Two small additions to Knox & Melville CP sets for completeness

Stephen Steele
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edited December 2024 in English Forum

Two suggestions of resources to add - which are already in (or in preparation for) Logos but buried deeply in big sets:

1. I see that the Classic Studies on John Knox collection is set to include the Scots Confession of Faith of 1560, most likely authored by a committee of six Johns, including Knox. Could I suggest also adding the First Book of Discipline, which was definitely drawn up by those same men, in 1560?

It's a relatively short document, available online here. It's also included in the Works of John Knox (edited by David Laing; Edinburgh: James Thin, 1895), Vol. 2, pp. 183-260 - which is already available in Logos.

2. Could I also suggest doing the same for the Second Book of Discipline of 1578 (also available at the above link), perhaps as part of the 2 volume Life of Andrew Melville, currently on CP. Melville was one of a 30+ men who came up with the document. As the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography states:

"he was not the chief author, and even his admiring nephew assigned no greater role to him than to the other participants. Nevertheless, the whole thrust of the programme outlined in the second Book of Discipline was entirely consistent with Melville's ideas."
James Kirk, ‘Melville, Andrew (1545–1622)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/18543, accessed 20 Sept 2013]

The text of the second book of discipline can be found in David Calderwood's History of the Kirk of Scotland (edited by Thomas Thomson; Edinburgh: Wodrow Society, 1843), Vol. 3, pp. 529-55 - which is currently in Logos CP.