John Knox And The Reformation by Andrew Lang

Author:Andrew Lang [Lang, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Klassiker
ISBN: 9783849606947
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Published: 2013-02-02T00:00:00+00:00

The brethren replied to these “calumnies of Papists” (as Calderwood styles them), that they “proclaimed nothing that was not finally agreed upon, in word and promise, betwixt us and those with whom the Appointment was made, whatsoever their scribes had after written, [145b] who, in very deed, had altered, both in words and sentences, our Articles, as they were first conceived ; and yet if their own writings were diligently examined, the self same thing shall be found in substance.”

This is most complicated quibbling! Knox uses his ink like the cuttle-fish, to conceal the facts. The “own writings” of the Regent’s party are before us, and do not contain the terms proclaimed by the Congregation. Next, in drawing up the terms which the Congregation was compelled to accept, the “scribes” of the Regent’s party necessarily, and with the consent of the Protestant negotiators, altered the terms proposed by the brethren, but not granted by the Regent’s negotiators. Thirdly, the Congregation now asserted that “ finally ” an arrangement in conformity with their proclamation was “agreed upon in word and promise ”; that is, verbally, which we never find them again alleging. The game was to foist false terms on public belief, and then to accuse the Regent of perfidy in not keeping them.

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