A Sermon for the Times Preached in Aid of the Jacobins of Maryland
A Sermon for the Times Preached in Aid of the Jacobins of Maryland
Knox, John, 1505-1572
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His joy is gone. He remembers the idolatrous opinions of his countrymen. He holds an official rank and position which any disregard of public sen- timent may endanger. He may be thought a miserable Pie- brew, a mudsill Jcav, if he dare express at home the noble sentiment he uttered to Elijah. Oh, gigantic struggle of the human heart I The soldier who would have faced the com- bined enemies of Assyria w^ith joy, and eagerly braved death in her cause, whimpers to the prophet these words : "' In t...his thing the Lord pardon thy servant, " (notwith- standing what I have just said about burnt offering and sacrifice. ) "■ When my master goeth into the (idolatrous) temple of Kimmon to worship there, " (the great idol which Assyrians worship, ) "and he leaneth upon my hand, " (as state ceremony required, ) "and when he boAvs I bow myself in the House of Kimmon, when I bow myself in the House of Rimmon the Lord pardon thy servant in this thing. " All the manly determination to worship the Glod that healed him liad fled.
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