_Who dare be so impudent as to deny this to be most reasonable and just_ ?" {83} Knox's method of argument for his doctrine is to take, among other texts, Deuteronomy xiii.

12-18, and apply the sanguinary precepts of Hebrew fanatics to the then existing state of affairs in the Church Christian.
Thus, in Deuteronomy, cities which serve "other gods," or welcome missionaries of other religions, are to be burned, and every living thing in them is to be destroyed.

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