6В But you have this in your favor: You hate the practices of the Nicolaitans, ( K) which I also hate.Д§В Whoever has ears, let them hear ( L) what the Spirit says to the churches. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand ( J) from its place. ( H) 5В Consider how far you have fallen! Repent ( I) and do the things you did at first.

( F) 3В You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name, ( G) and have not grown weary.Д¤В Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked people, that you have tested ( E) those who claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them false. ( C) 2В I know your deeds, ( D) your hard work and your perseverance. These are the words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand ( B) and walks among the seven golden lampstands. They slash themselves, appealing to their godsДЎ5В I trained ( CW) them and strengthened their arms,ДЎ6В They do not turn to the Most High ( CY) ( CS)ДЎ4В They do not cry out to me from their hearts ( CT) I will pull them down like the birds in the sky.Д«ut they speak about me ( CR) falsely. 12В When they go, I will throw my net ( CO) over them So soon as any great temptation apprehends us, then we begin to doubt if ever we believed GodвЂ™s promises-if God will fulfill them to us if we abide in his favor, if he regards and looks upon the violence and injury that is done unto us-and a multitude of such cogitations, which before lurked quietly in our corrupted hearts, burst violently forth when we are oppressed with any desperate calamity.ДЄgainst which this is the remedy: once to apprehend and still to retain God to be our God, and firmly to believe that we are his people whom he loves and will. But when he has given us over into the hands of our enemies, and turned, as it were, his back unto us, then still to reclaim him to be our God, and to have this assurance that we are his people, proceeds wholly from the Holy Spirit of God, as it is the greatest victory of faith, which overcomes the world-for increase whereof we ought continually to pray. This is the victory of faith, when the midst of death, through the light of GodвЂ™s Word, the afflicted see life.Д®asy it is in time of prosperity to say and to think that God is our God, and that we are his people. And finally I see that life shall devour death, so that death shall be destroyed, and so thy servants shall have life. I see honor and glory to succeed this temporal shame I see permanent joy to come after trouble, order to spring out of this terrible confusion. Some condensed excerpts from John KnoxвЂ™s sermon: The sermon, however, also contained comforting words for Protestants, whose newly won freedom was threatened by the Catholic monarchs.

In August 1565, Knox preached a sermon in front of the QueenвЂ™s husband and implied so many criticisms of the royal couple, he was forbidden to preach for a time.

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