Second Helvetic Confession: An Introduction.
In 1566, The Second Helvetic Confession was presented to Elector Frederick III by Heinrich Bullinger, the reformer of Zurich, Switzerland. Bullinger had succeeded Ulrich Zwingli upon his death and was a contemporary to Jean Calvin. Bullinger wrote the confession originally as private exercise, but when asked by Frederick III for a statement of the Reformed Faith, revised it with the help of Peter Martyr Vermigli and presented it to the Elector of the Palatinate.
A note on the text: the text is the common translation found on the internet with some errors corrected. While the paragraphs are kept as found in this translation, I included the paragraph numberings from Reformed Confessions Harmonized by Joel Beeke and Sinclair Ferguson. This is an excellent work with collects together the Westminster Standards, the Three Forms of Unity, and the Second Helvetic Confession and places them side by side within the loci of systematic theology.
In this site, the Second Helvetic Confession is broken into 52 readings, posted on Mondays.
