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A34261 The confession of the faith and doctrine beleeved and professed be the Protestantes of Scotland exhibited to the estatis of the same in Parliament, and be their publick votis authorized, as a doctrine grounded upon the infallible VVord of God. Church of Scotland. 1681 (1681) Wing C5800; ESTC R40864 18,239 16

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THE CONFESSION OF THE FAITH and DOCTRINE Beleeved and Professed be the PROTESTANTES Of SCOTLAND Exhibited to the Estatis of the same in Parliament and be their publick votis authorized as a Doctrine grounded upon the infallible VVord of GOD. Published by Authority EDINBVRGH Re-Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson Printer to His most Sacred MAJESTY 1681. First Parliament xv of Decemb. 1567. THE CONFESSION OF THE FAITH and DOCTRINE Beleeved and Professed be the Protestantes of Scotland exhibited to the Estatis of the same in Parliament and be their publick votis authorized as a Doctrine grounded upon the infallible Word of GOD. 1. Of God Deut. 6.4 1 Cor. 8.6 Esay 44.5 6. Tim. 1.27 1 Kin. 8.17 2 Chro. 8.18 Psal 139.7 8. Gen. 17.1 1 Tim. 6.15 16. Ex. 3.14 15 Mat. 28.19 1 Ioh. 5.7 Gen. 1.1 He 11.3 Act. 17.28 Pro. 16.4 WE confesse and acknawledge ane only GOD to whom onelie we must cleaue whome onelie we must serue whom onelie we must worship and in whom onlie we must put our trust Who is Eternal Infinit Vnmeasurable Incomprehensible Omnipotent Invisible ane in substance and yet distinct in three personnis the Father the Sonne the holy Ghost Be whom we confesse and beleue all thing is in heauen and earth aswel Visible as Invisible to haue bene created to be reteined in their being and to be ruled and guyded be his inscrutable Providence to sik end as his Eternall Wisdome Goodnes and Iustice hes appoynted them to the manifestatioun of his awin glorie 2. Of the Creatioun of man WE confesse and acknawledge this our GOD to haue created man Gen. 1.26 27 28 c. Col. 3.10 Eph. 4.24 Gen. 3.6 Gen. 2.17 to wit our first father Adam to his awin Image and similitude to whome he gaue wisedome Lordship Iustice Free-wil and cleir knowledge of him selfe sa that in the haill nature of man there culd be noted no imperfectioun Fra quhilk honour and perfectioun man and woman did bothe fal the woman being deceived be the Serpent and man obeying the voyce of the woman both conspyring against the Soveraigne Maiestie of GOD who in expressed words had before threatned death gif they presumed to eat of the forbidden tree 3. Of Original sin BE quhilk transgressioun commonlie called Original sinne Psal 51.7 Rom. 5.10 Rom. 7.5 2 Tit. 2.26 Ep. 2.1 2 3 Rom. 5.14 21. Rom. 6 23 wes the Image of GOD vtterlie defaced in man and he and his posteritie of nature become Enemies to GOD slaves to Sathan and servandis vnto sin In samekle that death everlasting hes had and sall haue power and dominioun over all that haue not been ar not or sal not be regenerated from aboue quhilk regeneratioun is wrocht be the power of the holie Ghost working in the hartes of the elect of God Iohn 3.5 Rom. 5.1 Phil. 1.29 ane assured faith in the promise of God reveiled to vs in his word be quhilk Faith we apprehend Christ Iesus with the graces and benefites promised in him 4 Of the Revelatioun of the promise FOR this we constantly beleeue that God after the feirfull and horrible defectioun of man fra his obedience did seek Adam again call upon him Gen. 3.9 Gen. 3.15 Gen. 12.3 Gen 15.5.6 2 Sam. 7.14 Esay 7.14 Esay 9.6 Hag. 2.6 ●oh 8.56 rebuke his sin convict him of the same and in the end made vnto him ane most joyful promise to wit that the seed of the woman suld break down the Serpents head that is he suld destroy the works of the devill Quhilk promise as it was repeated and made mair cleare from time to time so was it imbraced with joy and maist constantly received of al the faithfull from Adam to Noe from Noe to Abraham from Abraham to David and so forth to the incarnatioun of Christ Iesus all we meane the faithfull Fathers vnder the Law did see the joyful daie of Christ Iesus and did rejoyce 5 The continuance increase and preservatioun of the Kirk Ezech. 6.6 8.9 c. Gen. 12.1 Gen. 13.1 Exod. 1.1 Exod. 1.20 Iosh 1.3 23.4 1 Sa. 10.1 1 Sa. 16.13 2 Sa. 7.12 2 King 17 13 2 King 17 15 16 c. 2 King 24 3 4 c. Deut. 28.36.48 2 King 25 1 c. Dan 9 2 Ezr 1 c Hag 1 14 Zach 3 1 WE maist constantly beleeue that God preserved instructed multiplied honoured decored and from death called to life his Kirk in all ages fra Adam till the cumming of Christ Iesus in the flesh For Abraham he called from his Fathers cuntry him he instructed his seede he multiplied the same he marveilouslie preserued and mair marveilouslie delivered from the bondage and tyrannie of Pharaoh to them he gaue his Lawes constitutions and ceremonies them he possessed in the Land of Canaan to them after Iudges and after Saul he gave David to be King to whome hee made promise that of the fruite of his loynes suld anesit for ever vpon his Regal seat To this same people from time to time he sent Prophets to reduce them to the right way of their God from the quhilk oftentimes they declined be Idolatry And albeit that for their stubborn contempt of Iustice he was compelled to give them in the hands of their enimies as befoir was threatned be the mouth of Moses in sa meikle that the haly Cittie was destroyed the Temple burnt with fire and the hail Land left desolate the space of lxx ȝears Ȝit of mercy did he reduce them again to Ierusalem where the Cittie and Temple were reedified and they against all temptations and assaultes of Sathan did abide till the Messias come according to the promise 6 Of the Incarnation of Christ Iesus QVHEN the fulnes of time came God sent his Sonne his eternal Wisdome the substance of his awin glory in this warld quha tuke the nature of man-head of the substance of woman Gal 4 4 Luk 1 31 Mat 1 18. Mat 2 1 Rom. 1 3 Mat 1 23 Ioh 1 1. 4 5 1 Tim 2 5 to wit of a Virgine and that be operatioun of the holie Ghost And so was born the just seede of David the Angell of the great counsell of God the very Messias promised whome we confesse and acknawledge Emmanuel very God and very man two perfit natures vnited and joyned in one persoun Be quhilk our Confessioun we condemn the damnable and pestilent heresies of Arrius Marcion Eutyches Nestorius and sik vthers as either did deny the eternity of his godhead or the veritie of his humane nature or confounded them or ȝet devided them 7. Why it behooued the Mediator to be very God and very man WE acknawledge and confesse Eph 1 3 4 5 6 that this maist wonderous conjunction betwixt the God-head and the man-head in Christ Jesus did proceed from the eternal and immutable decree of God from quhilk all our Salvation springs and depends 8. Electioun FOr that same eternal God and Father