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P. J. Lennox. Scotland, Established Chxirch of, the religious organization which has for three centuries and a half claimed the adherence of the majority of the inhabi-
tants of Scotland, ma\- be said to date from August,
1560, in which month the Scottish Parliament, as-
sembled in Edinburgh without any writ from the
sovereign, decided that the Protestant Confession
of Faith (drawn up on much the same lines as the
Confession of Westminster) should henceforth be the
established, and only authorized, creed of the Scot-
t ish Kingdom. The same Parliament abolished papal
jurisdiction, and forbade the celebration or hearing
of Mass under penalty of death; but it made no
provision for the appointment of the new clergy,
nor for their maintenance. At the first General As-
sembly, however, of the newly-constituted body, held
in December, 1560, the First Book of Discipline
was approved in which not only doctrinal questions
and the conduct of worship were minutely legislated
for, but detailed regulations were drawn up for the
election and admission of ministers, and for their
support on a generous scale from the confiscated
revenues of the ancient Church. Scotland was
divided ecclesiastically into ten districts, for each of
which was appointed a superintendent to travel
about, institute ministers, and generally set the
Church in order. A scheme of popular and higher
education was also sketched out, for which the early
Scottish Reformers have been highly lauded; but
it was never carried out, and the whole educational
work of the founders of the Kirk consisted in purging
the schools and universities of "idolatrous regents"
(i. e. Catholic teachers), more than a century being
allowed to elapse before there was any attempt at
national education in Presbyterian Scotland.
The fact was that the greedy nobles who had fallen on and divided amongst themselves the possessions of the Catholic Church, absolutely refused to dis- gorge them, notwithstanding their professed zeal for the new doctrines. Only a sixth part of the eccle- siastical revenues was grudgingly doled out for the support of the ministers, and even that was paid with great irregularity. The grasping avarice of the nobles was also responsible for all delay and difficulties in settling the system of church government on Presby- terian principles, as desired by the Protestant leaders. The barons saw with dismay the life-interest of the old bishops and abbots (preserved to them by the legislation of 1560) gradually lapsing, and their pos- sessions falling to the Church. In a convention held in 1572 the lords actually procured the restora- tion of the old hierarchical titles, the quasi-bishops thus created being merely catspaws to the nobles, who ho[)ed through them to get possession of all the remaining ecclesiastical endowments. Although the General Assembly refused to recognize this sham episcopate, the fact of its existence kept alive the idea that Episcopacy might eventually be the established form of government in the Scottish, as in the Eng- lish, Protestant Church; and the question of Prelacy versus Presbytery remained a burning one for more than a century longer. During the long reign of James VI, whose vacillating character induced him first to cajole the Church with promises of spiritual independence and then to harass her by measures of the most despotic Erastianism, the religious condi- tion of Scotland was in a state of continual ferment. The king succeeded in getting the bishops author- ized to sit in Parliament in 1600; and when, three years later, he succeeded to the Crown'of England, he openly proclaimed his favourite maxim, "No bishop, no king", declared Presbyterianism incompatible with monarchy, suppressed the right of free assembly, and tried and punished the leaders of the Scottish Church for high treason. The discontent caused in Scotland by these high-handed measures came to a head after his death, when his son and successor, Charles I, visited Scotland in 1633, and professed himself pained by the baldness of public worship. His im- position, four years later, of the English 'liturgy oa
