J. F. Campbell Collection > Book of Common Order, commonly called John Knox's Liturgy

VRRN AI DHTHE
hearna, is leir lind ar an fmacht, agas
ar an dioghaltas do thuit oraind, gur
thuilleamar go mor do tfaobhnoffa.
Oir marta tufa adbhreitheamh cheart
chothrum, ni gan adhbhar do ni tii di-
oghaltas ar do Pobal, aranadhbhurfin
a Thighearna, 6 dho mhothuidheamar
do bhuilleadha, tuigmaoid gur thuille-
amar tfearg go himarcach, agas do chi-
muid do lamh ag bagar ofar gciond, &
do chimuid an tflat ad laimh, le fmach
taidheand, agas le mbuaileand tii find
do ghnath, agas do chimaoid an diog-
haltas vllamh tig do bhridh tfeirgefe,
ar fon ar peacadh. Damadh ail leat a-
nois a thighearna, barr dioghaltais do
dhenamh oraind, nach dearmuis fos,
agas mar fuaramar enbhuille gur bhail
leat ced buille do thabhairt duinn, &
da madh ail leat gnathughadh na fein-
tiumna do chur oraind, mar do chuiris
ar chlandaibh Ifrahel. Aithnidhema-
oid nach denta and fm vile acht ceirt-
bhreitheamhnus cothram, & ni fhed-
maoid atfena, nar thuilleamar fein an-
we see by the corrections which thou hast aheadie used towardes us,
that we have given thee great occasion to be displeased with us :
for seing that thou art a just and upright Judge, it cannot be with-
out cause that thou punishest thy people. Wherefore, for asmuche
as we have felt thy stripes, we acknowledge that we have justly
stirred up thy displeasure against us, yea, and yet we se thine hand
lifted up to beate us afresh : for the roddes and weapons wherewith
thou art accustomed to execute thy vengeance, are alreadie in thine
hand ; and the threatnings of thy wrath, which thou usest against
the wicked sinners, be in ful readines.
Now though thou shuldest punish us much more grievouslie then
thou hast hitherto done, and that, whereas we have received one
stripe, thou wouldest give us an hundreth : yea, if thou wouldest
make the curses of thine Oulde Testament which came then upon
thy people Israel, to fall upon us, we confesse that thou shouldest
do therein very righteously, and we can not denie but we have fully
deserved the same.