About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 66. Chapters: English Calvinists, Scottish Calvinists, John Knox, George Whitefield, Charles Spurgeon, Laurence Tomson, John Foxe, William Carey, Iain Torrance, William Huntington, Octavius Winslow, John Howard, Henry Jacob, Seon Carsuel, Terry Virgo, Rachel Speght, Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, Andrew Willet, Richard Bernard, Andrew Melville, Thomas Torrance, Joseph Hart, Horatius Bonar, James Janeway, Robert Smith Candlish, Samuel Ward, John Gill, John Duncan, George Gillespie, Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Edmund Bunny, Matthew Henry, John Murray, Samuel Rutherford, Anne Locke, Benjamin Keach, Daniel Rogers, Thomas Vincent, Thomas Jackson, John Howie, Nicholas Byfield, Thomas Boston, Andrew Bonar, Richard Capel, Patrick Fairbairn, Thomas Adams, John Rainolds, Archibald G. Brown, David Jones, Andrew Purves, Thomas Spurgeon, Thomas Harrison, Dudley Fenner, William Anderson, Thomas Tully, Sebastian Benefield, Miles Smith, Thomas Holland, Roger Edwards, William Mason. Excerpt: John Knox (c. 1514 - 24 November 1572) was a Scottish clergyman and a leader of the Protestant Reformation who brought reformation to the church in Scotland. He was educated at the University of St Andrews and was ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood in 1536. Influenced by early church reformers such as George Wishart, he joined the movement to reform the Scottish church. He was caught up in the ecclesiastical and political events that involved the murder of Cardinal Beaton in 1546 and the intervention of the regent of Scotland, Mary of Guise. He was taken prisoner by French forces the following year and exiled to England on his release in 1549. While in exile, Knox was licensed to work in the Church of England, where he quickly rose in the ranks to serve King Edward VI of England as a royal chaplain. In this position, he exerted a reforming influe...
