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John Knox

John Knox

Birthname

AKA John Knox, Driss Knox

Birthplace Giffordgate, Haddington Scotland

Educated At University Of Glasgow, University Of St Andrews

Nationality Kingdom Of Scotland

Occupations Theologian, Cleric, Writer, Clericwoman

Religion Calvinism

Spouse Margaret Knox

Total quotes (21)

For howsoever we be changeable, yet is God in His counsel stable and immutable.

— John Knox, Against an Anabaptist: In defense of predestination

Loyalty Love of God Counsel Stable

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Neither yet can you be able to prove, that we either by word or writing have affirmed, that the principal end of any man’s creation was perpetual pain.

— John Knox, Against an Anabaptist: In defense of predestination

Man Creation End Pain Suffering

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If Predestination proceedeth from God’s purpose and will as the apostle affirmeth that it doth, then the purpose and will of God being eternal, can not be moved by our works or faith being temporal.

— John Knox, Against an Anabaptist: In defense of predestination

Predestination purpose Will God eternal

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Madam, in God's presence I speak: I never delighted in the weeping of any of God's creatures; yea I can scarcely well abide the tears of my own boys whom my own hand corrects, much less can I rejoice in your Majesty's weeping.

— John Knox, via en.wikiquote.org

Soft-hearted Love Compassion Sadness

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You (the Anabaptists) make the love of God common to all men, and that do we constantly deny.

— John Knox, Against an Anabaptist: In defense of predestination

Anabaptist Love of God Denial Rejection God

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If God’s glory be declared and made manifest, even by the miseries which some creatures sustain, dare you therefore accuse God of cruelty? Consider your bold foolishness, and repent your blasphemies before vengeance strike.

— John Knox, Against an Anabaptist: In defense of predestination

glory God Misery Cruelty Love of God Repent

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That our God is eternal, incomprehensible, and immutable, so are His counsels constant, subject to no mutability nor change, constant, I say, in God Himself, howsoever things change to our apprehension.

— John Knox, Against an Anabaptist: In defense of predestination

God eternal Counsel Constant

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Such as desire this Article to be buried in silence, and would that men should teach and believe that the grace of God's election is common to all, but that one receiveth it and another receiveth it not, proceedeth either from their obedience or disobedience; such deceive themselves and are unthankful and injurious to God.

— John Knox, Against an Anabaptist: In defense of predestination

Teachings Belief Receiving Love Love of God obedience

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The testimony of scripture is so plain that to add anything were superfluous, were it not that the world is almost now come to that blindness, that whatsoever pleases not the princes and the multitude, the same is rejected as doctrine newly forged, and is condemned for heresy.

— John Knox, via www.goodreads.com

Bible scripture Doctrine God Heresy

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Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God.

— John Knox, via www.goodreads.com

prayer Communication Communicating with God Genuine Love God

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All that the Lord thy God commands thee to do, that do thou to the Lord thy God: add nothing to it, diminish nothing from it.' By this rule, think I, the Kirk of Christ will measure God's religion, and not by that which seems good in their own eyes.

— John Knox, via www.goodreads.com

Commandments obedience Faith Religion

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If these things do displease you, remember first, that they are the voices of the Holy Ghost; and secondly, call to mind the condition of mankind (compared with that sovereign Majesty) be but worms creeping upon the earth, and therefore we can not climb up to heaven, and so reason or plead with the Almighty.

— John Knox, Against an Anabaptist: In defense of predestination

Holy Ghost God voice Faith

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Although I never lack the presence and plain image of my own wretched
infirmity, yet seeing sin so manifestly abounds in all estates, I am
compelled to thunder out the threatenings of God against the obstinate
rebels.

— John Knox, via www.goodreads.com

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The man who stands with God is always in the majority.

— John Knox, via www.goodreads.com

Faithful Service obedience Majority God

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Satan ever from the beginning hath declared himself enemy to the free and undeserved love of God. He hath now in these most corrupt days most furiously raged against that doctrine, which attributeth all praise and glory of our redemption to the eternal love and undeserved grace of God alone.

— John Knox, Against an Anabaptist: In defense of predestination

satan Love of God Unworthy Rage Corrupt Doctrine Redemption eternal love

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If you cannot see just causes why God should make that thing very good which after should become extremely evil, accuse your own blindness; and desire of God to repress in you that presumption and pride which against the Eternal Son of God you have conceived.

— John Knox, Against an Anabaptist: In defense of predestination

Just God Good Evil

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As touching nature I am a worm of this earth, and yet a subject of this commonwealth; but as touching the office wherein it has pleased God to place me [head of the Reformed church in Scotland], I am a watchman...For that reason I am bound in conscience to blow the trumpet publicly.

— John Knox, via en.wikiquote.org

Nature Watchman Work Service

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Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.

— John Knox, via www.goodreads.com

Resistance tyranny obedience Faithful God Christianity

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To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire above any realm, nation, or city, is repugnant to nature; contumely to God, a thing most contrary to his revealed will and approved ordinance; and finally, it is the subversion of good order, of all equity and justice.

— John Knox, The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women

Regimen Women Inequality

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Considering myself called of my God to instruct the ignorant, comfort the sorrowful, confirm the weak, and rebuke the proud; by tongue and lively voice in these corrupt days rather than to compose books for the age to come, seeing that so much is written, and yet so little well observed, I decree to contain myself within the bounds of that vocation whereunto I found myself especially called.

— John Knox, via www.goodreads.com

obedience Service Faith Vocation Calling

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But yet I say, that the doctrine of God’s eternal predestination is so necessary to the church of God, that, without the same, can faith neither be truly taught, neither surely established; man can never be brought to true humility and knowledge of himself; neither yet can he be ravished in admiration of God’s eternal goodness, and so moved to praise him as appertaineth.

— John Knox, Against an Anabaptist: In defense of predestination

Doctrine Predestination Church God

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