For there is no hope of their amendment,.

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He shall send Jehu to execute his just judgments against idolaters.

Jezebel herself shall not escape the vengeance and plagues that are prepared for her portion." {49b} These passages are essential.
Professor Hume Brown expresses our own sentiments when he remarks: "In casting such a pamphlet into England at the time he did, Knox indulged his indignation, in itself so natural under the circumstances, at no personal risk, while he seriously compromised those who had the strongest claims on his most generous consideration." This is plain truth, and when some of Knox's English brethren later behaved to him in a manner which we must wholly condemn, their conduct, they said, had for a motive the mischief done to Protestants in England by his fiery "Admonition," and their desire to separate themselves from the author of such a pamphlet.
Knox did not, it will be observed, here call all or any of the faithful to a general massacre of their Catholic fellow-subjects.