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• Neither can oath nor promise bind any such people to obey and maintain tyrants against God and against his truth known.

  John Knox

  Tyrants, People, Promise

  John Knox (1831). “The history of the reformation of religion in Scotland”, p.462

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• But hereof be assured, that all is not lawful nor just that is statute by civil laws; neither yet is everything sin before God, which ungodly persons allege to be treason.

  John Knox

  Law, Sin, Treason

  "The Breakers of the Yoke: Sketches and Studies of the Men". Book by J. S. MacIntosh, p. 303, August 13, 2011.

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• Ye [Anabaptists] be proud contemners of the free grace of God offered to man in Christ Jesus. For with the Pelagians and Papists ye are become teachers of free will, and defenders of your own righteousness

  John Knox

  Teacher, Jesus, Men

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• I cannot praise the common superfluity which women now use in their apparel.

  John Knox

  Use, Common, Praise

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• Here lies one who neither flattered nor feared any flesh.

  John Knox

  Lying, Flesh, Flattered

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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

  Rebel, Sin, Threatening

  John Knox (1842). “Writings of the Rev. John Knox: Minister of God's Word in Scotland”

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• Those who have arrived at any very eminent degree of excellence in the practice of an art or profession have commonly been actuated by a species of enthusiasm in their pursuit of it. They have kept one object in view amidst all the vicissitudes of time and torture.

  John Knox

  Art, Views, Practice

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilber, p. 208, 1895.

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