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LIFE OF JOHN KNOX.
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wrote on the occasion, at intervals snatched from his
constant employment.
“ Thus far,” says he, in a letter from St. Andrews,
June 23, “ hath God advanced the glory of his dear Son
among us. O that my heart could he thankful for the
super-excellent benefit of my God. The long thirst of
my wretched heart is satisfied in abundance, that is above
my expectation ; for now forty days and more hath my
God used my tongue, in my native country, to the
manifestation of his glory. Whatsoever now shall follow,
as touching my own carcase, his holy name be praised.
The thirst of the poor people, as well as of the nobility
here is wondrous great; which putteth me in comfort,
that Christ Jesus shall triumph here in the north and
rxtreme parts of the earth for a space.” In another
letter, dated September 2d, he says, “ Time to me is so
precious, that with great difficulty can I steal one hour
in eight days, either to satisfy myself, or to gratify my
friends. I have been in continual travel since the day
of appointment; and, notwithstanding the fevers have
vexed me, yet have I travelled through the most part of
this realm, where, all praise to his blessed majesty! men of
all sorts and conditions embrace the truth. Enemies we
nave many, by reason of the Frenchmen who lately
arrived, of whom our Papists hope golden hills. As we
be not able to resist, we do nothing but go about Jericho,
blowing with trumpets, as God giveth strength, hoping
victory by his power alone.”
Immediately after his arrival in Scotland, he wrote to
Geneva for his wife and family. On the 13th of June,
Mrs. Knox and her mother were at Paris, and applied to
Sir Nicolas Throkmorton, the English ambassador, for
a safe conduct to pass into England. Throkmorton, who
by this time had begun to penetrate the counsels of the
French court, not only granted this, but wrote a letter
to the queen, in which he urged the propriety of over¬
looking the offence which Knox had given by his publi-