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John Knox and the Reformation

CHAPTER XIII: KNOX AND THE BOOK OF DISCIPLINE
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Provision must be made for the aged and weak.
Superintendents, after election, are to be examined by all the ministers of the province, and by three or more Superintendents.

Other ceremonies "we cannot allow." In 1581, a Scottish Catholic, Burne, averred that Willock objected to ceremonies of Ordination, because people would say, if these are necessary, what minister ordained _you_?
The query was hard to answer, so ceremonies of Ordination could not be allowed.

The story was told to Burne, he says, by an eyewitness, who heard Willock.
Every church must have a schoolmaster, who ought to be able to teach grammar and Latin.

Education should be universal: poor children of ability must be enabled to pass on to the universities, through secondary schools.

At St.Andrews the three colleges were to have separate functions, not clashing, and culminating in Divinity.
Whence are the funds to be obtained?
Here the authors bid "your Honours" "have respect to your poor brethren, the labourers of the ground, who by these cruel beasts, the papists, have been so oppressed.


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