John Knox : the hero of the Scottish Reformation . e unto your Majestie my full declaration tueching thatwork: experience since hath schawen that I am not desirus of innovations,so that Christ Jesus be not in his membres openlie troden under the feittof the ungodlie. With farther purgation I will not truble your Majestiefor the present, beseching the Eternall so to assist your Highnes in alleffares that in his sight ye may be found acceptable, your regiment profit-able to the commenwealht, and your factes to be such that justlie theimay be prased of all godlie unto the cuming of our Lord Jesus
John Knox : the hero of the Scottish Reformation . e unto your Majestie my full declaration tueching thatwork: experience since hath schawen that I am not desirus of innovations,so that Christ Jesus be not in his membres openlie troden under the feittof the ungodlie. With farther purgation I will not truble your Majestiefor the present, beseching the Eternall so to assist your Highnes in alleffares that in his sight ye may be found acceptable, your regiment profit-able to the commenwealht, and your factes to be such that justlie theimay be prased of all godlie unto the cuming of our Lord Jesus, to whosemyghtty protection I unfeanedlie committ your Majestie. From Edinburgh, the 6 of August 1561. Your Majesties servand to command in godlines, JOHN KNOX. To the myghty and excellent Princess Elizabeht, the Quenes Majestie ofEngland, be these delivered. 3 _,- - ;? ^ —-/•-*v ***-*> ,„., ,,:.L < Facsimile (on reduced scale) of Knoxs letter to Queen Elizabeth,6th Aug., 1561. (From the original in the State Papers Office.). Reverse side of Knoxs letter to Queen Elizabeth. i559] On the Continent 145 years he would be preaching the Gospel publiclyin the Church of St. Giles, In the interval between the first and the secondvisit of Knox to Dieppe, a Reformed congrega-tion had been secretly formed in the town throughthe influence of a Genevan travelling merchant,Jean Venable: and while Knox was still thereAndre de Sequeran, a gentleman of Provencerecommended by Calvin, acted as pastor, preach-ing at night, sometimes in houses, sometimes We may be sure that Knox, who spokeFrench fluently, assisted in this propagation of theReformed faith; but his time appears to havebeen pretty fully occupied with literary epistles of considerable length, addressedrespectively to the Nobility in Scotland to hisBrethren in Scotland, and to the Lords andothers professing the Truth, are dated fromDieppe, and belong to this portion of the Reform-er
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