❧
Ihon
Knox
To
the
faythfull
in
London
/
Newcastell
/
Barwyke
/
&
to
all
others
/
within
the
Realme
of
Englande
/
that
leuith
the
comming
of
our
Lord
Iesus
/
Wissheth
continuance
in
godlines
too
the
ende
With
a
declaration
of
prayer
/
annexeth
to
the
same
.
When
I
remember
the
fearthfull
threathninges
of
God
/
pro●oficed
against
Realmes
/
The
wrath
off
the
Lord
shall
not
be
turned
awaye
,
till
he
haue
fulfilled
the
thoughtes
of
his
hart
.
And
thus
leaue
I
them
(
as
of
whose
repentaunce
there
is
small
hope
)
to
the
handes
of
hym
that
shall
not
forget
their
horrible
blasphemis
spoken
in
dispitte
of
Christes
truthe
/
and
of
hys
trew
minister●
And
with
you
that
vnfainedly
morneth
for
the
greate
shipwrake
of
goddes
trew
relygion
/
purpose
I
to
communicat
suche
counsailer
/
and
admonicious
/
now
by
my
writinge
/
as
sometymes
it
pleased
God
/
I
dyd
proclaime
in
your
cares
.
The
ende
of
whiche
my
admonicion
is
/
that
euin
as
that
you
purpose
/
and
entend
to
auoid
Gods
vengeaunce
/
bothe
in
this
lyfe
/
and
in
the
lyfe
to
come
/
that
so
ye
auoid
and
flee
(
aswell
in
body
as
in
sprete
)
al
felowship
/
and
societye
with
Idolaters
in
their
Idolatrye
.
You
shrynke
(
I
know
)
euin
at
the
fyrst
.
But
yf
an
orator
/
had
the
matter
in
handlinge
/
he
wolde
proue
it
honeste
/
profytable
/
easye
/
and
necessary
to
be
done
/
and
in
euery
one
poynte
were
store
ynough
/
for
a
longe
oration
.
But
as
I
neuer
labored
to
perswade
any
man
in
matters
of
religion
(
God
I
take
to
record
in
my
conscience
)
except
by
the
very
simplicitie
&
plaine
infallable
truthe
of
Gods
worde
.
No
more
mynde
I
in
this
behaulfe
.
But
this
I
affyrme
/
that
to
fle
from
idolatrye
/
is
so
profytable
and
so
necessary
to
a
Christian
/
that
onles
he
so
do
/
all
worldly
profyth
turneth
to
his
perpetuall
disprofeit
/
and
condemnacion
.
Profijt
aperteyning
/
either
to
the
bodyes
/
or
to
the
soules
/
of
our selues
/
and
our
posteritie
/
corporall
commodities
consisteth
in
such
thinges
as
man
chiefly
couetith
for
the
body
/
as
ryches
/
estimacion
/
longe
lyfe
/
health
and
quietnes
in
earth
.
The
only
comfort
and
ioye
of
the
soule
is
God
by
his
worde
expelling
ingoraunce
/
synne
/
and
death
/
and
in
the
place
of
those
/
planting
trew
knowledge
of
hym selfe
/
and
with
thesame
iustice
and
lyfe
/
by
Christ
his
sonne
.
Yf
any
off
these
forsaide
moue
vs
/
then
of
necessitie
it
is
/
that
we
auoyde
Idolatry
/
for
playne
it
is
/
that
the
soule
hath
neither
lyfe
nor
comfort
/
but
by
God
alone
/
with
whome
Idolatours
/
Suspect
not
brethren
/
that
I
delyte
in
your
calamities
/
or
in
the
plagues
that
shal
fal
vpon
that
vnthankefull
nation
.
No
/
God
I
take
to
recorde
/
that
my
hart
mourneth
within
me
/
and
that
I
am
crucyet
for
remembraunce
of
youre
troubles
/
but
if
that
I
shoulde
ceasse
/
then
dyd
I
agaynste
my
conscience
/
as
also
agaynste
my
knowledge
/
The
worde
of
God
playnely
speaketh
/
No
brethern
.
The
Prophetes
are
the
interparatours
of
the
law
/
and
they
make
the
plagues
off
God
common
to
all
offendore
/
the
punyshment
euer
beginning
at
the
houshold
of
God
.
