John Knox : the hero of the Scottish Reformation . r, was not cited as an ecclesiasti-cal offender, but to give his confession why heaffirmed the mass to be idolatry, and a largecongregation assembled in the Church of St.Nicholas at Newcastle to hear his address. TheBishop had furnished the preacher with anopportunity of effectively propagating his viewson a burning question of the time.2 In the FirstPrayer-book of Edward VI., the elevation andadoration of the host were significantly discon-tinued. Accordingly, when Knox declared thatthe mass, as celebrated by Romanists, was idola- 1 Burnet, H

John Knox : the hero of the Scottish Reformation . r, was not cited as an ecclesiasti-cal offender, but to give his confession why heaffirmed the mass to be idolatry, and a largecongregation assembled in the Church of St.Nicholas at Newcastle to hear his address. TheBishop had furnished the preacher with anopportunity of effectively propagating his viewson a burning question of the time.2 In the FirstPrayer-book of Edward VI., the elevation andadoration of the host were significantly discon-tinued. Accordingly, when Knox declared thatthe mass, as celebrated by Romanists, was idola- 1 Burnet, H

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John Knox : the hero of the Scottish Reformation . r, was not cited as an ecclesiasti-cal offender, but to give his confession why heaffirmed the mass to be idolatry, and a largecongregation assembled in the Church of St.Nicholas at Newcastle to hear his address. TheBishop had furnished the preacher with anopportunity of effectively propagating his viewson a burning question of the time.2 In the FirstPrayer-book of Edward VI., the elevation andadoration of the host were significantly discon-tinued. Accordingly, when Knox declared thatthe mass, as celebrated by Romanists, was idola- 1 Burnet, H. of R., ii., 36, 310; Strype, Memorials, ii.,Part II., 161. The headquarters of the Council were atYork, but annual sessions were held at Hull, Durham, andNewcastle; and it was presumably to the regular session atNewcastle that Knox was cited. The Earl of Shaftesburywas President of the Council, and Sir Robert Bowes was amember of it 2 Laing, W. of K., iii., 33-70 (where the discourse is givenin full); Lorimer, Knox and the Ch. of E., pp. 51-65.. c3 1) £ ^?N ^^ -4-1 eS M _ a. ~ >, U. c^ 3 u -*-j 0) 0) > ?4-» o <1) rj <U rt bo () D rt 25 C o j- y) N ^— o u 1554] In England 105- trous, he was in harmony with a parliamentarystatute, and his declaration could not be madethe ground of a charge against him. It is signifi-cant, however, that in his discussion of the ques-tion he goes far beyond the standpoint of thePrayer-book. He uses the term idolatry in awide sense, embracing not a little which Cran-mer and his colleagues would have declined tocondemn. The latter were content to omit fromthe Communion office whatever involved or sug-gested transubstantiation. With this part of thesubject Knox deals effectively in the latter por-tion of his discourse, and shews the unscripturalcharacter of the doctrine of the mass, as analleged sacrifice for the sins of the quick and thedead. : But in the earlier part of the addresshe adopts by anticipation the Puritan positionthat