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

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ibh balbha bodhra fin da gcreiddis, agas
dona feallfamhnaibh, agas dona daoin-
ibh glioca do bhi aca : indas go niarda-
ois comhairle ar a ndeibh anam anei-
geantuis : agas anan shocracht, agas go
ndendaois caitheamh agas cofdus imar
each re ndealbhaibh, agas re naltoraibh
breige. Agas da dhearbhadh fin agca-
thair na haithne do bhi na fgoil gliocais
geinearalta go huilidhe ameasg an pho
bail gheindtlighe dobheireadh gach aòn
dibh go coitcheand mar mhiondaibh
na briathrafa fids. Pugnabo pro templis
& facris folus & cum alijs. i. Catho-
chaidh me amaonar agas maille re each
ar fon na dteampall agas na naltor, agas
na neitheand naomhtha. Ar anadhb-
liar fin is dearbhtha duinne go raibhe
curum, agas cadhus, agas creideamh
agan phoball gheintlighe go huilidhe
da ndeibh agas da dteampluibh. Da
reir fin is follas go bfuillid an mhuinte-
ar iarras ar tighearnaibh agas arprind-
faghaibh crisduidhe gan ciirum an rea-
chtadiadha do bheith orra ina naiinh-
EPISTLE
give to the dumb and deaf gods in whom they believed, and to the
philosophers and wise men whom they possessed ; so that they
were wont to ask counsel of their gods in the time of distress and
of necessity, and were wont to spend liberally on their images and
on their lying altars. And this was shown in the city of Athens,
which was a school of wisdom generally among the heathen nations
throughout, where every man commonly took an oath, in these
words, Pugnabo pro templis et sacris solus et cum aliis. — viz. I
shall fight for the temples and the sacred things alone and along
with others. Wherefore it is clear to us that the heathen people
had care and respect for, and faith in, their false gods and their
temples. According to this, those men who desire Christian
lords and princes to have no care for the Divine law are the