The
wicked
protestation
of
the
late
duke
off
Northuberlād
/
at
the
hour
of
his
death
/
agaynste
hys
owne
conscience
in
hope
off
●yfe
.
Esai
.
xiij
.
xv.xviij.cvij.xix
.
Ieremi.
l
lj
.
Ezech.
xxv
xxvi
.
●7
.
And
here
I
must
touche
a
poinct
off
that
deuillishe
confession
made
(
a
late
)
by
that
miserable
man
/
whose
name
for
sorow
I
can
not
recyte
.
This
argument
he
vseth
to
proue
the
doctrine
of
late
yeres
done
/
taught
amongest
you
/
to
be
wicked
/
Trobles
and
plagues
(
sayth
he
)
hath
folowed
the
same
/
not
only
here
in
England
/
but
also
in
Germany
/
as
he
willeth
you
to
marke
.
This
fragill
/
and
vaine
argument
at
this
tyme
/
no
otherwyse
will
I
labor
/
to
confute
/
then
by
plaine
scriptures
declaring
/
that
plagues
apertayneth
to
all
inobedient
/
beginninge
firste
/
where
Gods
mercies
hath
bene
offered
/
and
obstinatly
refused
/
&
that
may
aunswere
the
blynde
rage
of
ignoraunces
.
The
Prophetes
Esai
,
Ieremi
,
Ezechieli
,
after
they
had
proclaymed
plagues
to
fall
vppon
the
people
off
Israel
/
and
vpon
the
house
of
Iuda
/
prophecyeth
particularlye
againste
certeyn
nations
and
cyties
/
not
onely
adiacent
in
circute
about
Ierusalem
/
but
also
againste
suche
/
as
were
far
distant
/
as
against
Moah
,
Ammon
,
Palestina
,
Aegipt
,
Tirus
,
Damascus
,
and
Babilone
.
And
in
conclusion
generall
prophesies
/
are
spoken
against
all
inobedient
/
and
synfull
nations
/
as
in
the
.24
.
chapter
off
Esaye
plainly
apeareth
/
For
euery
nation
lyke
vnto
this
/
shal
I
punisshe
saith
the
Lord
of
hostes
/
with
thesame
agreeth
Amos
saing
:
The
eyes
of
the
Lord
are
vpon
euery
sinfull
nation
,
to
roote
it
out
of
the
earthe
.
These
and
many
mo
places
euidently
proueth
that
plagues
spoke
in
the
law
of
God
/
apertaineth
to
euery
rebellions
people
/
be
they
Iew
/
or
be
they
Gentile
/
Christians
intytel
/
or
Turkes
in
profession
/
And
the
grounde
off
the
Prophetes
/
was
thesame
/
I
haue
begonne
to
punisshe
in
the
house
where
my
name
is
incalled
/
and
shall
I
spare
the
rest
,
as
the
Lorde
wolde
saye
/
howe
can
my
iustice
permit
those
crymes
vnpunished
in
proude
contemptnors
/
that
neither
regardeth
me
/
nor
yet
my
lawe
/
seing
I
haue
not
spared
my
own
people
/
that
externally
beareth
some
reuerens
to
my
name
.
The
prophetes
off
God
wondering
at
so
manifest
iniquitie
iudged
that
suche
ingnorauncy
and
inobedience
was
only
amonges
the
rascals
sorte
off
men
/
and
therfore
he
sayth
:
They
haue
all
broken
the
yocke
,
they
haue
heaped
synne
vpon
synne
/
and
one
misschefe
vpon
another
/
from
the
least
vnto
the
moste
/
all
are
bent
vpon
auaryce
/
and
gape
for
lucre
/
from
the
priest
to
the
prophet
/
euery
man
dealth
deceatfully
.
What
reuerence
and
audience
was
geuen
vnto
preachers
/
this
laste
Lent
/
by
such
as
then
were
in
autoritie
/
their
owne
countinaunces
declared
assuredly
/
euen
suche
as
was
geuen
to
Ieremye
/
they
hated
suche
/
as
rebuked
their
vyce
/
and
stubbernlye
they
sayde
:
We
wil
not
amende
/
and
yet
howe
boldely
theyr
synnes
were
rebuked
/
suche
as
were
presente
/
can
witnes
with
me
/
almoste
there
was
none
/
who
dyd
not
prophesye
and
plainly
spake
the
plagues
that
are
begonne
/
and
assuredly
shall
ende
.
