The Scots Confession of Faith

By John Knox

The Scots Confession of Faith is a book by John Knox. It details the faith confessional process by an author who was clergyman and a leader of the Protestant Reformation in Scotland.

• Language: English
• Publisher: DigiCat
• Release date: May 29, 2022
• ISBN: 8596547019190

John Knox

John Knox first became an observer of American politics during the Perot campaign of 1992. He has held a wide range of working class jobs. John is a lover of history, a fan of classic films, and literature. John wrote his Third House of Congress while watching, as so many Americans, were unable to change federal policies that imposed upon their lives.

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John Knox

The Scots Confession of Faith

EAN 8596547019190

DigiCat, 2022

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Of God

Chapter 2: Of the Creation of Man

Chapter 3: Of Original Sin

Chapter 4: Of the Revelation of the Promise

Chapter 5: The Continuance, Increase, and Preservation of the Kirk

Chapter 6: Of the Incarnation of Christ Jesus

Chapter 7: Why It Behoved the Mediator to be Very God and Very Man

Chapter 8: Election

Chapter 9: Christ's Death, Passion, Burial, etc.

Chapter 10: Resurrection

Chapter 11: Ascension

Chapter 12: Faith in the Holy Ghost

Chapter 13: The Cause of Good Works

Chapter 14: What Works are Reputed Good before God

Chapter 15: The Perfection of the Law and Imperfection of Man

Chapter 16: Of the Kirk

Chapter 17: The Immortality of the Souls

Chapter 19: The Authority of the Scriptures

Chapter 20: Of General Councils, of Their Power, Authority, and Causes of Their Convention

Chapter 21: Of the Sacraments

Chapter 22: Of the Right Administration of the Sacraments

Chapter 23: To Whom the Sacraments Appertain

Chapter 24: Of the Civil Magistrate

Chapter 25: The Gifts Freely Given to the Kirk

Chapter 1: Of God

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We confess and acknowledge one only God, to whom only we must cleave, whom only we must serve, whom only we must worship, and in whom only we must put our trust:[1] who is eternal, infinite, immeasurable, incomprehensible, omnipotent, invisible;[2] one in substance, and yet distinct in three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost;[3] by whom we confess and believe all things in heaven and in earth, as well visible as invisible, to have been created, to be retained in their being, and to be ruled and guided by his inscrutable Providence, to such end as his eternal wisdom, goodness, and justice has appointed them, to the manifestation of his own glory.[4]

1. Deut. 6:4; 1 Cor. 8:6; Deut. 4:35; Isa. 44:5-6.

2. 1 Tim. 1:17; 1 Kings 8:27; 2 Chron. 6:18; Ps. 139:7-8; Gen. 17:1; 1 Tim. 6:15-16; Ex. 3:14-15.

3. Matt. 28:19; 1 John 5:7.

4. Gen. 1:1; Heb. 11:3; Acts 17:28; Prov. 16:4.

Chapter 2: Of the Creation of Man

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We confess and acknowledge this our God to have created man (to wit, our first father Adam) to his own image and similitude, to whom he gave wisdom, lordship, justice, free will, and clear knowledge of himself; so that in