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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...

and a half earlier, followers of the English Reformer, John Wycliff, had settled in Kyle, Ayrshire. Wycliff had openly attacked the abuses in the Church and urged people to read the Bible for themselves. His followers were called ‘Lollards’. The teaching spread and a Lollard named James Resby was burned as a heretic in Perth in 1407, and in 1433 Paul Craw, a Bohemian student at St Andrews University, was arrested and burned at the stake because he was a follower of John Huss, a Bohemian Reformer
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