The Second Helvetic Confession has a chapter/article format. Does anyone know of any other Reformation confessions that have this format? I'm especially looking for those written before 1561. I know of those (like the Tetrapolitan) which have chapters instead of articles, but I'm looking for something like the Second Helvetic with chapters and articles.

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Wes Bredenhof
Co-pastor, Langley Canadian Reformed Church
Langley, British Columbia
www.bredenhof.ca

This is an interesting question. I perused Arthur Cochrane's Reformed Confessions of the Sixteenth Century and Peter Hall's Harmony of Protestant Confessions and did not find an example of what you are seeking, but I have not done a thorough search. You might want to be on the lookout for James T. Dennison, Jr.'s forthcoming publications on the Reformed confessions of that era for research purposes:

The Reformed Confessions of the 16th and 17th Centuries in English Translation

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Andrew Myers
Husband of Jessica, Father of Jackson, Katie and Samuel
Member, Presbyterian Reformed Church of Northern Virginia
Warrenton, VA USA
Editor, The Matthew Poole Project

"Let your Morning Thoughts, and your last Evening Thoughts, be what shall become of you to all Eternity." -- Matthew Poole

I looked at Cochrane and Hall too, as well as Schaff. Tomorrow I'll make my way over to the nearest university library at look at Pelikan's Creeds and Confessions of Faith in the Christian Tradition. Pelikan is quite comprehensive, but I think the new book by Dennison may be more so, at least on the Reformed side of things.

Anyway, thanks for looking.

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Wes Bredenhof
Co-pastor, Langley Canadian Reformed Church
Langley, British Columbia
www.bredenhof.ca