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John Knox and the Reformation, by Andrew Lang
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Title: John Knox and the Reformation
Author: Andrew Lang
Release Date: November 10, 2004 [eBook #14016]
Language: English
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Transcribed from the 1905 Longmans, Green and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
John Knox and the Reformation
[John Knox. From a Posthumous Portrait. Beza's Icones, 1850: knox1.jpg]
To Maurice Hewlett
PREFACE
In this brief Life of Knox I have tried, as much as I may, to get behind Tradition, which has so deeply affected even modern histories of the Scottish Reformation, and even recent Biographies of the Reformer. The tradition is based, to a great extent, on Knox's own "History," which I am therefore obliged to criticise as carefully as I can. In his valuable John Knox, a Biography, Professor Hume Brown says that in the "History" "we have convincing proof alike of the writer's good faith, and of his perception of the conditions of historic truth." My reasons for dissenting from this favourable view will be found in the following pages. If I am right, if Knox, both as a politician and an historian, resembled Charles I. in "sailing as near the wind" as