Mayster
Grindall
plainlye
spake
the
death
of
the
Kynges
maiestie
/
That
godly
and
feruent
man
mayster
Leuer
/
playnlye
spake
the
desolacion
off
thys
common
wealthe
.
Iudicium
domini
,
Iudicium
domini
.
But
to
our
matter
.
This
presidents
I
iudge
sufficient
to
proue
this
oure
age
to
haue
bene
/
&
yet
to
remayne
lyke
wicked
(
if
it
be
not
worse
)
with
the
tyme
of
Ieremye
.
Now
let
vs
searche
what
folowed
in
Iuda
?
Mischefe
vpon
mischefe
/
notwithstandinge
the
continuall
and
long
cryeng
of
the
prophetes
/
whil
fynally
God
in
his
anger
toke
away
good
king
Iosias
/
O
God
,
for
thy
greate
mercies
sake
,
let
neuer
thy
smal
and
troubled
flocke
/
within
the
realme
of
Englande
/
learn
in
experiens
.
But
in
all
those
trobles
/
no
repentaunce
appeared
/
as
by
the
prophet
ye
may
learne
/
for
thus
he
crieth
:
Thus
fayth
the
Lorde
:
Iehoiakim
shall
haue
no
sede
,
that
euer
shall
sit
vppon
the
seate
of
Dauid
.
Their
carion
shal
be
casten
to
the
heate
of
the
daye
/
and
to
the
fr●st
in
the
night
/
and
I
shal
viset
sayeth
the
Lord
the
iniquitie
of
hym
/
of
his
sede
and
of
hys
seruasites
/
and
I
shal
bring
vpon
them
/
vpon
the
dwellers
in
Ierusalem
and
vpon
all
Iuda
/
all
the
calamities
that
I
haue
spoken
agaynst
them
.
Albeit
/
when
these
wordes
were
spoken
and
written
/
so
they
were
contempned
/
that
they
d●●st
crye
/
Let
the
counsaill
of
the
holy
one
of
Israell
come
,
we
will
folow
the
deuises
of
our
owne
hartes
/
yet
no
worde
of
his
threatninges
were
spoken
in
vayne
/
for
after
many
plagues
susteyned
by
the
misschefes
father
/
the
wicked
and
myserable
sonne
in
the
thyrde
moneth
of
his
raigne
was
led
prysoner
to
Babylon
.
Whiche
great
abhominations
/
when
God
had
shewin
/
not
onlye
to
Ieremie
/
who
then
was
in
Ierusalem
/
but
also
to
Ezechiel
being
prisoner
in
Babylon
.
Their
bodies
being
seperated
/
in
prophecie
they
did
bothe
agre
/
that
hole
Israel
&
Iuda
should
be
destroied
.
Thus
writeth
Ezechiel
/
Ah
/
vpon
all
the
abhominations
of
the
house
of
Israel
/
they
shal
fal
by
the
swearde
/
by
pestilence
and
hunger
/
he
that
is
far
of
shall
dye
of
the
plagues
/
he
that
is
●ye
/
shal
fal
by
the
swearde
/
he
that
is
lefte
/
and
is
beseaged
/
shal
dye
by
hunger
/
and
I
shall
complet
my
wrath
vpon
them
.
A●d
Ieremie
sayth
:
Behold
/
I
wil
geue
this
citie
in
the
handes
of
the
Caldees
/
in
the
hande
of
Nabuchod●●ser
/
kyng
of
Babylon
/
who
shal
take
it
.
The
Caldees
shall
take
this
citie
and
shall
burne
it
with
fyre
:
Yea
/
if
you
had
kylled
al
the
hoste
of
the
Caldees
that
besageth
you
/
Iere
,
9.23
Ezec.
20.
Verely
/
euin
such
as
Pashur
&
his
counsail
iudgeth
mete
.
