History of the Bassandyne Bible, the First Printed in Scotland: With Notices of the Early Printers of Edinburgh

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W. Blackwood and sons, 1887 - Bassandyne Bible - 232 pages

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Page 44 - Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim — Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God, to be divinely free, To soar, and to anticipate the skies.
Page 72 - James be the grace of God, King of Scottis, to all and sindry, quhom it efferis.
Page 44 - Patriots have toiled, and in their country's cause Bled nobly; and their deeds, as they deserve, Receive proud recompense. We give in charge Their names to the sweet lyre. The historic muse, Proud of the treasure, marches with it down To latest times; and sculpture, in her turn, Gives bond in stone and ever-during brass To guard them, and to...
Page 177 - And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.
Page 40 - I am the gladder,' said Tyndale, ' for these two benefits shall come thereof: I shall get money to bring myself out of debt, and the whole world will cry out against the burning of God's Word, and the overplus of the money that shall remain to me shall make me more studious to correct the said New Testament, and so newly to imprint the same once again, and I trust the second will much better like you than ever did the first.
Page 37 - O oure father which arte in heven/ halowed be thy name. Let thy kingdom come. Thy wyll be fulfilled / as well in erth / as hit ys in heven. Geve vs this daye oure dayly breade. And forgeve vs oure treaspases / even as we forgeve them which treaspas vs. Leede vs not into temptacion. but delyvre vs from yvell/ Amen.
Page 53 - ... a place it behoved them not to do ; and also have procured, as a stay to their heresies (as they thought), certain Scriptures wrongly applied to be painted upon the church walls ; all which persons tend chiefly to this end — that they might uphold the liberty of the flesh, and marriage of priests, and destroy, as much as lay in them, the...
Page 61 - Wit ye that forsamekill as our lovittis servitouris Walter chepman and Andro myllar burgessis of our burgh of Edinburgh, has at our instance and request, for our plesour, the honour and profitt of our Realme and liegis, takin on thame to furnis and bring hame ane prent, with all stuff belangand tharto, and expert men to use the samyne...
Page 42 - I will tell thee truly ; it is the Bishop of London that hath holpen us, for he hath bestowed among us a great deal of money, upon New Testaments, to burn them ; and that hath been, and yet is, our only succour and comfort.' ' Now, by my troth,' quoth More, ' I think even the same, for so much I told the bishop before he went about it.

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