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268 THE PORTRAITS OF JOHN KNOX.

  • them from that bondage, to his glorie, even in this
  • lyef/' And lying betwixt Dundee and St. Andrews,

' the second time that the gallayis returned to Scot- ' land, the said John being so extremely seak ' (sick) 'that few hoped his life, the said Maister James ' willed him to look to the land, and asked if he knew

  • it ? Who answered, " Yes : I knaw it weel ; for I see
  • the stepiU " (steeple) " of that place, where God first
  • in public opened my mouth to his glorie, and I am
  • fully persuaded, how weak that ever I now appear,
  • that I shall not depart this lyeff, till that my tongue

' shall glorifie his godlie name in the same place."

  • This reported the said Maister James, in presence of

' many famous witness, many years before that ever

  • the said John set futt in Scotland, this last time to
  • preache/

Knox sat nineteen months, chained, as a galley slave in this manner; or else, as at last for some months, locked up in the prison of Rouen; and of all his woes, dispiritments and intolerabilities, says no word except the above * miserable entreated.' But it seems hope shone in him in the thickest darkness, refusing to go out at all. The remem-