THE HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION OF RELIGION WITHIN THE REALM OF SCOTLAND
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CONTAINING THE MANNER AND BY WHAT PERSONS THE LIGHT OF CHRIST’S EVANGEL HATH BEEN MANIFESTED UNTO THIS REALM AFTER THAT HORRIBLE AND UNIVERSAL DEFECTION FROM THE TRUTH, WHICH HATH COME BY MEANS OF THAT ROMAN ANTICHRIST 1527 to 1564
EDITED FOR POPULAR USE BY CHARLES JOHN GUTHRIE, Q.C.
WITH NOTES, SUMMARY, GLOSSARY, INDEX, AND FIFTY-SIX ILLUSTRATIONS
SECOND EDITION
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“The task is one which Carlyle desired to see accomplished nearly thirty years ago, when he wrote in one of the least known of his works: ‘It is really a loss to English and even to universal literature, that Knox’s hasty and strangely interesting, impressive, and peculiar book ... has not been rendered far more extensively legible to serious mankind at large than is hitherto the case.’ It will be interesting to see if Mr. Guthrie’s labour can restore John Knox’s ‘History’ to the place of honour it once held, but seems long to have lost, among Scottish classics.”—Glasgow Herald.
“Nothing more graphic in incidents and portraiture, or trustworthy in narrative, than this history remains to us of the literature of the period. The book represents an immense amount of labour, and needs only to be casually examined to convince one of the editor’s intelligent care in its preparation, and of its present-day value. The footnotes are invariably fresh and informative.”—Pray and Trust Magazine.
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By JUSTIN M’CARTHY, M.P. AUTHOR OF ‘A HISTORY OF OUR OWN TIMES’