of that age.

[116] Dunlop's Confessions, ii. 32; Laing's Knox, ii. 100.

[117] Dunlop's Confessions, ii. 60, 61; Laing's Knox, ii. 108.

[118] The following are a few specimens of close verbal coincidence
between the Scottish Confession and the first edition of Calvin's
Institutes:--

1. "It behooved that the Filii Dei sumus quod naturalis
Sonne of God suld descend unto Dei Filius sibi corpus ex corpore
us, and tak himself a bodie of nostro, carnem ex carne nostra
our bodie, flesh of our flesh, and ossa ex ossibus nostris composuit
bone of our bones, and so become ut idem nobiscum esset.
the Mediator betwixt God
and man, giving power to so
many as beleeve in Him to be
the sonnes of God."--Dunlop,
ii. 33, 34.

2. "Quhatsaever wee have Ut quod in Adamo perdidimus
tynt in Adam is restored unto us Christus restitueret.
agayne."--Dunlop, ii. 34.

3. "It behooved farther the Praeterea sic nostra referebat,
Messias and Redemer to be very verum esse Deum et hominem
God and very man, because He qui Redemptor noster futurus
was to underlie the punischment esset.... Prodiit ergo verus
due for our transgressiouns, and homo, Dominus noster, Adae
to present himselfe in the presence personam induit ... ut Patri
of His Father's judgment se obedientem pro eo exhiberet
as in our persone to suffer for our ut carnem nostram in satisfactionem
transgression and inobedience, justo Dei judicio statueret
be death to overcome him that ac sisteret, ut in eadem carne
was author of death. Bot because peccati poenam persolveret.
the onely Godhead culd Quum denique mortem nec solus
not suffer death, neither zit culd Deus sentire, nec solus homo
the onlie manhead overcome the superare posset, humanitatem
samin, He joyned both togither cum divinitate sociavit ut alterius
in one persone that the imbecillitie imbecillitatem morti in poenam
of the ane suld suffer and persolveret, alterius virtute
be subject to death quhilk we adversus mortem in victoriam
had deserved: and the infinit luctaretur.
and invincible power of the
uther, to wit, of the God-head,
suld triumph and purchesse to us
life, libertie, and perpetuall
victory."--Dunlop, ii. 35, 36.

4. "That Hee being the Judicis scilicet sententia damnatus
cleane,