he taught were in accordance with the doctrines of their own and
other reformed churches, and whether there were any expressions used
by him which gave countenance to the views of the enemies of the
truth. This committee was composed of some of the most able men in
the church, including several professors from the four universities
The list contains, along with others, the names of Alexander
Henderson, John Sharpe, the author of _Cursus Theologicus_, Robert
Douglas, George Gillespie, Robert Blair, Samuel Rutherford, James
Wood, William Strahan, David Dickson, Robert Baillie, John Neave,
Edward Calderwood and Robert Leighton, afterwards Archbishop of
Glasgow. On the 27th of August, 1647, the committee gave in a Report
to the General Assembly, to the effect that Dr. Strang had employed
some expressions in his dictates which were calculated to give
offence, but that on conferring with him, they were satisfied in
regard to his orthodoxy, and that to put an end to all doubts as to
his meaning, the Doctor had gratified them by proposing of his own
accord the addition of certain words to what was previously somewhat
ambiguous (Vita Autoris, Strangu De Interpret. Script.).

So far as can be collected from the imperfect account we have of the
circumstances of the case, Dr. Strang discovered, it was imagined, a
bias to Arminianism, whereas he seems to have been merely more of a
sublapsarian than a supralapsarian. The "peculiar notions" he
entertained were vented, we have been told, upon that profound
subject _De concursi et influxu deimo cum actionibus creaturarum_ or
the concurrence and influence of God in the actions of his
creatures. In the two chapters of his published work which treat
expressly upon this point, we can perceive nothing that is at
variance with our own Confession. But this does not warrant us to
infer that the dictates, as originally delivered and before they
were amended and enlarged by the author himself, may not have
contained some very objectionable language at least, especially when
we look to the Report of the committee of the Assembly regarding
them. Indeed, all that Baillie himself says, who was one of that
committee, is, that Dr. Strang was pursued "without any ground at
all _considerable_," and that "h