. 613. In this and the
preceding pages I have made use of materials contributed by me to a
Report anent Innovations in Public Worship, presented to the General
Assembly in 1864. [Elsewhere, Calderwood says: "None are tyed to the
prayers of that book; but the prayers are set down as samplers"
(Calderwood's History, 1678 ed., p. 25). Principal Baillie's evidence is
to the same effect: "The Warner is here also mistaken in his beliefe
that ever the Church of Scotland had any liturgy; they had and have
still some formes for helpe and direction but no tie ever in any of them
by law or practise" (Review of Bramhall's Faire Warning against the
Scots Discipline, 1649, p. 57).]

[174] Row's History, Wodrow Society, pp. 403, 404.

[175] Order and Government of the Church of Scotland, 1641: Address to
the reader.

[176] Certainly not more consistently than Pollanus in the following
rubric: "Hae sunt precationum in liturgiis certae formulae, _quae tamen
sequitur minister_ SUO ARBITRIO ut tempus fert et res postulat. Neque
enim ulla praescriptione formularum alligandus est Spiritus Dei ad eum
verborum numerum, cui non liceat subjicere vel supponere si meliora
suggerat.... Hae formulae _serviunt tantum rudioribus. Nullius libertati
praescribitur_, tantum ne ab ea ratione discedatur quam nobis Jesus
Christus praescripsit.... Cumque is (_scilicet_ Spiritus Sanctus) apud
tribunalia subministret quae dicenda sint, non deerit nobis [si] cum
vera fide coram Deo nos sistemus sensu orationis excitati."

[177] "Von vorgeschriebenen Kirchengebeten vor und nach der Predigt
finden wir keine Spur, vielmehr das sichere Gegentheil.... Ums Jahr 1589
finden wir zuerst das sogenannte Lob und Dankopfer und die daran
gehaengten Fuerbitten fuer die Obrigkeit, und die uebrigen christlichen
Staende.... Erst nach der Mitte des siebzehnten Jahrhunderts ... suchte
man auch im Liturgischen die Willkuer der einzelnen in engere Schraenken
zuruckzufuehren" (Geschichte der ersten Basler-konfession, S. 249-251).

[178] [The charges are in the alleged causes which led James VI.,
immediately after his accession to the English throne, to endeavour to
bring about uniformity in the services of the church throughout the
whole kingdom, and run thus: "That diversitie, nay deformitie, which was
used in Scotland, where no set or publike forme of prayer was used, but
preachers or leaders and ignorant schoolmasters prayed in the church,
sometimes so ignorantly as it was a