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We are Confessional Calvinists and a Prayer Book Church-people. In 2012, we remembered the 350th anniversary of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer; also, we remembered the 450th anniversary of John Jewel's sober, scholarly, and Reformed "An Apology of the Church of England." In 2013, we remembered the publication of the "Heidelberg Catechism" and the influence of Reformed theologians in England, including Heinrich Bullinger's Decades. For 2014: Tyndale's NT translation. For 2015, John Roger, Rowland Taylor and Bishop John Hooper's martyrdom, burned at the stakes. Books of the month. December 2014: Alan Jacob's "Book of Common Prayer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Book-Common-Prayer-Biography-Religious/dp/0691154813/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417814005&sr=8-1&keywords=jacobs+book+of+common+prayer. January 2015: A.F. Pollard's "Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation: 1489-1556" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-English-Reformation-1489-1556/dp/1592448658/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420055574&sr=8-1&keywords=A.F.+Pollard+Cranmer. February 2015: Jaspar Ridley's "Thomas Cranmer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-Jasper-Ridley/dp/0198212879/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422892154&sr=8-1&keywords=jasper+ridley+cranmer&pebp=1422892151110&peasin=198212879

Monday, August 25, 2014

25 August 1618 A.D. Five Articles of Perth—5 Scottish Trifles & Cantankerousnesses


25 August 1618 A.D.  Five Articles of Perth—5 Scottish Trifles and Cantankerousnesses


 

No author. “The Five Articles of Perth (1618).”  Reformation History.  N.d. http://reformationhistory.org/fivearticlesofperth.html.  Accessed 25 Aug 2014.

 

The Five Articles of Perth (1618)
The Five Articles of Perth were five episcopal and Roman Catholic worship practices that were forced on the church by king James VI in 1618. The articles were accepted by Parliament in 1621 and became the law of the land, but many of the people were very unhappy with them.
The five articles were:
1.      Kneeling rather than sitting at the Lord’s Supper.
2.      Private Communion.
3.      Baptism not withheld longer than one Lord’s Day and administered privately where necessary (ie if the baby was about to die).
4.      Confirmation by bishops.
5.      The observance of holy days such as Christmas and Easter.
In opposition to this, the Reformed church believed that kneeling at communion made it like the Roman Catholic mass, baptism wasn’t needed for salvation, there was no need for bishops or confirmation by them and that the only holy day that the New Testament church was meant to observe was the weekly Lord’s Day.
Some of the ministers who refused to accept the Five Articles, such as David Dickson, were removed from their churches. Others were put in prison.
The Five Articles were condemned and repealed by the Glasgow Assembly of 1638.
Read more:
J. G. Vos, The Scottish Covenanters (Edinburgh, 1998 [1940]), pp 38-9.
DSCHT: Perth, Five Articles of
George Gillespie, Dispute against the English popish ceremonies (Leiden, 1637).

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