John Knox; a biography . h Knox, that she was unhappy . .to Scotland fra the fyrst day sche enterit into it untothe day she fynischeit hir unhappy lyfe.^ To Knoxshe was the incarnation of every principle for whichthe kingdom of Antichrist existed on earth, and inher death he saw the divine punishment of her wilfulclosing of her eyes to the truth. For her misfortunesand long suffering from a painful disease he has nowords of relenting. He records with triumph how, inher last hours, she consented to receive Willock andlisten to his ministrations, and how she professed theProtestant doctrine of s
John Knox; a biography . h Knox, that she was unhappy . .to Scotland fra the fyrst day sche enterit into it untothe day she fynischeit hir unhappy lyfe.^ To Knoxshe was the incarnation of every principle for whichthe kingdom of Antichrist existed on earth, and inher death he saw the divine punishment of her wilfulclosing of her eyes to the truth. For her misfortunesand long suffering from a painful disease he has nowords of relenting. He records with triumph how, inher last hours, she consented to receive Willock andlisten to his ministrations, and how she professed theProtestant doctrine of salvation through the death ofChrist.^ Yet he does not express even a hope thather admission might stand her in stead where she hadgone. Like St. Columba, St. Bernard, and otherreligious leaders of the same type, Knox is absolutelyincapable of pity or sympathy in the case of such as hethousfht to be wilful enemies of the truth. If reliq-ionwere the absolute thing they believed it to be, beyond 1 Works, ii. 71. ^ -
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