FOOTNOTES:

[102] Laing's Knox, ii. 128.

[103] Ibid., ii. 183, 257.

[104] [For this band, see Laing's Knox, ii. 61-64.]

[105] ["Quhilk thay willinglie acceptit and within foure dayis presentit
this Confessioun as it followis, without alteratioun of any ane
sentence." (Laing's Knox, ii. 92).]

[106] [These statements are based on the information which Randolph sent
to Cecil on 7th September 1560 (Laing's Knox, vi. 120, 121).]

[107] "At vero in praefectorum obedientia unum semper excipiendum ne ab
ejus obedientia nos deducat, cujus decretis regum omnium jussa cedere
par est.... Adversus ipsum si quid imperent nullo sit nec loco nec
numero, sed illa potius sententia locum habeat, obediendum Deo magis
quam hominibus."

[108] This seems to be the opinion of Dr Laing (Knox's Works, vi. 121,
n.) Indeed one can hardly read chapter xviii. without having a suspicion
induced that Knox may have proved too strong for them in regard to some
of what they termed the more harsh expressions in the treatise, as well
as in regard to the particular chapter in question.

[109] [The Scotch and Latin versions are printed in parallel columns in
Dunlop's 'Collection of Confessions' ii. 13-98.]

[110] "Libros, qui ab infantia usque ecclesiae semper habiti sunt
canonici" (Latin version, Dunlop, ii. 70).

[111] Dunlop's Confessions, ii. 17, 18; Laing's Knox, ii. 96. A similar
protestation is made in the Preface to the First Book of Discipline
(Dunlop's Confessions, ii. 518; Laing's Knox, ii. 184).

[112] The sources from which this chapter was taken can still be pretty
clearly traced. I place in parallel columns its statements and those of
the two Confessions from which it was probably taken:--

"We confesse and acknawledge "Je confesse qu'il y a un seul
ane only God, to whom only we Dieu auquel il nous faut tenir,
must cleave, whom onelie we must pour le servir, adorer, et y avoir
serve, whom onelie we must worship, notre fiance et refuge."--Confession
and in whom onelie we must subscribed by students
put our trust. in Academy in Geneva.

"Who is eternall, infinit, "I beleve and confesse my
unmeasurable, incomprehensible, Lorde God eternal, infinite,
omnipotent, invisible: ane in unmeasurable, incomprehensible,
substance, and zit distinct in and invisible, one in substance,
thre personnis, the Father, the and three in pe