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A Brief Exhortation To England
A Brief Exhortation To England
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To the realm of England, and to all estates within the same, John Knox wishes true repentance to be given from God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, with the Spirit of wisdom, discretion, and true understanding.
[1]After I had considered, what from the beginning have been the great mercies of God towards his afflicted people; and also what have been his severe judgments executed against such as, either preferring darkness to light, did follow the devices and inventions of men,[2] either that, enraged by the malice of Satan, have declared themselves open enemies to God and to his verity revealed;[3] I thought it my duty (in few words) to require of you, and that in God's name, O England in general, the same repentance and true conversion unto God that I have required of those to whom before particularly I wrote. For, in very deed, when in dolour of heart I wrote this former letter, I neither looked, nor could believe, that the Lord Jesus would so suddenly knock at your gate (Rev. 3), or call upon you in your open streets (Prov. 1), offering himself to pardon your iniquity: yea, to enter into your house, and so to abide and make his habitation with you (John 14), who so disobediently had rejected his yoke, so disdainfully had trodden under foot the blood of his testament (Heb. 10:29), and so cruelly had murdered those that were sent to call you to repentance (Luke 11-12). This your horrible ingratitude considered, I did rather look for punishments and plagues universally to have been poured forth, than for mercy (by the sound of his trumpet) so suddenly to have been offered to any within that miserable isle.
[1]After I had considered, what from the beginning have been the great mercies of God towards his afflicted people; and also what have been his severe judgments executed against such as, either preferring darkness to light, did follow the devices and inventions of men,[2] either that, enraged by the malice of Satan, have declared themselves open enemies to God and to his verity revealed;[3] I thought it my duty (in few words) to require of you, and that in God's name, O England in general, the same repentance and true conversion unto God that I have required of those to whom before particularly I wrote. For, in very deed, when in dolour of heart I wrote this former letter, I neither looked, nor could believe, that the Lord Jesus would so suddenly knock at your gate (Rev. 3), or call upon you in your open streets (Prov. 1), offering himself to pardon your iniquity: yea, to enter into your house, and so to abide and make his habitation with you (John 14), who so disobediently had rejected his yoke, so disdainfully had trodden under foot the blood of his testament (Heb. 10:29), and so cruelly had murdered those that were sent to call you to repentance (Luke 11-12). This your horrible ingratitude considered, I did rather look for punishments and plagues universally to have been poured forth, than for mercy (by the sound of his trumpet) so suddenly to have been offered to any within that miserable isle.
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