THE CONFESSION OF FAITH Of the KIRK of SCOTLAND.  EZR. Chap. 10. vers. 5. Then arose Ezra, and made the chief Priests and the Levites and all Israel to swear, that they should do according to rhis word of the Lord: and they swear. ISAIAH 44. 5. One shall say, I am the Lords, another shall subscrive with his hand unto the Lord, etc. 
TOT ROTTERDAM, Gedruct by de Weduwe van Matthijs Wagens, Boeckverkoopster op de Blaeck, by de Visch-marckt, ANNO 1655.   

THis Confession was subscriued and authorised by the King and Counsel in the Year 1580. and by the Nationall assembly in the Year 1581. and subscriued again by all sorts of people in the Year 1590., by a new ordinance of Counsel, at the desire of the Nationall Assembly; and renewed by the King's Commissioner and Counsel and Nationall Assembly in the Year 1638. and again ratified (with addition of a promise to live holily) by the King's Commissioner and the Counsel and Nationall Assembly in the Year 1639. and confirmed by the King and Parliament at the desire of the Nationall Assembly in the Year 1642. and is followed by the Scots Congregation at Rotterdam since the Year 1644; without the Politic or Civil part thereof, as not belonging unto these who live under another government.   

The Confession of Faith OF The Kirke of SCOTLAND.  
WE All, and every one of Us under-written, Protest; that after long and due Examination of our own conscience, in matters of true & false Religion, are now throughly resolved of the Truth, by the Word and Spirit of GOD, and therefore we believe with our hearts, confess with our mouths, subscribe with our hands, and constantly affirm before God, and the whole World: that this only is true Christian Faith and Religion, pleasing God and bringing Salvation to man, which now is by the mercy of God revealed to the world, by the preaching of the blessed Evangell, And received, believed, and defended, by many and sundry notable Kirkes' and Realms, but chiefly by the Kirk of Scotland, the King's Majesty, and three estates of this Realm, as Gods eternal Truth, and only ground of our Salvation: as more particularly is expressed in the Confession of our Faith, established, and publicly confirmed by sundry Acts of Parliaments, and now of a long time hath been openly professed by the King's Majesty, and whole body of this Realm both in Burgh and Land. To the which Confession and form of Religion, we willingly agree in our consciences in all points, as unto God's undoubted Truth and Verity, grounded only upon his written Word. And therefore, we abhor and detest all contrary Religion, and Doctrine: But chiefly, all kind of Papisterie, in general and particular heads, even as they are now damned and confuted by the Word of God, and Kirk of Scotland: but in special we detest and refuse the usurped authority of that Roman Antichrist upon the Scriptures of God, upon the Kirk, the civil Magistrate, and consciences of men: All his tyrannous laws made upon indifferent things against our Christian liberty: His erroneous Doctrine, against the sufficiency of the written Word, the perfection of the Law, the office of Christ, and his blessed Evangell: His corrupted Doctrine concerning original sin, our natural inability & rebellion to God's Law, our justification by Faith only, our imperfect Sanctification and obedience to the Law, the nature, number and use of the Holy Sacraments; His five bastard Sacraments, with all his Ri●es, Ceremonies, and false Doctrine, added to the ministration of the true Sacraments without the Word of God: His cruel judgement against Infants departing without the Sacrament: his absolute necessity of Baptism: his blasphemous opinion of Transubstantiation, of real presence of Christ's body in the Elements, and receiving of the same by the wicked, or bodies of men: His dispensations with solemn Oaths, Perjuries, and degrees of Marriage forbidden in the Word: his cruelty against the innocent divorced: his devilish Mass: his blasphemous Priesthood: his profane Sacrifice for the sins of the dead: his Canonization of men, calling upon Angels or Saints departed, worshipping of Imagery, Relics, & Crosses, dedicating of Kirks, Altars, Days, Vows to creatures; his Purgatory, Prayers for the dead, praying, or speaking in a strange language, with his Processions and blasphemous Litany, and multitude of Advocates or Mediators: his manifold Orders, Auricular Confession: his desperate and uncertain Repentance; his general and doubtsome Faith; his satisfactions of men for their sins: his justification by works, opus operatum, works of Supererogation, Merits, Pardons, Peregrinations, and Stations: his holy Water, baptising of Bells, conjuring of Spirits. crossing, saning, anointing, conjuring, hallowing of God's good creatures, with the superstitious opinion, joined therewieh: his wordlie Monarchy, and wicked Hierarchy: his three solemn vows, with all his shavelling of sundry sorts; his erreneous and bloody decrees made at Trent, with all the subscribers and approvers of that cruel and bloody Band, conjured against the Kirk of God: and finally, we detest all his vain Allegories, Rites, Signs, and Traditions, brought in the Kirk, without, or against the Word of God, and Doctrine of this true reformed Kirk; to the which we join ourselves willingly, in Doctrine, Faith, Religion, Discipline, and use of the Holy Sacraments as lively members of the same, in Christ our Head: promising, and swearing by the Great Name of the Lord our GOD, that we shall continue in the obedience of the Doctrine and Discipline of this Kirk, and shall defend the same according to our Vocation and Power, all the days of our lives, under the pains contained in the Law, and danger both of Body and soul, in the day of God's fearful judgement: and seeing that many are stirred up by Satan, and that Roman Antichrist, to promise, swear, subscribe, and for a time use the holy Sacraments in the Kirk, deceitfully, against their own consciences, minding thereby, first, under the external cloak of Religion, to corrupt and subvert secretly God's true Religion within the Kirk, and afterward, when time may serve, to become open enemies and persecutors of the same, under vain hope of the Pope's dispensation, devised against the Word of God, to his greater confusion, and their double condemnation in the day of the Lord LORD JESUS, We, therefore, willing to take away all suspicion of hypocrisy, and of such double dealing with God and his Kirk, Protest, and call The Searcher of all hearts for witness, that Our minds and hearts, do fully agree with this our Confession, Promise, Oath and Subscription, so that We are not moved for any wordlie respect, but are persuaded only in our Consciences, through the knowledge and love of God's true Religion, printed in Our hearts, by the holy Spirit, as We shall answer to him in the day, when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed. And because we cannot look for a blessing from God upon our proceed; except with our Profession and Subscription we join such a life and conversation, as beseemeth Christians, who have renewed their Covenant with God, We, therefore, faithfully promise, for ourselves, our followers, and all others under us, both in public, in our particular families and personal carriage, to endeavour to keep ourselves within the bounds of Christian liberty, and to be good examples to others of all Godliness, Soberness, and Righteousness, and of every duty we own to God and Man, and that this our Union and Conjunction may be observed without violation, We call the living God, the Searcher of our Hearts, to witness, who knoweth this to be our sincere Desire, and unfeigned Resolution, as we shall answer to JESUS CHRIST, in the great day, and under the pain of God's everlasting wrath, and of infamy, and of loss of all honour and respect in this World: Most humbly beseeching the LORD, to strengthen us by his holy Spirit for this end: and to bless our desires and proceed with a happy success, that Religion and Righteousness may flourish in the Land, to the glory of God, the honour of our King, and peace and comfort of us all. In witness whereof we have subscribed with our hands all the premises.