He
spake
against
the
temple
,
he
prophecied
mischief
against
the
citie
,
he
fainted
the
hartes
of
the
souldiours
,
and
of
the
people
,
but
principally
,
To
weke
/
the
fayth
of
their
forefathers
/
who
alwaies
rebelled
agaynst
God
.
And
therefore
he
was
reputed
a
heretycke
/
accused
of
sedicion
/
and
dampned
of
treason
.
Playne
preachinges
were
made
agaynste
all
that
he
had
spoken
/
and
suche
felicitie
was
promised
/
that
within
twoo
yeares
shoulde
the
yocke
of
Nabuchonosor
be
broken
from
the
neckes
of
all
people
and
the
vessels
of
the
lordes
house
(
together
with
all
prysoners
)
should
be
brought
agayne
to
Ierusalem
.
O
pleasing
and
blessed
amongst
the
people
were
such
prophetes
/
Ieremy
had
trobled
them
,
and
therefore
he
must
dye
.
To
pryson
shall
he
go
/
for
the
kyng
can
denye
nothing
to
his
princes
/
of
whome
Pashur
apeareth
/
to
haue
ben
chief
chauncelour
/
by
whom
was
not
only
the
kyng
/
but
also
the
hole
multitude
so
blinded
/
that
boldly
they
durst
crye
:
No
mischaunce
shall
come
too
vs
,
we
shall
neither
se
pestilens
nor
hunger
.
The
kynge
of
Babylon
shall
neuer
come
againste
thys
lande
.
O
thou
Lord
of
hostes
,
the
tryar
of
the
iust
,
thou
that
seith
the
reynes
and
the
hart
,
Let
me
se
thy
vengeaunce
taken
vpon
them
,
for
vnto
the
haue
I
referred
my
cause
▪
〈◊〉
this
prayer
was
most
fearful
to
his
enemyes
/
yf
they
had
sene
the
effiaccie
therof
so
by
thesame
was
the
prophet
assured
/
that
Goddes
wrath
was
kyndled
against
that
sinful
nation
&
that
it
shoulde
not
turne
backe
/
till
he
had
performed
the
cogitations
of
his
owne
hart
.
I
appeale
to
the
conscience
/
of
euery
indifferent
man
/
in
what
one
point
differeth
the
regiment
manners
/
Their
kyng
led
by
pestilence
priestes
/
who
guides
your
quene
/
it
is
not
vnknowen
/
Vnder
such
came
Idolatrie
to
the
highte
agayne
.
O
wold
to
God
/
that
the
worse
were
not
amongst
you
/
In
Ierusalem
was
Ieremie
persecuted
/
for
speakinge
the
truthe
/
&
for
rebuking
their
Idolatrie
.
What
pryson
within
London
/
tormenteth
not
some
trew
prophet
of
God
?
And
o
thou
doungeon
off
darkenes
where
that
Idole
of
late
dayes
was
fyrst
erected
(
thou
Tower
of
London
)
in
the
doth
moo
Ieremies
then
one
suffer
iniurye
&
trouble
/
Consider
(
deare
brethern
)
if
all
thinges
/
as
appertayninge
to
iniquitie
be
a
lyke
betwixte
Englande
and
Iuda
/
before
the
destruccion
therof
/
yea
/
Yf
Englande
be
worse
then
Iudea
was
in
those
dayes
/
seing
God
spared
not
them
/
shal
we
thinke
that
the
Lordes
vengeaunce
shal
slepe
/
mans
iniquitie
beyng
so
rype
?
No
deare
brethren
:
He
that
hath
vnderstandinge
muste
know
the
contrary
,
And
he
to
whome
the
Lordes
mouth
hath
spoken
/
must
shew
the
causes
/
why
the
lande
shal
be
waste
.
It
maye
offende
you
/
that
I
cal
Englande
worse
/
then
was
vnthankeful
Iudea
/
but
yf
good
and
euident
reasones
aduised
maye
take
place
/
then
I
feare
not
iudgement
.
No
deare
brethren
,
Yf
Idolatrie
continew
/
as
it
is
begonne
/
no
more
can
England
escape
Gods
vengeaunce
/
then
God
hym self
may
lease
his
iustice
.
