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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...

Back in Geneva in the Spring of 1558 he settled down once again to his pastoral duties, preaching, writing and publishing. It was during this period that he worked out his theory of ‘a godly revolution’ which was to bear much fruit over the centuries. The book he had written while in Dieppe was published anonymously without author, publisher or place. It was for a time attributed to Christopher Goodman who had written and published on 1 January 1558 a work entitled How Superior Powers Ought to be
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