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
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.
dislike keeping people resentful
People do have the aloha spirit. People don't dislike tourists. This is more about people being resentful that decision-makers aren't keeping up with the growth.
hits maybe people trying
I had over 100,000 hits and 200 people e-mail me in the first month. Now I'm trying to find a place in Croatia, maybe Montenegro.
good
I would say our turnout is pretty good this year,
art views practice
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.
lying flesh flattered
Here lies one who neither flattered nor feared any flesh.
teacher jesus men
Ye [Anabaptists] 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
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.
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.
tyrants people promise
Neither can oath nor promise bind any such people to obey and maintain tyrants against God and against his truth known.
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.
use common praise
I cannot praise the common superfluity which women now use in their apparel.