A History of Scotland, Chiefly in Its Ecclesiastical Aspect, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A History of Scotland, Chiefly in Its Ecclesiastical Aspect, Vol. 2 Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised Th'ee, is burnt up with fire and all our pleasant things are laid waste. - Isaiah lxiv. 10, 11. The Convention of the Estates of Scotland which met in Edinburgh in August 1560, marks a critical era in the national history. When the Three Estates met on the lst of August, Catholicism was the religion of the country when the Three Estates rose on the 24th of the same month, the Catholic hierarchy was abolished by law, and the Confession of Faith, drawn up by the leaders of the new opinions as a summary of their doctrines, was for mally ratified, and was received as the established creed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.