An answer to a letter of a Jesuit named Tyrie, be John KnoxAn answer to a letter of a Iesuit named Tyrie, be Iohne Knox

And so may Jesus Christ this day be working in Scotland, albeit that Papists rage against his Evangel, as in those days he wrought in Jerusalem, when the Priests & the hole visible Kirk (for y• most part) raged against the same. But now to the second head.

And so may Iesus Christ this day be working in Scotland, albeit that Papistes rage against his Euangell, as in those dayes he wroght in Ierusalem, when the Preastes & the hole visible Kirk (for y• moste part) raged against the same. But now to the secund head.

We would know if the writer can appoint unto us any one certain place, where this holy mountain of God is promised to remain, manifestly and visible. For this we make known to the hole world, That for the love we bear to the building and repairing of God's holy house, we have endangered life and all things temporal. And therefore if the writer can appoint ⟨image 20⟩unto us a certain place, whereunto God hes maid promise: we shall every one exhort an other, with all diligence, to go up thereunto. But if he can appoint none, having greater assurance be God's mouth more then an other: Then will we charitably desire him to desist from taunting & mockage of so notable works of god, as he of late years hes shown in mo Realms then one. Our Master Christ Jesus appoints us to no one certain place, where that we shall be assured of his presence: but rather forbidding the observation of all places, he sends us to his own spiritual presence, saying: wheresoever two or three are gathered in my name, There am I in the middest of them. And in an other place,¹ Behold I am with you to the end of the world.² We being grounded upon these promises, have good hope through Jesus Christ, that in our Congregationis we have the favourable presence of Jesus Christ, aswell in his word, as in his holy sacraments. For in his name alone convene we, be him alone we call upon God our Father: and be him alone we are assured, through y power of his holy spirit, to obtain our requests made according to his will. We