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As well as modeling the Church in Scotland, Knox laid the foundation of an extraordinary forward-looking new state—way ahead of the time in such matters as education, social welfare, and democracy. The Reformation had its effect in all spheres of national life. Knox roused the common man to a sense of his true dignity. He said, “Before God all men are equal. In matters of religion God requires no...

substance of justification is to cleave fast unto God by Jesus Christ.’ All other methods of justification are of the devil whose plan God frustrates by bringing out a faithful seed who, believing, do not seek their own justification by the law. It was this desire for self-justification by the law that had led to the invention of man-made methods of salvation in the Church of Rome. Those who are justified are always required to bring forth good works as fruits of justification and as a proof of their
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