(Prof.Hume-Brown writes that "the penalties attached to the breach of these enactments" (namely, the abjuration of Papal jurisdiction, the condemnation of all practices and doctrines contrary to the new creed, and of the celebration of Mass in Scotland) "were those approved and sanctioned by the example of every country in Christendom." But not, surely, for the same offences, such as "the saying or hearing of Mass"?
--' History of Scotland,' ii.

71, 72: 1902.) Suits in ecclesiastical were removed into secular courts (August 29).
In the Confession the theology was that of Calvin.

Civil rulers were admitted to be of divine institution, their duty is to "suppress idolatry," and they are not to be resisted "when doing that which pertains to their charge." But a Catholic ruler, like Mary, or a tolerant ruler, as James VI.

would fain have been, apparently may be resisted for his tolerance.

Resisted James was, as we shall see, whenever he attempted to be lenient to Catholics.
The Book of Discipline, by Knox and other preachers, never was ratified by the Estates, as the Confession of Faith had been.