ABSTRACT
In fact, John Knox's years in the England of Edward VI, from February 1549 to January 1554, yield very little of interest to the historian of his political ideas. At least in retrospect, the Christian common-wealth of Edwardian England had become for Knox a latter-day Judah or Israel, a covenanted community ruled by a godly prince in accordance with the law of God. In A Faithful Admonition, Knox took as one of his texts the New Testament story of Christ stilling the tempest and embarked on an elaborate comparison of 'the afflicted Church of God within the Realm of England' with a boat storm-tossed on a raging sea. A Faithful Admonition marks a distinct high point in the Englishing of Knox: nowhere else is his identification with England's secular and ecclesiastical structures more powerfully expressed. Knox's experience of it in Geneva, for example, that 'maist perfect school of Christ', needs much fuller consideration than it is possible to give it.
