Today in Reformation History

On this day, 2nd May 1559, John Knox arrives back in Scotland after several years in Geneva, to help lead Scotland in Reformation.

It was a dangerous and uncertain time in Scotland and Knox expresses this in a letter he wrote the next day to his friend Anne Locke.

“I am uncertain as yet what God shall further work in this country, except that I see the battle shall be great, for Satan rages even to the uttermost, and I am come, I praise my God, in the brunt of the battle. For my fellow preachers have a day appointed to answer before the Queen Regent the 10th of this instant, where I intend (if God impede not) also to be present, by life, by death, or else by both, to glorify His Godly name, who thus mercifully has heard my long cries. Assist me, sister, with your prayers, that now I shrink not when the battle approaches.”

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