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Being threatened, as before, with the consequent "inconvenients," she said "she would advise." Knox himself was present at the Revolution which ensued, but we must now return to his own doings in the autumn and winter of 1558-59. While the inevitable Revolution was impending in Scotland, Knox was living at Geneva.
The chosen saints and people of God, even when under oppression, lift not the hand, but possess their souls in patience, says Knox, in 1558-59. But the idolatrous shall be temporally punished by other hands. In this passage Knox is speaking for the English exiles in Geneva.
In 1557 was formed the powerful assembly of Protestant clergy and laymen who took the title of "the Congregation of the Lord", and signed the National Covenant which aimed at the abolition of Roman Catholicism. Their hostility to the queen-regent was intensified by the events of the year 1558-59.
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