Protestantism in Scotland - James Aitken Wylie

put away. When he had ended, and sat down, it
may be said that Scotland was reformed.
Knox, though he did not possess the allgrasping,
all-subduing intellect of Calvin, nor the
many-toned eloquence of Luther, which could so
easily rise from the humorous and playful to the
pathetic and the sublime, yet, in concentrated fiery
energy, and in the capacity to kindle his hearers
into indignation, and rouse them to action, excelled
both these Reformers. This one sermon in the
parish church of St. Andrews, followed as it was by
a sermon in the same place on the three
consecutive days, cast the die, and determined that
the Reformation of Scotland should go forward.
The magistrates and townspeople assembled, and
came to a unanimous resolution to set up the
Reformed worship in the city. The church was
stripped of its images and pictures,[5] and the
monasteries were pulled down. The example of St.
Andrews was quickly followed by many other
places of the kingdom. The Protestant worship was
set up at Craft, at Cupar, at Lindores, at
Linlithgow, at Scone, at Edinburgh and
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