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Title page of a 1638 Scottish confession and covenant publication, reusing the King’s Confession of 1580–81. This is a later document, not the original Scots Confession of 1560.
Picture source & rightsChurch of Scotland / Princeton Theological Seminary Library, via Internet Archive and Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · Resized without cropping and converted to WebP · Licence terms

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Scotland’s Reformation: Knox, confession and an unfinished settlement

Explore the 1560 settlement and its later legacy through confessions, disciplinary proposals and a carefully identified 1638 printed document.

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