sist, utherwayes
nocht fathfull subjects nor members of Chryst" (Melville's Diary, p.
370).

[263] Hill Burton's History of Scotland, v. 203.

[264] Dunlop's Confessions, ii. 763.

[265] Dunlop's Confessions, ii. 762.

[266] Rutherfurd's Divine Right of Church Government, 1646, pp. 596,
597. [1 John iii. 1 is a misprint in the original for 1 John iv. 1.]

[267] Aaron's Rod Blossoming, 1646, p. 177.

[268] Ibid., pp. 180, 181.

[269] [Dr Mitchell may have found such a claim elsewhere in Gillespie's
works; but it is not distinctly made in that chapter of 'Aaron's Rod
Blossoming' from which the quotations in this paragraph are taken,
although perhaps it may be held to be implied in the words: "By which it
appeareth that their [_i.e._, the Independents'] way will not suffer
them to be so far moulded into an uniformity, or bounded within certain
particular rules (I say not with others, but even among themselves) as
the Presbyterian way will admit of" (Aaron's Rod Blossoming, p. 181).]

[270] Aaron's Rod Blossoming, p, 182.

[271] Aaron's Rod Blossoming, p. 183.

[272] Peterkin's Booke of the Universall Kirk, 1839, p. 549 n. [The late
Bishop Russell, after examining the four MS. copies of Spottiswoode's
History, came to the conclusion that the one in the Advocates' Library
is only the first and incompleted draft of the work, and that the one in
Trinity College, Dublin, is the one which Spottiswoode himself prepared
for the press. Bishop Russell accordingly followed the Dublin MS. in his
edition of the History printed for the Spottiswoode Society, and that
edition (as well as the old folio edition) contains the notes of
agreement and disagreement. Peterkin has printed the Second Book of
Discipline, from an attested copy publicly read on the 29th of September
1591 "in the elderschip of Haddingtoun," and "subscryvit be the brethren
thairof." Of the ten subscribers, nine write _minister_ after their
names; the other simply signs, "Mr L. Hay, Bass."]

[273] Dunlop's Confessions, ii. 759, 760.

[274] Dunlop's Confessions, ii. 769.

[275] _Supra_, pp. 170-173.

[276] ["Some reproachfully and others ignorantly call them _lay elders_.
But the distinction of the clergie and laity is popish and
anti-christian; and they who have narrowly considered the records of
ancient times have noted this distinction as one of the grounds whence
the mystery of iniquity had the beginning of it. The name of _clergie_
appropriate to mi