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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00239	Heir followeth the coppie of the ressoning which was betuix the abbote of Crosraguell and John Knox, in Mayboill concern ing [sic] the masse, in the yeare of God, a thousand fiue hundreth thre scoir and two yeares.	Knox, John,; Kennedy, Quintin, 1520-1564.	1563 (1563)	STC 15074; ESTC S93406	46,767	88

Heir followeth the coppie of the ressoning which was betuix the Abbote of Crosraguell and Iohn Knox in Mayboill concerning the masse in the yeare of God a thousand fiue hundreth thre scoir and two yeares Apocalips xxij For I protest vnto euerie man that heareth the wordes of the prophecie of this boke If any mā shall adde vnto these thinges God shall adde vnto him the plagues that are written in this boke Imprinted at Edinburgh by Robert Lekpreuik and are to be solde at his hous at the nether bow Cum priuilegio 1563. Iohn Knox vnto the reader wisheth grace mercie and peace from God the Father and from our Lorde Iesus Christe with the spirit of righteous iudgement ❧ AFter that the Prophet Isayas in great vehemencie had rebuked the vanitie of Idolles and Idolaters as in the 40. Isa 40 and 41. and 41. chapters of his prophecie doeth appear at last he bursteth forth in these wordes Let them bring forth there Gods saeth he that they may shaw vnto vs thinges that are to come or let them declare vnto vs thinges that haue bene done before c. Shaw thinges that are to come that we may vnderstād you to be Gods let you do ether good or euill that we may declare it By which wordes the Prophet doeth as it were in mockage prouoke Idolaters and the Idoles to produce for them selues some euident testimonies by the which mē might be assured that in them was power and that there religion had approbation of God which when they could not do he is bold to prononce this sentence Behold ye are of nothing Isa 41. and your making is of nothing abomination hath chosen you In which wordes the Prophet damneth bothe the Idoles the Idolaters The Idoles because they can declare nothing to proue any power or wertue to be in them why they should be worshipped as Gods And the Idolaters because from Gods month they could bring no assurance of there addulterat and vsurped religion If this reasoning of the Prophet had sufficient strength in his aige to shaw the vanitie of the Idoles and the phrenetick foolishnes of suche as worshipped them then may the godlie this day moste assuredly conclude against the great Idole presented by the Papistes to be worshipped in there masse and against the patrons of the same that it and they are vaine foolish odious and abominable before God It because it hath mo makers then euer had the Idoles amongest the Gentiles and yet hath no greater power then they had Albeit it hath bene worshipped as God him self And they because they worshipped there owne imagination and the workmanship of there own hādes without any assurāce of God or of his word If any think that I speak more liberally then I am able to proue let him consider what makers the Idoles of the Gentiles had and what makers the God of bread hath And then let the power of bothe be cōpared and let me be rebuked if I speak not the treuth The Prophet in discription of there vanities maketh these gries The earth bringeth forth the tree it groweth by moistour and natural wacknes it is cutted doun by the hand of the hew ●t A parte thereof is burnt a parte spent in vses necessarie to man an other parte chosen to be made an Idole This is formed to the licknes of man or woman and then set vp and worshipped as a God All these and some mo shall we find to assist concurre in the making of this great God of bread The wheat is sowen and nourished in the earth rain dew and heat bring it to maturitie The reaper or scherer cutteth it doune the carte or fled drawen by hors or some other beast draweth it to the barne or to the barnȝaird The tasker or the foot of the ox tradeth it out The fan deliuereth it from the chaff The millar and the milstones by the help of wind or watter maketh it to be meall The smith maketh the yrnes that giues to that God his lenth and breaid licknes and form The fyne substance of that God is nether wood gold nor siluer but watter meal made ī maner of a drāmock And then must the workmen take good hede to there hand For if the fyre be to hote that Gods skin must be burnt if the yrnes be euill dight his face wil be blecked if in making the roundnes the ring be broken then must an oher of his fellowes receaue that honor to be made a God and the crased or cracked miserable caik that ones was ī hope to be made a God must be giuen to a babby to play him withall And yet is not all the danger past for if there be not an anoynted preist to play his parte aright all the formar artificers haue lost there laboure for without him that God can not be made yea if he haue not intention to cōsecrate the fashioned God remaueth bread and so the blind people committ Idolatrie These are the artificers and workmen that trauell in making of this God I think as many in nomber as the Prophet reciteth to haue trauelled in making of the Idoles And if the power of bothe shal be compared I think they shal be found in all thinges equall except that the God of bread is subiect vnto mo dangers then were the Idoles of the Gentilles Men made them Men make it They were deaf and dum it can not speak hear nor see Brieflie in infirmitie they wholie aggre except that as I haue said the poore God of bread is moste miserable of all other Idoles For according to there matter whereof they are made they will remaine without corruptiō many yeares But within one year that God will putrifie then he must be burnt They can abyde the vehemencie of the wind frost rain or snow But the wind will blow that God to the sea the rain or the snow wil make it dagh again yea which is most of all to be feared that God is a pray if he be not wel kept to rattes and mise For they will desyre no better denner then white rounde Gods ynew But o then what becometh of Christes natural bodie by myrackle it flies to the heauen againe if the papists teach treulie for how sone soeuer the mouse takes hold so sone flieth Christ away letteth hir gnow the bread A bold and puissant mouse but a feble and miserable God Yet wold I ask a question whether hath the preist or the mouse greater power by his wordes it is made a God by hir teith it ceaseth to be a God Let them auise and then answer If any think that I oght not to mock that which the world so long hath holden and great Princes yet holde in so great veneration I answer that not onelie I but also all godlie oght not onelie to mock but also to curse and detest whatsoeuer is not God and yet vsurpeth the name power and honor of God And also that we oght bothe