The Huguenots in Paris, in 1559, "established a record" by drawing up a Confession containing eighty articles in three days.

Knox and his coadjutors were relatively deliberate.

They aver that all points of belief necessary for salvation are contained in the canonical books of the Bible.

Their interpretation pertains to no man or Church, but solely to "the spreit of God." That "spreit" must have illuminated the Kirk as it then existed in Scotland, "for we dare not receive and admit any interpretation which directly repugns to any principal point of our faith, to any other _plain_ text of Scripture, or yet unto the rule of charity." As we, the preachers of the Kirk then extant, were apostate monks or priests or artisans, about a dozen of us, in Scotland, mankind could not be expected to regard "our" interpretation, "our faith" as infallible.
The framers of the Confession did not pretend that it was infallible.
They request that, "if any man will note in this our Confession any article or sentence repugning to God's Holy Word," he will favour them with his criticism in writing.

As Knox had announced six years earlier, that, "as touching the chief points of religion, I neither will give place to man or angel.