15 May 1556 A.D John Knox Called Before Church of Black Friars, Edinburgh, to Face Legal Proceedings
15 May 1556 A.D John Knox Called Before Church of Black Friars, Edinburgh, to Face Legal Proceedings. (Thomas Cranmer, about 3 months earlier, was burned at stake.) The story is resume. Christianitytoday.com tells its version of the story at: http://www.christianity.com/church/church-history/timeline/1501-1600/john-knoxs-friends-turn-the-tables-11629996.html When Knox first preached, his sermons consisted largely of fulminations against Roman Catholic practices. They gave his listeners something to protest against, but nothing to put in place of that which they were asked to discard. In 1556, after a visit to Geneva, Knox began to preach a new kind of sermon, a sermon in which he not only tore down the old but showed his listeners that as God's elect they must build a new kind of church in place of that which they removed. Many nobles came to hear him speak of the new nation he envisioned, a nation in which the true Kirk (church), with Christ at...