By the same Author. PATRICK HAMILTON, THE FIRST PREACHER AND MARTYR OF THE SCOTTISH REFORMATION. Collected from Original Sources never before used. GRIFFIN & Co. London, 1857. THE SCOTTISH REFORMATION. GRIFFIN & Co. London, 1860. Embracing many New Facts obtained by Original Research, especially with regard to Alexander Alesius Scotus and other Protestant Scottish Exiles who settled in England, Germany, and Denmark. THE FUNCTION OF THE FOUR GOSPELS, viewed in connection with Recent Criticism. A College Lecture. Published by Request. NISBET & Co. London, 1869. THE EVIDENTIAL VALUE OF THE EARLY EPISTLES OF ST. PAUL, viewed as Historical Documents. A Lecture. Published by THE CHRISTIAN EVIDENCE SOCIETY. HODDER & STOUGHTON. London, 1874. AND THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND HIS WORK IN HER PULPIT AND HIS INFLUENCE UPON A MONOGRAPH FOUNDED Upon several impORTANT Papers of knox NEVER Before PUBLISHED BY PETER LORIMER, D.D. PROFESSOR OF THEOLOGY, ENGLISH PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE HENRY S. KING & Co. 65 CORNHILL AND 12 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON 1875 PREFAC E. ABOUT two years ago I was looking through the "Morrice " Collection of Manuscripts in Dr. Williams's Library, London, in search of unpublished papers bearing upon the history of the Elizabethan Puritans, when I came, quite unexpectedly, upon the Knox-Papers, which are here, for the first time, printed, and laid under contribution to the history of the English section of the Scottish Reformer's life and work. It is very surprising that these Papers were not given to the world long ago, for they are included in the same collection from which Neal derived a large portion of his materials for the "History of the Puritans;" and they must have fallen under the eyes of Brooks, Price, and other original investigators in the same field, who all acknowledge their obligations to the same valuable repository. The explanation in regard to two of the Papers may probably be that the name of Knox appearing in the titles of them may have led these authors too hastily to conclude that they had already been published with his other writings, which were not, till lately, accessible in a collected form, and could not, therefore, be easily compared with the Papers; while in regard to another of the Papers-the most important of all-the absence from it of all names and dates may possibly have made the task of identification b |