Compared with the peevish face of Calvin, also in Beza's Icones, Knox looks a broad-minded and genial character.
Despite the uncommon length to which Knox carried the contemporary approval of persecution, then almost universal, except among the Anabaptists (and any party out of power), he was not personally rancorous where religion was not concerned.

But concerned it usually was! He was the subject of many anonymous pasquils and libels, we know, but he entirely disregarded them.

If he hated any mortal personally, and beyond what true religion demands of a Christian, that mortal was the mother of Mary Stuart, an amiable lady in an impossible position.

Of jealousy towards his brethren there is not a trace in Knox, and he told Queen Mary that he could ill bear to correct his own boys, though the age was as cruel to schoolboys as that of St.Augustine.
The faults of Knox arose not in his heart, but in his head; they sprung from intellectual errors, and from the belief that he was always right.
He applied to his fellow-Christians--Catholics--the commands which early Israel supposed to be divinely directed against foreign worshippers of Chemosh and Moloch.

He endeavoured to force his own theory of what the discipline of the Primitive Apostolic Church had been upon a modern nation, following the example of the little city state of Geneva, under Calvin.