“I am a watchman…For that reason I am bound in conscience to blow the trumpet publicly.”

— John Knox

As quoted in World Studies for Christian Schools (2000) by Terri Koontz, Mark Sidwell & S. M. Bunker,
Context: As touching nature I am a worm of this earth, and yet a subject of this commonwealth; but as touching the office wherein it has pleased God to place me [head of the Reformed church in Scotland], I am a watchman... For that reason I am bound in conscience to blow the trumpet publicly.

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Scottish clergyman, writer and historian 1514–1572

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