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Neither can oath nor promise bind any such people to obey and maintain tyrants against God and against his truth known.

John Knox

I cannot praise the common superfluity which women now use in their apparel.
JOHN KNOX

Myself Praise Woman
Let no day slip over without some comfort received from the mouth of God.
JOHN KNOX

Comfort Day God
When I think of those who have influenced my life the most, I think not of the great but of the good.
JOHN KNOX

Goodness Greatness Influence Life Myself Thinking
The Monstrous Regiment of Women.
JOHN KNOX

Regiment Woman
Those who have arrived at any very eminent degree of excellence in the practice of an art or profession have commonly been actuated by a species of enthusiasm in their pursuit of it. They have kept one object in view amidst all the vicissitudes of time and torture.
JOHN KNOX

Arrival Enthusiasm Excellence Object Practice Profession Pursuit Time Torture
One man with God is always a majority.
JOHN KNOX

God Majority Man
Lord, give me Scotland or I die!
JOHN KNOX

Country Death Myself
Study to practice in life that which the Lord commands, and then be you assured that you shall never hear nor read the same without fruit.
JOHN KNOX

Command Fruit Life Practice Reading
Ye be proud contemners of the free grace of God offered to man in Christ Jesus. For with the Pelagians and Papists ye are become teachers of free will, and defenders of your own righteousness.
JOHN KNOX

Freedom Grace Proud Teacher Willing Yourself
How good we are as preachers depends – not altogether, but (make no mistake!) primarily – on how good we are as men.
JOHN KNOX

Goodness Men Mistake
Although I never lack the presence and plain image of my own wretched infirmity, yet seeing sin so manifestly abounds in all estates, I am compelled to thunder out the threatenings of God against the obstinate rebels.
JOHN KNOX

Image Manifestation Presence Rebel Sin
Neither can oath nor promise bind any such people to obey and maintain tyrants against God and against his truth known.
JOHN KNOX

Known Obedience People Promise Truth
I will keep the ground that God has given me and perhaps in his grace, he will ignite me again. But ignite me or not, in his grace, in his power, I will hold the ground.
JOHN KNOX

God Grace Ground Ignite Myself Power
I sought neither preeminence, glory, nor riches; my honor was that Jesus Christ should reign.
JOHN KNOX

Glory God Myself Rich
Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God.
JOHN KNOX

God Prayer Talk
I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit.
JOHN KNOX

Devil Fear Myself Tremble

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