Excerpt from The Confessions of Faith and the Books of Discipline of the Church of Scotland, of Date Anterior to the Westminster Confession: To Which Are Prefixed, a Historical View of the Church of Scotland From the Earliest Period to the Time of the Reformation, and a Historical Preface, With Remarks 2 chron. Xxxiv. 14 - 31. 111w) when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the Lord, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the Lord given by llloses. And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord. And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan. And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and brought the king word back again, saying, All that was committed to thy servants, they do it. And they have ga thered together the money that was found in the house of the Lord, and have delivered it into the hand of the over seers, and to the hand of the workmen. Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king. And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he rent his clothes. And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a servant of the king's, saying, Go, inquire of the Lord for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found for great is the wrath of the Lord that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the lord, to do cyter all that is written in this book. And Hilkiah, end they that the king had appointed, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college and they spake to her to that feet. And she answered them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Tell ye the man that sent you to me, Thus saith the Lord, Be hold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inha bitants thereof; even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read More the king of Judah because A 2. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.