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The confession of faith of the Kirk of Scotland; with the bond or covenant subscribed unto by the whole kingdome.; Scottish Confession of Faith (1580)
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Church of Scotland.
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1641
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Wing C4202C; Thomason 669.f.4[2]; ESTC R205450
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The Confession of Faith of the Kirk of Scotland with the Bond or Covenant subscribed unto by the whole Kingdome THe Confession of Faith subscribed at first by the Kings Majesty and his houshold in the yeare of God 1580. Thereafter by persons of all ranks in the yeare 1581 by ordinance of the Lords of the Secret Councell and Acts of the generall Assembly Subscribed againe by all sorts of persons in the yeare 1590 by a new ordinance of Councell at the desire of the generall Assembly with a generall Bond for maintainance of the true religion and the Kings person And now subscribed in the yeare 1638 by us Noblemen Barons Gentlemen Burgesses Ministers and Commons under subscribing together with our resolution and promises for the causes after specified to maintaine the said true religion and the Kings Majesty according to the Confession aforesaid and Acts of Parliament the tenor wherof here followeth WE all and every one of us underwritten protest that after long and due examination of our own consciences in matters of true and false religion are now throughly resolved of the truth by the word Spirit of God therfore we beleeve with our hearts confesse with our mouths subscribe with our hands and constantly affirme before God and the whole world that this only is the true Christian Faith and Religion pleasing God and bringing salvation to man which now is by the mercy of God revealed to the world by the preaching of the blessed Evangel And received beleived and defended by many and sundry notable Kirks and Realmes but chiefely by the Kirk of Scotland the Kings Majesty and our Estates of this Realme as Gods eternall truth and only ground of our salvation as more particularly is expressed in the Confession of our faith stablished and confirmed by many Acts of Paliaments and now of a long time hath been openly professed by the Kings Majesty and whole body of this Realm both in Burgh and Land To the which Confession and forme of religion we willingly agree in our consciences in all points as unto Gods undoubted truth and verity grounded only upon his written word and therefore we abhorre and detest all contrary religion and doctrine but chiefely all kinde of Papistry in generall and particular heads even as they are now damned and confuted by the word of God and Kirk of Scotland but in especiall we detest and refuse the usurped authority of that Romane Antichrist upon the Scriptures of God upon the Kirk the civill Magistrate and consciences of men all his tyrannous lawes made upon indifferent things against our Christian liberty his erroneous doctrine against the sufficiency of the written word and the perfection of the Law the office of Christ his blessed Evangel His corrupted doctrine concerning originall sinne our naturall inability and rebellion to Gods law our justification by faith only our imperfect sanctification and obedience to the Law the nature number and use of the holy Sacraments His five baftard Sacraments with all his rites ceremonies and false doctrine added to the ministration of the true Sacraments without the word of God His cruell judgement against Infants departing without the Sacrament his absolute necessity of Baptisme his blasphemous opinion of Transubstantiation or reall presence of Christs body in the elements and receiving of the same by the wicked or bodies of men his dispensations with solemne Oathes perjuries and degrees of marriage forbidden in the word his cruelty against the innocent divorced his devellish Masse his blasphemous priesthood his prophane Sacrifices for the sinnes of the dead the quick his Canonization of men calling upon Angels or Saints departed worshipping of imagerie relicts and crosses dedicating of kirkes Altars dayes vowes to creatures his purgatory prayers for the dead praying or speaking in a strange language with his processions and blasphemous lettany and multitude of advocates or mediatours his manifold orders auricular confession his desperate and uncertaine repentance his generall and doubtsome faith his satisfaction of men for their sinnes his justifications by works opus operatum workes of supererogation merits pardons peregrinations and stations his holy water baptizing of bells conjuring of spirits crossing saning anointing conjuring hallowing of Gods good creatures with the superstitious opinion joyned there with his wordly Monarchy and wicked Hierarchy his three solemne vowes with all his shavelings of sundry sorts his erronious and bloody decrees made at Trent with all the subscribers and approvers of that cruell and bloody band conjured against the Kirk of God and finally we detest all his vaine allegories rites signes and traditions brought in the Kirk without or against the word of God and doctrine of this true reformed Kirk to the which we joyne our selves willingly in doctrine faith religion discipline and use of the Holy Sacraments as lively members of the same in Christ our Head promising and swearing by the great name of God our Lord That we shall continue in the obedience of the doctrine and discipline of this Kirk and shall defend the same according to our vocation and power all the dayes of our lives under the paines contained in the law and danger both of body and soule in the day of Gods fearefull Iudgements And seeing that many are stirred up by Sathan and that Roman Antichrist to promise sweare subscribe and for a time use the holy Sacraments in the Kirk deceitfully against their owne consciences minding thereby first under the Externall cloak of religion to corrupt and subvert secretly Gods true religion within the Kirk and afterward when time may serve to become open enimies and persecutours of the same under vain hope of the Popes dispensation devised against the word of God to his greater confusion and their double condemnation in the day of the Lord Iesus Christ We therefore willing to take away all suspition of hypocrisie and of such double dealing with God and his Kirk protest and call the scearcher of all hearts for witnesse that our mindes and hearts do fully agree with this our Confession Promise Oath and Subscription so that we are not moved for any worldly respect but are perswaded only in our consciences through the knowledge and love of Gods true Religion printed in our hearts by the holy Spirit as we shall answer to him in the day when the secrets of all hearts shall bee disclosed and because we perceive that the quietnesse and stability of our Religion and Kirk doth depend upon the safety and good behaviour of the Kings Majesty as upon a comfortable instrument of Gods mercy granted to this Countrey for the maintaining of his Kirk and ministration of justice amongst us we protest and promise with our hearts under the same oath handwrit and paines that we shall defend his royall person and authority with our goods bodies and lives in the defence of Christ his Evangel Liberties of our Countrey ministration of justice and punishment of iniquity against all enimies within this Realme or