and clerk, also
by session and heritors, according to order. After the forsd
draught, at appointment of the presbytery and session, Mr. John
preached in the sd church, and, after sermon, did intimat to the
people their nomination of Mr. David to take charge in the ministrie
of that congregation, and ordained, that if any person had any thing
to object agt the said Mr. David being minr at the sd church, they
would come and signifie it to the session, now presently to meet at
the sd church for that effect, according to the practice in such
cases. The session having met, and none compearand to signifie their
dissent, or assent, they take their non compearance for their
signification of satisfaction, so, after three severall byesses at
the most patent door of the sd church, by the officer intimating the
forsd words, none at all appeared. So the sd Mr. David being desired
to come in to session, they presented to him their unanimous and
cordiall call of election to the ministrie of the kirk of Govan,
which he accepted." Records of Kirk-Session of Govan--_Ed_.]

122 [12mo., Glasgow, 1609.--_Ed._]

123 [Macward's words are, _a prima manu_. Het Leven en Sterven van Mr.
Hugo Binning.--_Ed._]

124 [A copy of "The Common Principles of Christian Religion" is now
before me which was Printed by R. S. Printer to the Town of Glasgow,
1666, and which bears to be "The 5 Impression".--_Ed._]

125 [All the works of Binning, which were published in the lifetime of
Koelman, were translated by him into the Dutch language. No fewer
than four editions of these have been printed at Amsterdam.--_Ed._]

126 [See page 457.--_Ed._]

127 [See page 465.--_Ed._]

128 [A contemporary of Binning, Mr. P. Simson, minister of Renfrew,
informed Wodrow, "That Dr. Strang was in hazard to have been staged
for his Dictates qch wer smoothed in his printed book, _De Voluntate
Dei_, and would have been removed from his place if he had not
demitted." (Life of Dr. Strang, Wodrow MSS. vol. xiii. p. 9, in Bib.
Coll. Glas.) Complaints regarding Dr. Strang having been presented
to the General Assembly, a committee was appointed, on the 18th of
June, 1646, to examine his written dictates, a copy of which was
produced by Dr. Strang, and to find out whether the doctrines which