Quote#Politics & Power
But hereof be assured, that all is not lawful nor just that is…
Quote byJohn Knox · 1514–1572
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: John Knox pastoral, as quoted in The Breakers of the Yoke: Sketches and Studies of the Men ... by J. S. MacIntosh, p. 303.
English (original)
But hereof be assured, that all is not lawful nor just that is statute by civil laws; neither yet is everything sin before God, which ungodly persons allege to be treason.
— John Knox
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