Protestantism in Scotland - James Aitken Wylie

doctrine exhibited in the four documents
mentioned above, compendiously styled the
"Westminster Standards." There will be only one
opinion respecting the logical fearlessness and
power, the theological comprehensiveness, and the
intellectual grandeur of these monuments. The
collected genius and piety of the age -- if we may
not call it the first, yet hardly inferior to the first
age of England's Protestantism -- were brought to
the construction of them. They have influenced less
the country in which they had their birth than they
have done other lands. During the succeeding years
they have been molding the opinions of
individuals, and inspiring the creed of Churches, in
all palaces of the world. They are felt as plastic
agencies wherever the English scepter is swayed or
the English tongue is spoken; nor are there yet any
decided signs that their supremacy is about to pass
away.
Footnotes:
1. Baillie, Letters, vol., i., p. 215.
2. The facts on this head given in Bennet's
329