Book of Discipline (Church of Scotland)

Book of Discipline (Church of Scotland)

This "Book of Discipline" refers to two works regulative of ecclesiastical order in the Church of Scotland after the Scottish Reformation. They were drawn up by drawn up by John Knox and others on the Geneva model.
*The First Book of Discipline (1560)
*The Second Book of Discipline 1578


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