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SCOTLAND, CHURCH OF - Online Information article about SCOTLAND, CHURCH OF |
 | | The Scottish church, hitherto without a definite constitution, soon espoused under his able leadership a logical and thorough Presbyterianism, which was expressed in the Second Book of Discipline, adopted by the assembly in 1577, and was never afterwards set aside by the church when acting freely. |
 | | The church was at the time very powerful, the people generally sympathizing with her system, and her assemblies being attended by many of the nobles and the foremost men.. |
 | | union with them, and many of them were put out of their livings, ostensibly by way of discipline. |
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