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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11748	The ordour and doctrine of the generall faste appointed be the generall assemblie of the kirkes of Scotland, halden at Edinburgh the 25. day of December. 1565 ...	Church of Scotland. Presbytery of England.; Knox, John, ca. 1514-1572.; Craig, John, 1512?-1600.	1566 (1566)	STC 22041; ESTC S113445	34,568	114

oppressing of the poore labourers of the groūd for his defence is ready I may do with my owen as best pleaseth me The Merchand is iust yneugh in his owen conceat If before men he can not be conuict of thist and deceat The Ar●ificer and Craftisman thinketh him self fre before God albeit that he nether worke sufficient stuffe nor yet sell for reasonable price The worlde is euil sayeth he and how can men liue if they do not as vther do And thus doeth eueri● mā leane vpone the iniquitie of another and thinketh him self sufficientlie excused when that he meitteth Craft with Craft repul seth back violence ether with deceat or els with open iniurie Let vs be assured deare brethrene that these be the sinnes which heretofore haue prouoked God not onlie to plague but also to distroy and vtterlie ouerthrowe stronge Realmes and flourishing common wealthes Now seing that the iustice and Iudgementes of our God abyde for euer and that he hath solempnedlie pronounced ▪ that eue●ri● Realme Nation or Ci●tie that sinneth as did Iuda and Ierasalem shalbe like wise punished ●et that fearefull distruction th●t came vpone them into the whiche aster honger and pest the sworde deuo red without discretion the ryche and poore the Noble and those that were of basse degre the yong and olde the Preistes and Prophetes yea the Matrones Virgines eschaped not the day of that sharp visitation Let their punishment we say prouoke vs to repentāce and so no dout we shall finde fauour in the eyes of our God albeit that he hath begune to showe v●to vs ●uident signes of his displeasure iustlie conceaued against vs. But as God forbide if we mocke his Messingers and dispyse his wordes till that th●●r be no remeadie as they did Then can we whome God hath rased vp to instruct and forewarne yow do nothing but take witnesse of heauen and earth yea and of your owen conscience that we haue faithfullie instructed yow in the ryght way of God as well as concerning his trew worshipping as in doing of your dewties one to another And also that we haue fore warned yow of the plague● to come ●irste by our tounges and now by our pen for a perpetuall memoriall to the posteritie th●t shall follow Who shall glorifie God ether for your conuersion or els for your iust condemnation and seueire punishementes if ye continew inobedient To prescriue to euerie man his dewtie in particul●re we can not because we knowe not whereintill euerie man and euerie ●state particularlie offendeth but we must remit euerie estate and euerie mā in his vocation to the examinatiō of his owen conscience And that according as God commandeth in his hole Law an I as Christ Iesus requireth that suche as shall possesse the Kingdome with him shall do Which is whatsoeuer sayeth he that ye wolde men shulde do vnto yow do ye the lyke vnto them By this reule whiche the Author of all equitie iustice and policie h●th established Send we the Earles Lordes Barrons and gentilmen to trye their owen cōsciences whether that they wolde be content that they shuld be ●ntreated if God had made them huseband men and laubowrers of the ground as they haue entreated and presentlie 〈◊〉 entreat suche as some tymes had a moderate and resonable life vnder their pred●cessours Whether we say that they wolde be content that their steadinges and malinges should be rased from male to ferme from one ferme to two so going vpward till that for pouertie the Ancient ●aubourers are compelled to leaue the ground in the handes of the Lord. If with this entreatment they wolde be cōtent we appeale their owen conscience And if they thinke that they wolde not then in Godes Name we require them to begin to reforme them selucs and to remember that it is not we but that it is Christ Iesus that so ●raueth of them And vnto the same reule we send Iudges Lawers Merchandes Artisicers and ●●nallie euen the verray laubourers of the ground them selues That euerie one in his vocation may trye how iustlie vprightlie mercyfullie he dealeth with his Nighboure And if he ●inde his conscience accused by the former sentence of our Master let him cal for grace that he may not onclic repent for the bypast but also amend in tymes to cume and so shall their Fasting and prayers be acceptable vnto God If men think that we require the thing that is vn possible For what were this els But to reforme the face of the who●e earth Which neuer wes nor vet shalbe till that the righteous King and Iudge appeare for the restauration of all thinges We answer that we speak not to the godles multitude nether yet to suche as are mockers of Godes Iudgementes whose portion is in this life and for whome the fyre of hell which now they mock is assuredli● prepared But we speak to such as haue professed the Lord Iesus with vs who haue communicated with his blissed Sacramentes haue renounced Idolatrie and haue awowed them selues to be new creatures in Iesus Christ in whome they are ingrafted as liuclie brāches apt to bringfurth good frute Now why it shuld be thought vnpossible that these men of what vocation that euer they be shulde begin to expresse in their liues that which in worde they haue publictlie professed We se no good reasone vnles that we wolde say that it is vnpossible that God shall now work in men of this age as we read that he hath wrought in men before vs and that were blasphemie Seing that the hand of our God is no more shortned towardes vs th●n th●t it hath bene towardes those that haue past before vs. At Godes semple comm●ndement Abraham left his Fathers hous natiue countrie Moyses pre●erred the condition of the people of Israell euen in their greatest afliction to the ryches and glorie of Pharose Courte Dauid vpon the vnction of Samuell did pacientlie abyde the persecution of Saul many yeares Zacheus at an dennar with Christ Iesus w●s not onelie content to restore whatsoeuer he had before defrauded but also to giue the half of all his substance to the sustentation of the poore And the faithfull in the dayes of the Apostles solde their possessions and ministrat vnto the indigent None of these excellent workes craue we of the faithfull in our age but onely those without the which the Spirite of Sanctification can not be knowen to be in man to wit that euerie man speak the trueth with his brother that none oppresse nor defraude another in any busynes that the bowels of mercy may appeare amongs suche as God hath called to his knoweledge and finally that we altogether that professe the Lord Iesus and do abhorre Idolatrie abhorre also all kynde of impietie studying to habound in all good workes and to shyne as lyghtes in the middest of this wicked generation Which if we do