And
therfore
(
dearly
beloued
in
our
sauiour
Iesus
Christ
)
Yf
profit
to
your selfe
or
to
your
posteritie
can
moue
you
any
thinge
/
then
muste
ye
avoide
and
fle
Idolatrie
.
For
if
the
Lordes
messengers
/
that
shal
be
sente
too
execute
hys
wrath
/
fynde
you
amongst
fylthie
Idolators
/
your
bodies
committing
lyke
abhomination
with
them
.
Ye
haue
no
warrant
that
ye
shall
escape
the
plagues
/
prepared
for
the
wicked
.
But
rather
it
is
to
be
feared
that
ye
shall
be
plagued
with
them
.
The
hole
trybe
of
Beniamin
,
perished
with
the
adulterers
/
&
yet
were
they
not
all
adulterers
in
faict
.
Because
men
knowing
the
iustice
of
God
,
(
sayeth
he
)
and
doing
the
contrary
are
worthy
of
death
/
not
only
those
that
doth
wickedly
/
but
also
suche
as
consenteth
to
thesame
.
But
now
to
the
subsequent
.
As
it
is
most
profytable
for
body
and
soule
to
auoyde
Idolatry
/
so
is
it
so
necessary
/
that
onles
we
so
do
/
we
refuse
to
be
in
leage
with
God
.
Exo.
xx
.
We
declare
ourself
to
haue
no
faythe
/
&
we
●enye
to
be
Gods
witnes
/
and
so
muste
he
of
this
iustice
expressed
in
his
worde
denye
vs
to
apertaine
to
hym
or
to
hys
kyngdom
.
And
then
(
alas
)
what
restith
for
vs
/
but
perpetuall
death
ordeined
for
those
that
wil
not
continew
in
leage
with
God
.
The
leage
betwene
God
&
vs
conteyneth
these
conditions
/
that
God
shall
be
our
God
/
and
we
shal
be
his
people
/
he
shal
communicat
with
vs
/
of
his
graces
&
goodnes
we
shal
serue
hym
in
bodye
&
soule
/
he
shall
be
our
sauegarde
from
death
and
damnacion
/
we
shal
sticke
too
hym
/
and
fle
from
all
straunge
Goddes
.
This
is
the
leage
in
making
whereof
we
swear
solempnedly
/
neuer
to
haue
felowship
with
any
religion
/
except
with
that
which
God
hath
auctoris●d
by
hys
manifest
worde
.
Yf
by
Gods
scriptures
these
presydents
be
so
playne
/
that
reasonably
no
man
can
de●ye
any
point
therof
.
Then
haue
I
good
hope
that
ye
wil
admitte
it
to
be
necessarie
/
that
you
auoide
Idolatry
/
yf
the
leage
betwene
God
and
you
shal
be
kept
sure
.
And
fyrst
it
is
to
be
obserued
/
that
Goddes
iustice
/
beyng
infinite
in
matters
of
religion
/
requireth
lyke
obediens
of
al
those
that
be
within
hys
leage
at
all
tymes
/
that
he
requireth
of
any
one
nation
/
or
particular
man
in
any
one
age
/
for
al
that
byde
with
in
his
leage
/
Sayng
let
vs
go
and
serue
other
Goddes
,
whome
thou
hast
not
knowen
.
&c.
Obey
hym
not
/
hear
hym
not
/
neither
yet
let
thy
eye
spare
hym
/
be
not
merciful
vnto
hym
/
nor
hyde
him
not
/
but
kyll
hym
/
let
thy
hand
be
the
fyrst
vpon
hym
/
that
suche
a
one
maye
be
kylled
/
and
then
the
handes
of
the
holy
people
stone
hym
with
stones
/
vntil
he
dye
.
And
likewise
commaundeth
he
to
be
donne
with
a
hole
citie
/
if
the
indwellers
therof
turne
backe
to
Idolatrie
/
addinge
also
/
that
the
citie
and
the
whole
spoyle
therof
shal
be
brent
.
That
no
portion
shal
be
saued
/
nor
yet
that
the
citie
shal
be
buylded
foreuer
again
because
it
is
accursed
of
God
.
Here
is
a
playne
declaracion
/
what
God
requyreth
of
them
that
wil
continew
in
leage
with
him
/
and
what
he
hath
dampned
by
his
exprest
wordes
.
