John Knox
John Knox
John Knoxwas a Scottish clergyman, theologian, and writer who was a leader of the Protestant Reformation and is considered the founder of the Presbyterian denomination in Scotland. He is believed to have been educated at the University of St Andrews and worked as a notary-priest. Influenced by early church reformers such as George Wishart, he joined the movement to reform the Scottish church. He was caught up in the ecclesiastical and political events that involved the murder of Cardinal Beaton...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionClergyman
grace given ignite
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.
world scripture doctrine
The testimony of scripture is so plain that to add anything were superfluous, were it not that the world is almost now come to that blindness, that whatsoever pleases not the princes and the multitude, the same is rejected as doctrine newly forged, and is condemned for heresy.
mistake men preacher
How good we are as preachers depends - not altogether, but (make no mistake!) primarily - on how good we are as men.
blow office touching
As touching nature I am a worm of this earth, and yet a subject of this commonwealth; but as touching the office wherein it has pleased God to place me, I am a watchman...For that reason I am bound in conscience to blow the trumpet publicly.
use common praise
I cannot praise the common superfluity which women now use in their apparel.
jesus heart men
No one else holds or has held the place in the heart of the world which Jesus holds. Other gods have been as devoutly worshipped; no other man has been so devoutly loved.
prayer talking familiar
Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God.
kings names may
Let a thing here be noted, that the prophet of God sometimes may teach treason against kings, and yet neither he nor such as obey the word, spoken in the Lord's name by him, offend God.
tyrants people promise
Neither can oath nor promise bind any such people to obey and maintain tyrants against God and against his truth known.
rebel sin threatening
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.
practice fruit study
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.
influence
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
men majority one-man
Un homme avec Dieu est toujours dans la majorite . One man with God is always a majority.
law sin treason
But hereof be assured, that all is not lawful nor just that is statute by civil laws; neither yet is everything sin before God, which ungodly persons allege to be treason.