Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Small capital text has been replaced with all capitals. The carat character (^) indicates that the following letter is superscripted (example: M^cGill). If two or more letters are superscripted they are enclosed in curly brackets (example: xxv^{to). [Illustration: title page] THE WORKS OF JOHN KNOX COLLECTED AND EDITED BY DAVID LAING, LL.D. VOLUME SECOND. EDINBURGH: JAMES THIN, 55 SOUTH BRIDGE. MDCCCXCV. WORKS OF JOHN KNOX. THE WODROW SOCIETY, INSTITUTED MAY 1841, FOR THE PUBLICATION OF THE WORKS OF THE FATHERS AND EARLY WRITERS OF THE REFORMED CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. AD SCOTOS TRANSEUNTIBUS PRIMUS OCCURRIT MAGNUS ILLE JOANNES CNOXUS, QUEM SI SCOTORUM IN VERO DEI CULTU INSTAURANDO, VELUT APOSTOLUM QUENDAM DIXERO, DIXISSE ME QUOD RES EST EXISTIMABO. THEOD. BEZA. Manufactured in the United States of America [Illustration: decoration] TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAGE ADVERTISEMENT, vii HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION IN SCOTLAND. BOOK THIRD, 1559-1561, 1 THE CONFESSION OF FAITH, 1560, 93 THE BUKE OF DISCIPLINE, 1560, 183 HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION IN SCOTLAND. BOOK FOURTH, 1561--1564, 261 INTRODUCTORY NOTICE TO BOOK FIFTH, 465 BOOK FIFTH, 1564-1567, 469 APPENDIX. No. I.--INTERPOLATIONS AND VARIOUS READINGS IN BOOK THIRD AND FOURTH IN BUCHANAN'S EDITIONS OF THE HISTORY, IN 1644, 569 NOTICES OF THE EDITOR, DAVID BUCHANAN, 584 No. II.--ON SPOTTISWOOD'S EDITION OF THE FIRST BOOK OF DISCIPLINE, 587 No. III.--FUNERALS OF MARY OF GUISE, QUEEN REGENT OF SCOTLAND, 590 No. IV.--NOTICES OF JOHN BLACK, A DOMINICAN FRIAR, 592 No. V.--NOTICES OF DAVID RICCIO, 595 No. VI.--THE ABBOTS OF CULROSS AND LINDORES IN 1560; AND JOHN LESLEY, BISHOP OF ROSS, 598 GLOSSARY, 603 INDEX OF PERSONS, 619 INDEX OF PLACES, 639 [Illustration: decoration] ADVERTISEMENT.