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

EBISTI L
oir is mo do chuir tu afuim an ni do dh
earbh an foifgel diadha dhuit, ina meid
oirrdhearcais haoifi, agas fad angh-
nathuighe do chualais do bheith agna
findfearaibh onoracha dochnaith rom-
had, agaithris aran righ dhiadha Efifias
Neoch do bhi na oganach ar bfaghail
righeachta do. Afeadh do rinde fe an
leabhar diadha do ghabhail na lainih
i. an timna ina bfuil toil De, agas afoiil-
fiughadh dona poibleachaibh, agas tug
arna faidhibh agas arna fagartaibh tre
rath de a foillfiughadh do chlandaibh
Ifrahel agas do hindarbadh leis an ladh
truaillidhe tugadar na sagairt shanta-
cha aninadh reachta de, do chomhmo-
radh agas do mhedughadh adtighearr-
ntuis tfsaoghalta fein le hainbfis andim-
haoinis ar comhairle tfatain. i. an ainfbir
aid namha righachta crill, gan fhechain
do dhochar dhamhed da bfedfadh te-
cht indiaidh anadhbhuirfm. Nir fhech
maoifi da chuntabhairt, anuair do
gabh fe do Iaimh ar furaileamh De"
eland Ifrahel do thabhairt as aneigeift,
agas
EPISTLE
for you have preferred that which the Divine gospel has shown to
you to the greatness of the ancient fame, and the old customs which
you have heard were fi »11« .wed 1 >y vi uir In moural de ancestors who pre-
ceded you, speaking of the holy King 1 Ic/claah ( !<>siah ?), who was a
youth when he obtained the kingdom. What he did was to take
the holy book into his hand, viz., the testimony in which is the
will of God, and to make it known to the people, and to make the
prophets and the priests through the grace of God to make it
known to the children of Israel, and to expel by its means the cor-
rupt law which the covetous priests gave in place of the law of
God, in order to establish and increase their own worldly
power, through vain ignorance by the counsel of Satan, viz.,
the evil spirit who is the enemy of the kingdom of Christ,
without looking to the evil that might follow on that account.
Moses did not consider the danger when he undertook at
God's command to lead the children of Israel out of Egypt,