Contents of Catechisms of the Second Reformation include:

• Part 1: The Shorter Catechism and its Puritan Precursors
• Part 2: Samuel Rutherford's and other Scottish Catechisms of the same epoch

This book includes a historical introduction and biographical notices. It explains the composition and sources of the famous Catechisms of the Westminster Assembly (the Shorter and Larger Catechisms). Mitchell gives specimens of the Catechisms which were previously in use among the doctrinal Puritans in England and Scotland and those laid before the Westminster Assembly. Alexander F. Mitchell was Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of St. Andrews.

392 pages.