Church of Scotland
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The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
The national reformed Church of Scotland, whose confession of faith and liberties are the subject of the National Covenant reproduced in this window.
The confession of faith of the Kirk of Scotland, subscribed at first by the King’s Majesty and his household in the year of God 1580;
and therefore we believe with our hearts, confess with our mouths, subscribe with our hands, and constantly affirm 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, believed, and defended by many and sundry …
We noblemen, barons, gentlemen, burgesses, ministers, and commons under subscribing, considering divers times before, and especially at this time, the danger of the true reformed religion, of the King’s honour, and of the public peace of the kingdom, by the manifold innovations and evils generally contained and particularly mentioned in our late supplications, complaints, and protestations, do her …
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
The national Presbyterian Church of Scotland, in which James Mill briefly trained and preached before turning to philosophy.
This programme is the work of a hard-headed Scotchman who had enjoyed considerable experience of the world, had studied theology in order to become a minister of, and had for a short time been a preacher in, the Church of Scotland, yet his scheme reads almost like a grim joke, and was certainly far less applicable to the actual state of England than the proposal, already put forward by some Dissen …