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

THIOGHLAICTHE.
dibh don naduir dhaona.
Is and fa timnafa Iofa ata gch vile ni
rigmaoid aleas dardteagafg : Ata indte
an ladh neoch nochtus duind mar fbe-
clair ar nolc fcin, agas ar ndamnadh, da
madh ail le dia ceirtbhreitheamhnus
do ghenamh oraind do reir ar peacaidh
Ata amhor throcaire agas amhorghrafa
ag furail maitheamh a peacadh ar gach
enduine aitbridheach, oir is andsa le
dia aithridhe an pheacaidh, ina abhas.
Agas ata indte oidhreacht fhlaitheam-
hnuis de, arna gealladh da gach neach
ghabhas criofd ar dtighearna chuige na
chroidhe maille re deagh chreideamh.
Maseadh cindus do muchadh, agas
do baitheadh agas do trnailleadh an
timnafa Chrifd : cindus do fgriofadh
aladh le foirrneart an Papa, agas na ne-
afbul bfallfa eile neoch do mheall an
faoghal go huilidhe ifmaimfirfe le nain-
bfios imarcach is follus duitfe athigher-
na. Oir ni hair dhimhaoineas do chn-
aidh dhuit an faothar do rinde tu as
toige ag leghadh an fgribtuir dhiadha :
DEDICATORY.
enemies of the human race.
It is in this revelation of Jesus that we have all we need to teach
us. We have in it the law which, as a looking-glass, shows us our
own evil, and our condemnation, if God were pleased to judge us
according to our sin. His great mercy and his great grace are
pressing the forgiveness of sin on every penitent man, for God pre-
fers the penitence of the sinner to his death. And there is included
in it the inheritance of the heaven of God, promised to every one
who receives Christ our Lord to him in his heart in good faith.
If so, you know well, my Lord, how this testimony of Christ
has been suppressed, and drowned, and polluted; how the
law has been destroyed by the oppression of the Pope and the
other false apostles who have deceived the world altogether in this
time, through great ignorance. For it is not in vain that
you have laboured from your youth reading the holy Scriptures,