And
do
we
esteme
(
beloued
brethren
)
that
the
immutable
God
will
wincke
at
our
Idolatrie
/
as
that
he
saw
it
not
:
seing
he
commaundeth
iudgement
to
be
executed
so
seuerly
against
Idolators
/
and
againste
suche
as
onely
prouoked
or
solisted
others
to
Idolatrie
/
that
neither
should
blood
nor
affinitie
neither
multitude
nor
ryches
/
saue
suche
as
offendeth
/
neither
yet
that
we
should
counsayle
their
offences
/
but
that
we
should
be
the
fyrst
that
should
accuse
brother
/
sonne
/
doughter
/
or
wyfe
/
and
why
?
because
he
entendeth
(
saith
Moyses
)
to
bring
the
from
the
Lorde
thy
God
/
Who
led
thy
furth
from
the
land
of
Egipte
/
and
therfore
let
hym
dye
/
that
all
Israel
hearing
/
maye
feare
/
and
presumed
not
after
too
commit
the
lyke
abhomination
.
Let
nothing
apertayninge
to
suche
a
man
or
citie
/
cleaue
vnto
thy
hande
/
that
the
Lord
may
turn
from
the
furor
of
his
wrath
&
be
moued
ouer
thy
with
most
tender
mercy
and
affeccion
/
and
that
he
maye
multiplye
thy
/
as
he
hathe
sworne
vnto
thy
fathers
.
I
will
not
offer
their
drinke
offeringes
of
bloud
,
neyther
yet
will
I
take
their
name
into
my
mouthe
,
&
Paule
sayth
:
You
maye
not
be
partakers
of
the
Lordes
table
,
and
of
the
table
of
deuils
,
you
may
not
drinke
the
Lordes
cup
/
and
the
cup
of
deuils
.
As
these
two
places
/
of
scriptur
plainly
resolueth
the
former
question
/
so
do
they
confirme
that
which
is
before
sayd
.
That
the
leag
betwixt
vs
and
God
requireth
/
auoydinge
off
all
Idolatrye
.
For
Dauid
sayeth
:
I
will
not
take
their
names
in
my
mouth
.
As
he
wolde
saye
/
so
odious
are
the
names
of
false
&
vaine
Goddes
/
that
the
mencion
of
them
is
righteouslye
compared
to
stinckinge
donge
/
&
vile
carion
/
whiche
neither
can
be
eaten
/
neither
yet
smellid
without
displeasur
of
suche
that
hath
not
lost
the
iudgemente
of
their
sences
/
&
therfore
sayeth
Dauid
/
I
wil
not
defyle
me
mouth
with
them
/
that
is
/
I
wil
neuer
speake
one
fauorable
worde
of
them
.
I
thinke
much
lesse
/
wolde
he
haue
croched
and
kneled
before
them
for
anye
mans
pleasure
.
Aduert
brethren
/
Not
so
deare
brethren
,
not
so
,
The
temple
of
God
hath
nothing
to
do
with
Idols
.
The
cause
expresseth
Dauid
in
their
wordes
:
The
Lorde
hym selfe
is
my
portion
and
my
enheritaunce
.
Greate
is
the
cause
/
yf
it
be
deaply
considered
.
Dauid
illuminated
by
the
holy
Ghost
seyth
euen
the
selfe
same
thing
/
which
before
we
haue
aleaged
of
the
Apostles
wordes
/
that
God
will
not
parte
spoyle
with
the
deuil
/
promitting
hym
to
haue
the
seruaunt
of
the
body
/
&
he
too
stande
contente
with
the
soule
/
harte
and
mynde
.
No
brethren
/
Dauid
marketh
this
/
the
fundament
&
reason
/
why
/
he
wil
neither
offer
sacrefice
to
Idols
/
neither
yet
defyle
hys
mouthe
with
their
names
/
because
(
sayeth
he
)
the
Lorde
is
my
porcion
,
These
are
thy
porcion
,
and
Ieremy
likewise
,
in
mockinge
of
them
sayth
/
let
thy
bedfellowes
deliuer
thy
/
call
vpon
them
/
and
let
them
heare
thy
/
thou
hast
committed
fornicacion
&
whordome
with
stocke
and
stone
.
