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any obscurity in one place, the Holy Ghost,

which is never contrary to Himself, explains

the same more clearly in other places, so that

there can remain no doubt but unto such as

obstinately remain ignorant.”—David Laing,

The Collected Works of John Knox, vol. 2, pp.

281, 284.

Such were the truths that the fearless

Reformer, at the peril of his life, spoke in the

ear of royalty. With the same undaunted

courage he kept to his purpose, praying and

fighting the battles of the Lord, until Scotland

was free from popery.

In England the establishment of

Protestantism as the national religion

diminished, but did not wholly stop,

persecution. While many of the doctrines of

Rome had been renounced, not a few of its

forms were retained. The supremacy of the