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A04931	A sermon preached by Iohn Knox minister of Christ Iesus in the publique audience of the Church of Edenbrough, within the realme of Scotland, vpon Sonday, the. 19. of August. 1565 For the which the said Iohn Knoxe was inhibite preaching for a season. To this is adioyned an exhortation vnto all the faythfull within the sayde realme, for the reliefe of suche as faythfully trauayle in the preaching of Gods worde. Written by the same Iohn Knoxe, at the commaundement of the ministerie aforesayd.	Knox, John, ca. 1514-1572.	1566 (1566)	STC 15075; ESTC S108139	37,230	132

A SERMON preached by Iohn Knox Minister of Christ Iesus in the Publique audience of the Church of Edenbrough within the Realme of Scotland vpon Sonday the .19 of August .1565 For the which the said Iohn Knoxe was inhibite preaching for a season 1. Timoth. 4. ¶ The time is come that men can not abyde the Sermon of veritie nor holsome doctrine To this is adioyned an exhortation vnto all the faythfull within the sayde Realme for the reliefe of suche as faythfully trauayle in the preaching of Gods worde Written by the same Iohn Knoxe at the commaundement of the ministerie aforesayd Imprinted Anno. 1566. IOHN KNOXE THE seruaunt of Iesus Christ Inpreaching of his holy Euangell to the beneuolent Reader desireth grace and peace with the spirite of righteous Iudgement WONDER NOT christian Reader that of al my studye and trauayle within the scriptures of GOD these twentye yeares I haue set forth nothing in exponing anye portion of scripture except this onely rude and indigest Sermon preached by me in the publicke audiēce of the church of Edingbrough the day and yeare aboue mēcioned That I did not in writ communicate my iudgemēt vpon the scriptures I haue euer thought and yet thinke my selfe to haue most iust reason For cōsidering my selfe rather cald of my God to instruct the ignorant comfort the sorowfull confirme the weake and rebuke the proud by tong liuelye voyce in these most corrupt dayes thā to compose bokes for the age to come seeing that so much is written that by men of most singuler cōdition and yet so little well obserued I decreed to containe my selfe within the bondes of that vocation wherevnto I founde my selfe especially called I dare not denie lest that in so doing I should be iniurious to the giuer but that God hath reuealed vnto me secretes vnknowen to the worlde and also that he hath made my tong a trumpet to forwarne realmes and nations yea certaine great personages of mutations and chaunges when no such thinges were feared nor yet was appearing a portion wherof can not the world denie be it neuer so blind to be fulfilled and the rest alas I feare shall followe with greater expedition and in more full perfection than my sorowfull heart desireth These reuelations and assurances not withstanding I did euer absteyne to commit anye thing to writ contented onely to haue obeyed the charge of him who commaunded me to cry If anye then will aske to what purpose this onely sermon is set forth greater matters omitted I answere to let such as Sathan hath not altogether blinded see vpon how small occasions great offence is nowe conceyued This sermon is it for the which from my bed I was called before the Councell and after long reasoning I was by some forbidden to preach in Edingbrough so long as the King and Queene were in the towne This sermon is it that so offēdeth such as would please the Court and yet will not appeare to be enimies to the truth that thei dare affirme that I haue exceded the bonds of Gods messanger I haue therfore faithfully committed vnto writ what soeuer I could remember might haue beene offensiue in that sermon To the ende that aswell the enimies of Gods truth as the professors of the same may eyther note vnto me wherin I haue offended or at the least ceasse to condempne me before they haue conuicted me by Gods manifest worde If any man thinke it easy vnto me to mitigate by my pen the inconsiderate sharpenesse of my tongue and so can not men freely iudge of that my sermon I answere that neyther am I so impudent that I will study to abuse the worlde in this great light neyther yet so voyde of feare of my God that I will auowe a lye in his owne presence And no lesse doe I esteeme it to be a lye to deny or cōceile that which in his name I haue once pronounced than to affirme that GOD hath spoken when his worde assures me not of the same for in the publike place I consulte not with flesh and bloud what I shall propone to the people but as the spirit of my God who hath sent me and vnto whome I must answere moueth me so I speake and when I haue once pronounced threatnings in his nāe howe vnpleasant soeuer they be to the world I dare no more deny thē than I dare deny that God hath made me his messinger to forwarne the inobedient of their assured destruction At that sermō were auditours vnto me not onely professors of the truth and such as fauor me but rancke papistes dissembled Hipocrites no small number of couetous clawbaks of the new court Now I will appeale the conscience of them all as they will aunswere in the presēce of the eternal god that eyther they beare me record now writing the truth or els note vnto me the sentences offensiue then by me pronounced now ommitted in writting for in Gods presence I protest that so far as memorie would serue me I haue written more vehemētly than in the action I spake and pronounced but of purpose I haue omitted persuasions and exhortations which then were made for alluring of suche vnto the feare of God whom gladly I would haue pleased if so I could haue done not haue betrayed the manifest truth of my God The Lorde be mercifull vnto me that I did not more fullye expresse whatsoeuer his holy spirit layde before me in that text which I am assured the indifferent reader shal think I haue but slenderlye handeled all circumstances being cōnsidered O Lord for thy great name sake giue vnto vs Princes and rulers that delight in thy truth that loue vertue hate impietie and that desire rather to be roundely taught to their saluation than deceyueably flattered to their euerlasting confusion Amen At Edingbrough the .19 of September .1565 Isaias .26 Chap. verse 13. 13 O Lorde our God other Lordes beside thee haue ruled vs but we will remēber thee onely and thy name 14 The dead shal not lyue neyther shal the dead arise bicause thou hast visited and scattered them and destroyed all their memorie 15 Thou hast increased the nation O Lorde thou hast increased the nation thou art made glorious thou hast enlarged all the coastes of the earth 16 Lorde in trouble haue they visited thee they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was vpon them 17 Like as a woman with childe that draweth nere to the trauaile is in sorrowe and cryeth in her paines so haue we beene in thy sight O Lorde 18 We haue conceyued we haue borne in paine as though we shuld haue brought winde there was no helpe in the forth neyther did the inhabitants of the earth worlde fall 19 Thy deade men shall liue euen with my bodye shall they rise awake and sing ye that dwell in dust for thy dewe is as the dew of herbes and the earth shall cast out the dead 20 Come my people enter thou into thy