Blair Collection > Book of Common Order, commonly called John Knox's Liturgy

THIOGHLAICTHE.
romhaind, mar do bhi Geidion, agas
Samuel, agas Daibhith, agas Ifafat, agas
Efafias, agas Iofias : agas cuid eile dona
breitheamhnaibh, agas dona righaibh
ara bfuil mafia, agas toibheim adtimna
dhe odheachtadh an fbirad naoimh : A
fe adhbhar fa dtarrla dhaibh bheith fan
athais, agas fan imdheargadh fin odhia,
nar thuigeadar go mbeanfadh daibh,
aire do thabhairt don ladh dhiadha, no
go raibhe fe dfiachaibhorra, no ma dho
thuigeadar e, gur leigeadar fa lar an
churum bhudh coir dhoibh do dhe-
namh taireis athuigfeana. Damadb ail
lind eachtradha no fgfeluidheacht an
phobaill gheindtlidhe dfechain, do
geibthear indta, gurab è antadhbhar
cedna tug orra anumhla, agas anonoir
do dhlighfedis do thabhairt do dia ata-
bhairt do deibh breige .1. Ainbfis agas
neamhchurum an ladha diadha, agas
thoile de, do bheith ar aprindfaghaibh,
agas ge dhobhi feachran agas ainbfis or
ra fan ladh dhiadha, do bhi cadhas agas
onoir mhor aca dha thabhairt dona dè-
A. 4.
DEDICATORY.
such as Gideon, and Samuel, and David, and Jehoshaphat, and
Ilezekiah (Uzziah), and Josiah : and also some of the wicked judges
and of the kings who obtained disgrace and condemnation in the
testimony of God from the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. The
cause of their being thus under censure and condemnation from
God was that they did not understand that it was their duty to care
for the Divine law, nor that they were bound so to do, or if they did
understand it, that they neglected the care they ought to take on so
understanding it. If we seek to know the history of the Gentile
nations, we shall find there that the same cause led them to give
the obedience and the honour due from them to Clod to false gods, viz.,
ignorance and carelessness concerning the Divine law, and the will
of God, on the part of princes, and that although straying from and
ignorant of the Divine law, they had respect and great honour to