. Beza's Icones, contemporary portraits of reformers of religion and letters; being facsimile reproductions of the portraits in Beza's Icones (1580) and in Goulard's edition (1581). y of the times. About the middleof the engraving is the figure of Cranmer placing acopy of the sacred volume in the hands of one of hisclergy and repeating the charge of St. Peter, Feedthe flock of God. Strype, in his Life of the Archbishop, tells how223 Bezas Portraits of Reformers Cranmers Bible was received by the people ofEngland. It was wonderful, says the historian, to see with what joy this Book of God was r
. Beza's Icones, contemporary portraits of reformers of religion and letters; being facsimile reproductions of the portraits in Beza's Icones (1580) and in Goulard's edition (1581). y of the times. About the middleof the engraving is the figure of Cranmer placing acopy of the sacred volume in the hands of one of hisclergy and repeating the charge of St. Peter, Feedthe flock of God. Strype, in his Life of the Archbishop, tells how223 Bezas Portraits of Reformers Cranmers Bible was received by the people ofEngland. It was wonderful, says the historian, to see with what joy this Book of God was received,not only among the learned sort, and those thatwere noted for lovers of the Reformation, butgenerally all England over, among all the vulgar andcommon people ; and with what greediness GodsWord was read ; and what resort to places wherethe reading of it was. Everybody that couldbought the book, and busily read it, or got othersto read it to them ; and divers more elderly peoplelearned to read on purpose. And even little boysflocked among the rest to hear portions of the HolyScripture read. 224 GROUP VI A PRINCIPAL RENEWER OF CHRISTIANITY RESTOREDIN SCOTLAND JOHN KNOX. JOHN KNOX. John Knox (Joannes Cnoxus) THERE is difference of opinion among hisbiographers as to the year and place of theScottish Reformers birth. The traditionaldate is 1505 ; but Beza affirms that he died inhis fifty-seventh year, and if that be so then hemust have been born in 1515, as it is certain he diedin 1572. As to the birthplace, some think it was theparish of Morham, East Lothian ; others favourGiffordgate, a straggling hamlet on the outskirts ofthe town of Haddington, Bezas description of* Cnoxus is Scotus, Giffordiensis. In the matterof parentage Knox himself tells us that his fatherand two grandfathers had served the Earls of Both-well—landowners in Haddingtonshire—had foughtunder their standards, and some of them had fallenin battle by their side. Evidently he was of lineagesmall, and he
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