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The History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland
The history of the reformation of the Church of Scotland containing five books : together with some treatises conducing to the history.The historie of the reformation of the Church of Scotland containing five books : together with some treatises conducing to the history.
London: printed by John Raworth for George Thomason and Octavian Pullen, 1644
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. First, •hat Images are not to be had in the Kirk, nor to be worshipped. 2. That the Relics of Saints are not to be worshipped. 3. That Laws & Ordinances of men, vary from time to time, and that by the Pope. 4. That it is not lawful to fight for the Faith, nor to defend the Faith by the Sword, if we be not driven to it by necessity, which is above all Law. 5. That Christ gave power to Peter, as also to the other Apostles, and not to the Pope his pretended Successor, to bind and loose within the Kirk. 6. That Christ ordained no Priests to consecrate as they do in the Romish Church, these many years. 7. That after the Consecration in the Mass, there remains Bread, and that there is not the natural Body of Christ. 8. That Tithes ought not to be given to Ecclesiastical men, as they were then called, to wit, wholly, but a part to the poor, widow, or orphans, & other pious uses. 9. That Christ at his coming hath taken away power from Kings to judge. This Article we doubt not to be the venomous accusation of the enemies, whose practise hath ever been to make the doctrine of Jesus Christ suspect to Kings and Rulers:1 As if God thereby would deprive them of their Royal Seats; While on the contrary nothing confirms the power of Magistrates more then doth Gods Truth. But to the Articles. 10. That every faithful man and women is a Priest, in that sense that they are called by the Apostle Saint John, Apoc. 1.6.5.10.20.6. 211. That the Unction of Kings, ceased at the coming of Christ; and truly it was but late since Kings were anointed, namely in Scotland, for Edgar was the first anointed King in Scotland, about the year 1100. 12. That the Pope is not the successor of Peter, but where he said, Go behind me Satan. 13. That the Pope deceives the people by his Bulls, and his Indulgences. 14. That the Mass profiteth not the souls, who in those days were said to be in Purgatory. 15. That the Pope and the Bishops deceive the people by their Pardons. 16. That Indulgences ought not to be granted to fight against the Saracens. 17. That the Pope exalts himself against God, and above God. 18. That the Pope cannot remit the pains of Purgatory. 19. That the blessings of the Bishops (of dumb Dogs they should have been styled) are of no value. ⟨p. 3⟩