The Book of Common Order, commonly called John Knox's Liturgy

MADMHAIL
ar bun inte : darabainm fa laidin.
Diciplina Ecclefiaflica .i. Smacht agas
ceartughadh bheanas re teagafg locht,
agas mibhes, agas ife is crioch, agas dei
readh do fm curfadh re toil na Eaglu-
ife, da rabh fear na locht dur dotheagaifg
dlighidh an Eagluis Tighearna no
vachtaran faoghalta do bheith virre
darab comhainm fa laidin : Magiflra-
tus ciuilis, agus dlighidh an tuachtaran
fin cothrum agas ceart do dhenamh
da gach aonduine, marta cadhas, agas
coimhdhidean do denamh dona daoi-
nibh maithe agas dioghaltas do dhenamh
ar na drochdhaoinibh ; agas dli-
ghidh an Eagluis umhla, & onoir do
thabhairt dona huachtaranaibh fm, ingach
ni nach bi anadhaidh thoile no
aithne De : Mar do rinde Maoife, agas
Ezechias, agas lofias, agas Moran do
priondfadhaibh oile maith don Eagluis
roimhe fo : Mar ata aniamhadh & anua
ghlanadh ò tfal, agas 6 tfalchar an fhu-
ar chreidimh, agas fgrios a dealb, & ad-
roch eifimlara, ar eagla go ndendhaois
daoine
which standeth in admonition and correction of fautes. The finall
ende wherof is excommunication, by the consent of the Churche
determyned, if the offender be obstinate. And besides this
Ecclesiasticall censure, I acknowlage to belonge to this church a
poUticall Magistrate, who ministreth to every man justice, defending
the good and punishinge the evell ; to whom we must rendre
honor and obedience in all thinges, which are not contrarie to the
Word of God.
And as Moses, Ezechias, Josias, and other godly rulers purged
the Church of God frome superstition and idolatrie, so the defence
of Christes Church apperteynith to the Christian Magistrates,
against all idolaters and heretikes, as Papistes, Anabaptistes,
with such like limmes of Antechrist, to roote owte all doctrine
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