Knox. Wheresoever the examples are, I am assured of the rule, which is this, If we shall ask anything according to His will, He shall hear us; and our Master, Christ Jesus, commanded us to pray unto our Father, "Thy will be done."
Lethington. But where do ye ever find one of the Prophets so to have prayed?
Knox. It sufficeth me, my Lord, that the Master and Teacher of both Prophets and Apostles has taught me so to pray.
Lethington. But, in so doing, ye put a doubt in the people's head concerning her conversion.
Knox. Not I, my Lord. Her own obstinate rebellion causes more than me to doubt of her conversion.
Lethington. Wherein rebels she against God?
Knox. In all the actions of her life, but in these two heads especially; firstly, she will not hear the preaching of the blessed Evangel of Jesus Christ; and, secondly, she maintains that idol, the Mass.
Lethington. She does not think that rebellion, but good religion.
Knox. So thought they that at one time offered their children to Moloch; and yet the Spirit of God affirms that they offered them unto devils, and not unto God. This day the Turks think they have a better religion than that of the Papists. I think ye will excuse neither of them from committing rebellion against God: nor can ye justly excuse the Queen, unless ye make God to be partial.