With the ascendency of Protestantism in Scotland, a revolutionary Parliament was convened at Edinburgh, 1560 , and commissioned John Knox to compile a new creed. Knox based his work on the Swiss Confessions. Known as the “Scottish Confession” it was ratified by Parliament and imposed as the religion of Scotland. It is of a Calvinistic nature, and remained until superseded by the Westminster Confession. James VI, 1581 , commissioned James Craig to draw up a condemnation of papistry. Known as the “King’s Confession,” or the “Scotica Secunda,” later as the “National Covenant,” it endorses the Confession of 1560 and proceeds with a vituperation of Catholicity . It remained for generations favored by the Scots. <\/p>\n
Confession, Scottish With the ascendency of Protestantism in Scotland, a revolutionary Parliament was convened at Edinburgh, 1560 , and commissioned John Knox to compile a new creed. Knox based his work on the Swiss Confessions. Known as the “Scottish Confession” it was ratified by Parliament and imposed as the religion of Scotland. It is of … Continue reading “Confession, Scottish”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}