feaned.[986] For what
counsall I had gevin to your Grace, my writtingis, alsweall my
Letteris and Additioun to the same, now prented,[987] as diverse
otheris quhilkis I wrait fra Sanct Johnestoun, may testifie. I
farther added, that sick ane ennemye was I unto yow, that my tung
did bayth perswaid and obteane, that your authoritie and regiment
should be obeyed of us in all thingis lawchfull, till ye declaired
your self open ennemye to this commoun-wealth, as now, allace! ye
have done. This I willed him moreover to say to your Grace, that yf
ye, following the counsall of flatterand men, having no God bot
this world and thair bellies, did proceid in your malice against
Christ Jesus his religioun, and trew ministeris, that ye should do
nothing ellis but accclerat and haste Godis plague and vengeance
upoun your self and upoun your posteritie: and that ye, (yf ye did
not change your purpose hastelie,) should bring your self in sick
extreame danger, that when ye wold seak remeady, it should nott be
sa easy to be found, as it had bene befoir. This is the effect and
sume of all that I said at that tyme, and willed him, yf he
pleased, to communicat the same to your Grace. And the same yitt
agane I notifie unto your Grace, by this my letter, writtin and
subscryved at Edinburgh, the 26 of October 1559.

(_Sic subscribitur_,)
"Your Grace's to command in all godlynes.
"JOHN KNOX.

"_Postscriptum._--God move your harte[988] yitt in tyme to
considder, that ye feght nott against man, bot against the eternall
God, and against his Sone Jesus Christ, the onlie Prince of the
kingis of the earth."

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At whiche answer, the said Maister Robert was so offended, that he wald
nott deliver his letteris, saying, "That we wer ungodlie and injuriouse
to the Quene Regent yf we suspected any craft in hir." To the whiche it
was answered, by one of the preacheouris, "That tyme should declair,
whitther he or thei war deceaved. Yff sche should nott declair hir self
ennemye to the trew religioun whiche thei professed, yf ever sche had
the upper hand, then thei wald be content to confesse that thei had
suspected her sinceritie without just cause. Bot and yf sche should
declair her malice no less in tymes cuming than