Excerpt from The Works of John Knox, Vol. 3: Collected and Edited by David Laing, LL. D The manner of his public vocation to the ministry in the Great Church of St Andrews. He has recorded in his History of the Reformation. At this time he was in the forty-second year of his age; and his previous scholastic studies may have served to qualify him for thus unexpectedly being called upon to assume the ministerial office. But whatever reluctance he may have felt in complying with this public desire of the Con gregation at St Andrews, he seems on no subsequent occasion to have faltered in his resolution, under the greatest difficul ties or discouragements. The notices of his first Sermon, and of his Disputation with Friar Arbuckle in St Leonard's Col lege, contained in his Historyf were probably extracted from the account which he transmitted from France to his brethren who remained at St Andrews, and these may be referred to as the earliest specimens of his literary composition that have been preserved. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.