of varying from the forms in Knox's Book and exercising
their own gifts. The charges made against the character of their
prayers, in what is called the King's Declaration, but what was in
reality the declaration of some of his prelates, is only intelligible on
this supposition.[178] And the Assembly, as I read their deliverance,
rather deny that the prayers of the readers were of the particular
character charged than affirm they were the identical prayers contained
in Knox's Book.[179]

FOOTNOTES:

[146] Dunlop's Confessions, ii. 520, 583; Laing's Knox, ii. 186, 239.
[In another passage it is spoken of as "the Booke of the Common Order,
called the Order of Geneva" (Dunlop's Confessions, ii. 548; Laing's
Knox, ii. 210).] The Book of Common Order, which has been frequently
reprinted, is included in vols. iv. and vi. of Dr Laing's edition of
Knox's Works.

[147] The extract from the minutes of the city council embodying these
conditions, which I found in Withof's 'Vertheidigung' and communicated
to Dr Hume Brown, was printed by him in the Appendix to his 'John Knox,'
and is also reprinted here in Appendix D.

[148] "At lenght it was agreed that the Order of Geneua (whiche then was
alreadie printed in Englishe and some copies there amonge them) shulde
take place as an Order moste godly and fardeste off from superstition.
But Maister Knox beinge spoken unto, aswell to put that Order in
practise, as to minister the communion, refused to do ether the one or
the other, affirminge, that for manie considerations he coulde not
consente that the same Order shulde be practised, till the lerned men
off Strausbrough, Zurik, Emden, &c., were made privy" (Brief Discourse
of the Troubles begun at Frankfort in the year 1554, Petheram's reprint,
p. xxvii). We have the following additional entry: "After longe
debatinge to and fro, it was concluded that Maister Knox, Maister
Whittingham, Maister Gilby, Maister Fox and Maister T. Cole shulde drawe
forthe some Order meete for their state and time: whiche thinge was by
them accomplished and offred to the congregation (beinge the same Order
off Geneua whiche is nowe in print). This Order was verie well liked off
many, but suche as were bent to the Booke of Englande coulde not abide
it" (Ibid., pp. xxxvi, xxxvii).

[149] [It is greatly to be regretted that Dr Mitchell does not seem to
have been able to prepare the Appendix to which he here refers; but
after this lecture had left his hands h