through the Great Hall of Edinburgh Castle before the assembled Parliament. It boldly declared, “Rebirth is wrought by the power of the Holy Spirit creating in the hearts of God’s chosen ones an assured faith in the promise of God revealed to us in his word; by this faith we grasp Christ Jesus with the graces and blessings promised in him.”64 On August 17, 1560, an enthusiastic Parliament voted to approve the Protestant confession, thereby agreeing that Roman Catholicism, “the old system, was rotten
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