
their
companie
all
men
,
who
wo●d
not
incontinent
embrace
their
doct●ine
,
I
think
they
●hold
not
haue
〈◊〉
so
m●ny
as
they
haue
donne
.
In
their
pa●ien●e
they
ouercame
the
world
,
wonn●
the
fa●ou●
of
their
enemies
,
assured
the
faithfull
,
b●a●●gled
the
infidel●es
seeing
them
die
so
co●●dgeously
for
the
ve●i●ie
that
they
preached
,
&
at
last
left
ou●
for
fathers
peaceable
in
the
kirk
of
God
?
which
certainely
was
a
heauenly
work
donne
by
naturall
inst●un●en●es
indued
with
supernaturall
graces
and
vertues
,
infused
by
the
holie
Spirite
in
the
hear●●s
of
●●ue
and
law●ull
pasto●●s
to
confound
all
worldly
wi●dome
and
bring
vs
wi●h
simplicitie
and
obedience
to
eternall
blisse
.
In
pl●ce
of
which
godly
modestie
and
meeknes
ye
employ
your
reformed
force
and
violence
shewing
that
ye
had
●e●●her
make
,
them
●e
made
martyres
,
where
in
by
many
degrees
ye
s●●pass●
the
cruell
barb●●●●
of
the
Turkes
,
impati●t
au●
importune
in
all
your
actions
,
yet
according
to
your
discipline
(
which
is
against
all
good
discipline
)
impellens
quidquid
sibi
summa
petenti
obsis●it
,
g●udensque
v●am
●ecisse
ruina
.
—
Magnámque
cade●●
magnámque
reuertens
dat●stragem
latè
,
sparsosque
recoll●gi●
ignes
.
16.
Thus
faire
for
them
who
all
wai●e
haue
remamed
Catholikes
,
as
to
others
who
haue
at
any
tyme
yeelded
to
you
being
●ither
forced
or
deceiued
by
you
,
good
reason
requireth
that
they
be
sett
at
libertie
as
before
.
Doubtles
the
law
will
declare
all
sic
men
as
free
frome
all
obligation
to
you
,
as
they
who
neuer
were
yours
,
because
of
the
violence
and
deceit
ye
haue
vsed
,
principallie
seing
it
is
so
fa●re
against
the
honour
of
God
,
the
Kinges
Maiesties
servi●e
,
and
publik
honestie
,
and
yoú
to
be
punished
as
publik
transgressours
of
diuine
and
humaine
lawes
.
If
ye
will
haue
men
obliged
to
your
doctrine
and
discipline
,
sett
vp
new
play
,
proceed
with
honest
lawfull
and
godly
meanes
without
bothe
fraud
&
force
errour
or
treason
take
an
ordinarie
sure
calling
or
proue
wel
your
extraordinarie
,
and
then
,
who
hat●
once
acknowledged
you
,
punish
him
●
your
discretion
and
according
to
your
lawes
,
if
he
reuolt
frome
you
,
But
now
as
maters
goeth
,
although
I
were
a
zealous
brother
yet
as
faithfull
Christian
and
true
subiect
,
I
wold
be
gladd
to
be
excommunicated
out
of
your
companie
,
where
treason
and
heresies
ar
confirmed
with
subscriptions
and
solemne
oathes
.
18.
Now
to
end
with
you
,
I
will
yet
make
you
an
offer
,
as
I
think
very
reasonable
,
which
is
this
.
Seing
ye
wil
haue
no
thing
that
cometh
of
the
Catholik
Apostolik
and
Romaine
Kirk
,
as
being
infected
with
superstition
and
Idolatrie
▪
nor
acknowledge
the
Pape
,
because
ye
esteeme
him
the
Antichrist
,
and
therefor
will
haue
no
counceill
gathered
by
him
:
do
like
good
&
vigilant
pastours
,
assemble
your selues
by
whose
authoritie
ye
please
,
hold
an
vniuersall
synode
among
your
reformed
brethren
of
all
sortes
through
out
the
whole
reformed
world
,
without
beginning
and
ending
,
that
there
appeere
no
superiorite
▪
make
a
round
table
,
speek
al
at
once
;
dispute
vpon
the
controuerted
heads
:
agree
among
your selues
and
we
shall
agree
with
you
.
what
can
ye
ask
more
of
vs
?
if
no
accorde
can
be
hade
among
you
,
how
can
we
agree
with
you
?
Consenting
with
any
one
companie
,
we
shall
haue
all
the
rest
for
enemies
,
and
shall
not
be
assured
if
the
partie
,
that
we
haue
followed
,
will
stand
long
at
his
owen
opinion
.
Or
if
ye
think
this
offer
of
greater
expenses
then
esperance
,
we
will
make
you
another
,
to
agree
with
you
&
subscribe
your
con●ession
of
faith
,
if
ye
can
shew
that
euer
there
was
any
empire
,
Kingdome
,
canton
,
citie
,
toune
,
village
or
cothouse
,
yea
any
single
man
Catholik
or
heretik
,
young
or
old
,
lerned
or
ignorant
,
professing
your
doctrine
and
gouuerned
by
your
discipline
before
this
last
hondred
yeares
.
If
ye
refuse
this
offers
,
iudge
your
selues
,
what
the
reformed
flock
may
think
of
you
.
Abyding
your
answere
I
will
mak
here
an
end
and
pray
God
to
gif
vs
his
eternall
blesse
,
and
to
you
(
where
by
ye
may
atteine
to
the
same
)
a
faith
that
may
stand
with
your
duetie
to
God
and
Prince
,
and
with
Christian
charitie
.
Fare
well
.