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Página 37 - Scotland are over- strong, and control the king, they must be weakened and brought low by stirring up a party against them, and, the king being equal and indifferent, both shall be fain to flee to him. But, sir, if God's wisdom be the only true wisdom, this will prove mere and mad folly...
Página 97 - I am come here this day to lay down my life for adhering to the truths of Christ, for which I am neither afraid nor ashamed to suffer. Nay, I bless the Lord that ever he counted me worthy, or enabled me to suffer...
Página 37 - I must tell you, that there are two kings and two kingdoms. There is Christ and his kingdom the Kirk, whose subject King James the Sixth is, and of whose kingdom he is not a king, nor a head, nor a lord, but a member...
Página 9 - Evangel and sacraments to His people. We shall maintain them, nourish them, and defend them, the whole Congregation of Christ and every member thereof, at our whole...
Página 66 - They suffered," says an author already quoted, " extremities that tongue cannot describe, and which heart can hardly conceive of, from the dismal circumstances of hunger, nakedness, and the severity of the climate — lying in damp caves, and in hollow clefts of the naked rocks, without shelter, covering, fire, or food : none durst harbour, entertain, relieve, or speak to them, upon pain of death. Many, for venturing to receive them, were forced to fly to them, and...
Página 92 - God, but also grinded the faces of the poor ; so that oppression, perjury, and bloodshed, were to be found in their skirts. Upon this he was carried from the bar, on a hurdle drawn backwards, to the place of execution at the cross of Edinburgh.
Página 9 - The which our duty being well considered, we do promise, before the majesty of God and His Congregation, that we (by His grace) shall with all diligence continually apply our whole power, substance, and our very lives, to maintain, set forward, and establish the most blessed Word of God and His Congregation...
Página 101 - Parliament, will settle by law that church government in this kingdom which is most agreeable to the inclinations of the people.
Página 90 - But, said I, I have told you already that he has unkinged himself, and so have ye degraded yourselves from being princes. Q. If the king were here, what would you say, Sir ? A. I know how I ought to speak to the king, if he were king ; Sir...
Página 90 - Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god : their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.

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