11.--_Ed._]

361 [See "The Nullity of the Pretended Assembly at Saint Andrews and
Dundee," &c., p. 312. Printed in the year 1652. As many had been
under age when the Solemn League and Covenant was first sworn the
Commission of the General Assembly ordained it to be renewed by
their Act, October 6, 1648, joining to it the "Solemn Acknowledgment
of Public sins and Breaches of the Covenant, and a Solemn Engagement
to all the Duties contained therein."--_Ed._]

362 ["We desire it may be remembered that in the beginning of these
troubles, anno 1638, when as there were then standing laws in this
kingdom, which are not yet repealed to this day, discharging all
subjects from rysing in armes, without the kings expresse warrant
and command, yet the subjects of this kingdome perceiving themselves
in danger to be destroyed by forraign invasion, did fynd these lawes
no wayes to bynd up their hands from taking armes, for their just
defence and selfe preservation,--these lawes, in the intention of the
lawgiver, being made for the preservation of the kingdom and not for
the destruction of it.--" Answer of the Commission, pp. 13,
14.--_Ed._]

363 [See "The Waters of Sihor, or the Lands Defectione," Wodrow MSS.
vol. xvii. pp. 39-41, in Bib. Ad. Peterkin's "Rec. of the Kirk of
Scotland," pp. 619-620.--_Ed._]

364 [See Note, page 96.--_Ed._]

365 [That is, "every where and at all times like himself and the
same."--_Ed._]

366 [We learn from Principal Baillie, ("Letters and Journals," vol. ii.
p. 363,) that Binning had identified himself with the Association of
the West, which was required to dissolve itself, by an Act of the
Scottish parliament, passed 28th Decem., 1650.--_Ed._]

367 [Or, general officers.--_Ed._]

368 [The _first_ or _principal proposition_ in the preceding
syllogism.--_Ed._]

369 [(Minor probatur,) that is, _the second proposition_ in the
preceding syllogism. It will be perceived that the arguments of the
author are constructed according to the rules of the Aristotelian
logic. A familiar acquaintance with this mode of reasoning
continued to be cultivated, at this time, by all who wished to excel
in public disputations (Professor Jardine's "Outlines of
Philosophical Education in the University of Glasgow," p. 12. Glas.