The History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland

The SCOTS, by the most judicious Writers, and by those who have most diligently studied their Antiquities, are acknowledged to be among the first who embraced the Faith of Christ: yea, they are said to be, by some, of the very first-fruits of the Gentiles: For in few years after the Ascension of our Saviour Jesus Christ, the Apostles and Disciples being constrained to leave Jerusalem and Judea, by reason of the Persecutions raised against them by the Jews, according to the dispensation of the All-wise God, went up and down the world; and speaking to every People in their own Language, declared unto them the glad Tidings of Salvation in Christ Jesus.¹ Those who came into our Northern Parts, to wit, into Scotland, and first made known unto our Fathers the Mysteries of Heaven, were of the disciples of John the Apostle.

THe SCOTS, by the most judicious Writers, and by those who have most diligently studied their Antiquities, are acknowledged to be among the first who embraced the Faith of Christ: yea, they are said to be, by some, of the very first-fruits of the Gentiles: For in few yeers after the Ascension of our Saviour Jesus Christ, the Apostles and Disciples being constrained to leave Ierusalem and Iudea, by reason of the Persecutions raised against them by the Jews, according to the dispensation of the All-wise God, went up and down the world; and speaking to every People in their own Language, declared unto them the glad Tydings of Salvation in Christ Jesus.¹ Those who came into our Northern Parts, to wit, into Scotland, and first made known unto our Fathers the Mysteries of Heaven, were of the disciples of Iohn the Apostle.

1. 1Scoti ex discipulis Joannis Apostoli Christianismum edocti sunt. Buch. Lib. 5. Multi ex Britonibus Christiani saevitiam. Domitiani metuentes in Scotiam commigrarunt, è quib is complures doctrina & vitae integritate clari in eâ. subsisterunt. Buch. Lib. 4.