[Sidenote: Deut. 6. Esai. 44.]
[Sidenote: Deut. 4. Mat. 28.]
[Sidenote: Gen. 1.]
[Sidenote: Esai.]
[Sidenote: Proverb. 16.]
WE confesse and acknawledge ane onlie God, to quhom onlie we must
cleave, [quhom onlie we must serve,][217] quhom onlie we must
wirschip, and in quhom onlie we must put our trust; quha is eternall,
infinite, unmesurable, incomprehensible, omnipotent, invysible: ane in
substance, and yit distinct in thre personis, the Father, the Sone,
and the Holie Ghost: Be quhom we confesse and beleif all thyngis in
hevin and in earth, alsweill visible as invisible, to haif bene
creatit, to be reteanit in thair being, and to be rewllit and gydeit
be his inscrutabill Providence, to sick end as his eternall wisdome,
gudnes, and justice hes appointit thame, to the manifestatioun of his
awin glorie.
[216] The numbers of the Chapters, and the marginal Scriptural
references are not contained in any of the MS. copies of Knox's
History. They are here supplied from the first edition of the
Confession, printed by Lekprevik in 1561, compared with the Acts of
Parliament of 1567, printed in 1568.
[217] These words, and such others as are inclosed within brackets,
are omitted in the copies of Knox. By "the old printed copies," in the
following notes to the Confession, is signified the editions printed
in 1561, and the several editions of the Acts of Parliament 1567.