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Title: John Knox

Author: A. Taylor Innes

Release Date: July 19, 2007 [eBook #22106]

Language: English

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JOHN: KNOX

by

A: TAYLOR INNES

Famous Scots: Series

Published by
Oliphant Anderson
Ferrier Edinbvrgh
and London

The designs and ornaments of this
volume are by Mr Joseph Brown,
and the printing from the press of
Messrs Turabull & Spears, Edinburgh.

_May_ 1896.

CONTENTS

PAGE

CHAPTER I
THE SCHOLAR AND PRIEST: HIS ENVIRONMENT 9

CHAPTER II
THE CRISIS: SINGLE OR TWO-FOLD? 25

CHAPTER III
THE INNER LIFE: HIS WOMEN FRIENDS 48

CHAPTER IV
THE PUBLIC LIFE: TO THE PARLIAMENT OF 1560 65

CHAPTER V
THE PUBLIC LIFE: LEGISLATION AND CHURCH PLANS 95

CHAPTER VI
THE PUBLIC LIFE: THE CONFLICT WITH QUEEN MARY 117

CHAPTER VII
CLOSING YEARS AND DEATH 144

CHAPTER I

THE SCHOLAR AND PRIEST: HIS ENVIRONMENT

The century now closing has redeemed Knox from neglect, and has gathered
around his name a mass of biographical material. That material, too,
includes much that is of the nature of self-revelation, to be gleaned
from familiar letters, as well as from his own history of his time. Yet,
after all that has been brought together, Knox remains to many observers
a mere hard outline, while to others he is almost an enigma--a blur,
bright or black, upon the historic page.

There is one real and great difficulty. For the first forty years of his
life we know absolutely nothing of the inner man. Yet at forty most men
are already made. And in the case of this man, from about that date
onwards we find the character settled and fixed. Henceforward, during
the whole later life with its continually changing drama, Knox remains
intensely and unchangeably the same. It is the contras