Knox to Mrs. Anna Lock
LETTERS, ETC.
1559. such as laebour in this caus the spreit of wisdom in snch meassour as that ye may perseave that which is righteous in His sight and profitable to the godlie in both the realmes.
Amen, grace be multipleid with you ! etc.
From Sanctandrois, in haist, the 18 of November 1559.
Youris to command in all godlines, John Knox.
To the right worshipfull Sir William e Cycell, knight, cheif Secretary to the Quen's Majestie.
Deliver these.
XLV.
Knox to Mrs. Anna Lock.
Least that the rumors of our trubles truble you above measure, deare Sister, I thought good in these few words to signifie unto you, that our esperance is yit good in our God, that He, for ' his great name's sake, will give suche successe to this interprise, as nather sail these whome he hath appointed to sigh in this be utterlie confounded ; nather yit that our enemies sail have occasioun to blaspheme his veritie, nor yit triumphe over us in the end.
We trusted too muche, deere Sister, in our owne strenth, and speciallie since the Erie of Arran and his freinds were joyned to our number.
Amongst us also were suche as more soght the purse than Christ's glorie. We by this overthrow are broght to acknowledge what is a multitude without the present help of God, and the hollow hearts of manie are now reveeled.
God mak us humble in his eyes, and then, I feare not the furie of the advLTsarit's, ^yll(), Lc ye assured, doetli now so ni'j^v as yit their crueltie must needes crave vengeance frome Him whose members they persecute.
Our deere brethrein and sisters of Edinburgh and Lothiane, who ly neerest these blood thristie tyrannes, are so trubled and vexed, that it is pitie to remember