Now
restith
to
shew
that
in
haunting
Idolatrie
/
we
declare
oure selfes
too
be
withoute
fayth
/
and
dothe
denye
to
beare
witnesse
vnto
God
/
but
that
fayth
purgeth
the
hart
/
I
trust
none
of
you
will
denye
.
But
whether
that
inwarde
fayth
requyreth
an
eternal
confession
/
and
yf
a
man
maye
not
haue
faythe
/
and
yet
doo
in
ceremonies
of
the
Churche
/
as
the
worlde
dothe
/
herein
perchaunce
you
doubte
.
As
too
the
fyrste
the
Apostle
aunswereth
in
these
woordes
/
And
Dauid
sayth
:
I
haue
beleued
/
&
therefore
I
haue
spoken
/
but
I
was
sore
trobled
/
as
Dauid
wolde
saye
/
I
wolde
not
counsaile
the
confession
of
my
faith
/
howbeit
/
troble
did
ensew
thesame
.
Thus
the
holy
Ghost
ioyneth
fayth
and
confession
/
as
thinges
that
be
inseperable
the
one
from
the
other
/
and
therefore
dare
I
not
take
vpon
me
to
disceauer
them
/
but
muste
saye
/
that
where
trew
faith
is
/
there
is
also
confession
of
the
same
/
Now
is
it
to
be
considered
/
if
this
tyme
requireth
the
confession
of
our
faith
.
You
are
my
witnesses
,
The
Goddes
that
made
neither
heauen
neither
earthe
,
shall
perish
from
the
earthe
/
and
from
vnder
the
heauen
.
Here
is
to
be
obserued
/
as
Ihon
Caluine
/
that
singular
instrumente
off
God
moste
diligently
noteth
.
That
the
reste
of
the
prophetes
worke
was
written
in
the
Hebrew
tounge
/
Euery
man
that
is
not
degenerated
too
the
nature
of
a
brute
beaste
/
will
appeare
to
beare
suche
loue
to
his
chyldren
/
that
to
leaue
them
riche
/
in
rest
/
and
in
good
state
/
he
paciently
will
suffer
troubles
/
and
without
grudge
will
doo
many
thinges
/
that
otherwise
are
contrary
to
hys
owne
pleasure
.
And
with
my
hart
I
wish
to
God
/
that
the
perfection
of
this
were
more
deaply
grounded
in
mans
hart
/
I
meane
very
loue
/
The
chief
scholemayster
,
(
the
holy
Ghost
excepted
)
of
the
age
folowing
/
is
the
worke
practesies
&
lief
of
the
forefathers
/
where
vnto
commonly
we
se
the
chyldren
so
addict
&
bound
/
&
especially
/
if
it
be
in
Idolatrie
.
That
God
cryeng
by
the
mouthes
of
his
messingers
/
haue
muche
to
do
/
to
ryffe
or
plucke
any
man
backe
from
their
forefathers
footesteppes
.
Now
if
that
you
altogether
refusinge
/
Consider
deare
brethren
/
that
how
muche
more
dolerous
it
is
to
be
tormented
in
hel
/
then
to
suffer
troble
in
earth
/
to
be
depriued
of
heauenly
ioye
/
then
to
be
robbed
of
transitory
ryches
.
To
fall
in
the
handes
of
the
lyuing
God
/
then
to
abyde
mans
vayne
/
&
vncertein
displeasure
.
So
muche
more
fearfull
&
daungerous
it
is
/
to
obey
Idolatrie
or
dissembling
to
consent
too
that
abhomination
/
then
auoydinge
the
same
/
to
suffer
what
inconueniens
may
folow
therupon
by
mans
tyranny
.
O
be
not
like
to
Esau
/
that
solde
and
lost
his
byrthright
for
a
mease
of
potage
.
I
am
not
preiudiciall
too
Gods
mercies
/
as
that
suche
as
after
shall
repent
/
shall
not
fynd
grace
.
God
forbidde
/
for
here
in
am
I
most
assuredly
perswaded
.
That
in
what
so
euer
houre
a
synner
shall
repente
/
God
shall
not
remember
one
of
hys
iniquities
/
but
albeit
/
his
offences
were
as
redde
as
Skarlette
/
they
shall
be
made
as
whyte
as
snowe
.
