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John Knox and the Reformation

CHAPTER VI: KNOX IN THE ENGLISH PURITAN TROUBLES AT FRANKFORT: 1554-1555
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The Puritans, however, decided to alter the service to their taste, and enjoyed the use of the chapel.

They had obtained a service which they were not likely to have been allowed to enforce in England had Edward VI.

lived; but on this point they were of another opinion.
This success was providential.

They next invited English exiles abroad to join them at Frankfort, saying nothing about their mutilations of the service book.

If these brethren came in, when they were all restored to England, if ever they were restored, their example, that of sufferers, would carry the day, and their service would for ever be that of the Anglican Church.


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