THE SECOND BOOK OF DISCIPLINE

OR

HEADS AND CONCLUSIONS OF THE POLITY OF THE CHURCH

AGREED UPON IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY 1578.

Inserted in the Registers of Assembly 1581.

Sworn to in the National Covenant, revived and ratified by the Assembly 1638, and by many other Acts of Assembly.

AND ACCORDING TO WHICH THE CHURCH GOVERNMENT IS ESTABLISHED BY LAW, AN. 1592 and 1690.

The text in modernised English spelling here adopted is taken from The Subordinate Standards and Formularies of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria authorised by the General Assembly of that Church, 23 November, 1893.