g's Knox, ii. 113. [In the Confession, as printed in the Acts
of the Parliaments of 1560 and 1567 ratifying it, the word _chief_ is
retained (Acts of Parliament, ii. 532; iii. 20). The Confession of 1616
bears that: "We believe that there be only two sacraments appointed by
Christ under the New Testament, Baptisme and the Lord's Supper" ('Booke
of the Universall Kirk,' iii. 1137). Concerning the sacraments the First
Book of Discipline says: "They be two, to wit, Baptism and the Holy
Supper of the Lord Jesus" (Dunlop's Confessions, ii. 520; Laing's Knox,
ii. 186).]

[133] Hujus generis _duo praecipua_ in vetere ecclesia fuerunt
circumcisio et agnus paschalis. Nos illorum loco _duo_ etiam habemus
baptismum et caenam domini.

[134] "The Confession of Faith made by Mr Knox, and ratified in
Parliament by King James VI., together with the Westminster Confession
(both agreed on by the General Assembly of Presbyters), are owned next
to the Word of God, by both parties, as the Standard of the doctrine of
our Church" (Case of Suffering Church of Scotland).

[135] It is printed at length in Calderwood's History, vii. 233-242; and
also in the 'Booke of the Universall Kirk,' iii. 1132-1139; and is
supposed to have been mainly the work of Howie, Melville's successor at
St Andrews.

[136] [In speaking of this Confession of 1616, Dr Grub says that it
"agrees with the old one in all important points, the chief difference
being in its more marked enunciation of the doctrine of Calvin in regard
to election and predestination" (Grub's History, ii. 306).]

[137] Printed in Peterkin's Records of the Kirk, pp. 155-160.

[138] Generally so designated, but really as old as the days of Paul and
Augustine.

[139] [After 1564-65, the Book of Common Order was usually printed with
a complete metrical version of the Psalms (Laing's Knox, vi. 279, 280,
284); and was comprehended under the name 'Psalm Book' (_infra_, p.
128). Mr Cowan, of 47 Braid Avenue, Edinburgh, informs me that the
Confession, drawn up for the English congregation at Geneva, appears in
every edition of the Book of Common Order which he has examined, from
the Geneva edition of 1556 down to the edition printed by Evan Tyler in
1644.]

[140] Dunlop's Confessions, ii. 8; Laing's Knox, iv. 171, 172.

[141] [These forms of recantation may be seen in the Maitland
Miscellany, iii. 215-221; and in the Register of St Andrews
Kirk-session, Scot. Hist. Soc., i. 11-18.]

[142] Dunl