{33b} In this modest passage, Knox says that, as to "the chief points of religion," he, with God's help, "will give place to neither man nor angel teaching the contrary" of his preaching.

Yet an angel might be supposed to be well informed on points of doctrine! "But as to ceremonies or rites, things of smaller weight, I was not minded to move contention.

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." The one point which--"because I am but one, having in my contrary magistrates, common order, and judgments, and many learned"-- he is prepared to yield, and that for a time, is the practice of kneeling, but only on three conditions.