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COLLECTION

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Confeflions of Faith, CATECHISMS, DIRECTORIES, BOOKS of DISCIPLINE, C.

Of publick Authority in the Church of Scotland:

Together with

All the aas of Affembly, which are STANDING RULES Concerning the DOCTRINE, WORSHIP, GoVERNMENT and DISCIPLINE of the CHURCH of SCOTLAND.

VOL. II.

EDINBURGH,

Printed by JAMES WATSON His Majefty's Printer. MDCCXxii.

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HIS Volume, which contains the Con
feffions of Faith,Catechifms, Directo-
ries, Books of Difcipline, &c. ap-
proved and used by the Church of Scotland,
from the Reformation to the Year 1638,
having fwelled to a greater Bulk than was
expected, that which was defigned for a
Preface to it, is left to the third Volume.

THE

CONTENTS

I.

OF THE

Second VOLUME.

1. THE Confeffion of Faith, used in
the English Congregation at Ge⇒

neva, received and approved by the

Church of Scotland, in the Begin-

ning of the Reformation. Page 3.

This is according to a Copy printed 1600. compared

with the Geneva Edition, 1558.

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II. The

Etrine, belevit and profeffit be the
Proteftantis of Scotland, &c. P. 13.

The English is printed according to the Copy which is in Sir John Skene's Edition of the Acts of Parliament compared with many other Editions, particularly, with that in the Acts of Parliament printed in the Saxon Cha racter; from which it differs only in the Syllabication of fome Words. The Latin is according to Leckprek's Impreffion 1572. It was done by Mr. Patrick Adamfon at the Defire of the Kirk, and is a much better Verfion than that which is in the Syntagma Confeffionum. The Scriptures are according to Tindal's and Coverdale's Vertion of the Bible, which was commonly used by the Pro teftants in Britain at the Reformation.

III. A general Confeffion of trew Chriftian Faith and Religion, according to Godis Word and Acts of Parliament, fubfcribit be the King's Majefty and his Houfbald, &c.

P. 103,

This is printed according to an old Manufcript, com pared with a great many Copies, particularly, that which is in the Graduation Book of the Univerfity of Edinburgh, written 1585. The original Parchment, in Sir John Maxwel of Pollock's Hands, fubfcribed at Holy-rood-house, the 25 of February 158. by the King, Lennox, Huntley, the Chancellor and about 95 other Perfons: And with the Copy printed by Robert Waldgrave, 1581. The A&s of Affembly prefixed to it, are printed from the Manu fcript Acts of Affembly, The King's Proclamation is in all the old Editions,