But
consider
dearly
beloued
brethren
,
When
thus
earnestly
he
calleth
&
threatneth
not
withoute
cause
.
How
long
will
you
halte
on
bothe
partes
,
you
maye
not
bothe
be
partakers
of
the
cup
of
the
Lorde
/
and
of
the
cup
of
the
deuel
.
He
that
denieth
me
before
men
/
I
will
denye
hym
before
my
father
/
he
that
refuseth
not
hym selfe
/
&
taketh
vp
hys
crosse
&
folow
me
/
is
not
worthy
of
me
.
No
man
putting
his
hande
to
the
plough
/
&
lokinge
backwarde
is
worthie
of
the
kyngdome
of
God
.
And
Paule
to
the
Hebrewes
only
meaneth
of
this
synne
/
where
he
sayeth
:
Be
not
deceaued
brethren
,
for
albeit
moste
/
trewe
it
is
/
that
who
soo
euer
incalleth
the
name
of
the
Lorde
/
shal
be
saued
/
Yet
lyke
trew
it
is
/
that
whosoeuer
incalleth
the
name
of
the
Lorde
/
shall
auoyde
and
esschewe
all
iniquitie
/
&
that
whosoeuer
contine
with
in
open
iniquitie
/
thesame
man
incalleth
not
the
name
of
the
Lord
/
neither
hath
God
any
respecte
to
hys
prayer
/
But
it
grudgeth
the
flesshe
(
saye
you
)
for
feare
of
the
torment
/
let
it
do
the
owne
nature
and
office
/
for
so
must
it
do
tyll
it
be
burdened
with
Christes
crosse
/
and
then
no
doubte
/
shall
God
sende
suche
comforte
/
as
now
we
looke
not
for
.
Let
vs
not
torne
backe
from
Christe
/
albeit
the
fleshe
complaine
/
and
feareth
the
torment
.
Wonder
it
is
that
the
waye
too
lyfe
is
so
fearfull
vnto
vs
,
considering
that
so
greate
a
number
of
our
brethren
/
hath
passed
before
vs
in
at
the
same
gatte
/
that
we
so
muche
alhorre
.
Hath
not
the
moste
parte
of
the
sainctes
of
God
entred
in
to
their
rest
/
by
tormente
&
trobles
of
whome
witnesseth
Paule
/
some
were
racked
/
in
neade
,
tribulation
&
vexation
,
And
therfore
dearly
beloued
in
the
Lorde
,
As
that
you
purpose
too
auoyde
the
vengeaunce
of
God
/
that
sodenly
shall
strike
all
obstinate
Idolatours
.
As
that
you
wolde
hane
the
leage
betwene
God
and
you
to
stande
sure
/
and
as
that
you
will
declare
your selfes
to
haue
true
faith
/
withoute
whiche
no
man
euer
shall
entre
in
lyfe
.
And
fynally
/
as
that
you
wil
leaue
the
true
knowledge
of
God
/
in
possession
to
youre
chyldren
.
Auoyde
Idolatrie
/
&
all
participation
thereof
/
for
it
is
so
odious
before
Gods
presens
/
that
not
onely
dothe
he
punishe
the
inuentours
/
and
fyrste
offendours
/
but
oftentymes
theyr
posteritie
are
stryken
with
blindenes
and
dasynes
of
mynde
.
The
God
of
all
comforte
&
consolation
for
Christ
Iesus
/
his
sonnes
sake
/
graunt
that
this
simple
&
plaine
admonition
/
yea
/
rather
the
warning
of
the
holy
ghoste
maye
be
receaued
/
&
accepted
of
you
with
no
les
feare
&
obedience
then
I
haue
written
it
vnto
you
with
vnfayned
loue
/
and
sorowfull
hart
/
&
then
I
doubte
not
/
but
we
shall
be
comforted
/
when
all
suche
as
now
motesteth
vs
/
shall
trymble
&
shake
by
the
comming
of
our
Lord
Iesus
/
whose
omnipotent
sprete
perserue
and
kepe
you
vndefiled
bodye
and
soule
to
the
ende
.
Amen
.