Sesostris was so much affected and humbled, by the delicate appeal
of the enslaved monarch, that he immediately commanded him, and the
other unhappy kings who were harnessed to his car, to be removed
from it.--Theophylact Hist. Maurit. lib. vi. chap. ii. Joan Tzetz.
Hist. Chibad. iii. 69.--_Ed._]

281 [See note page 98.--_Ed._]

282 [Hear, O heavens and give ear, O earth. ver. 2.--_Ed._]

283 [Regret, or accusation.--_Ed._]

284 [Agreeably to the course of discipline in former ages, (Hooker's
Eccl. Pol. vol. iii. p. 15,) they who had been convicted of any
gross crime were required by the First Book of Discipline, (chap.
ix.) and by subsequent enactments of the Church of Scotland, to
confess their sin in the hearing of the whole congregation. The same
thing was required of delinquents by the canons of the Church of
England. Dr. Grey, in his Impartial Examination of Neale's History
of the Puritans, (App. pp. 62-68,) has, from original documents
which were in his own possession, furnished us with various forms,
according to which, towards the end of the sixteenth century,
offenders were appointed to make their confession, in different
parts of England, in their respective parish-churches. The dues
which, in cases of scandal, were exacted by the ecclesiastical
courts of Scotland, were imposed and defined by acts of parliament.
Power to levy these was given to justices of the peace, who were
frequently members of the kirk session, or parochial consistory of
their district. In the year 1648, the General Assembly "recommended
to every congregation, to make use of the 9th act of the parliament
1645, at Perth, for having magistrates and justices in every
congregation." (Rec. of Kirk of Scot. p. 511, Edn. 1839.) It was in
this way, it would seem, or from elders acting both in a civil and
in an ecclesiastical capacity, that the practice of exacting fines
by kirk sessions arose and was continued. "You object that our
church sessions did exact fines. But if you consider, that these
fines, which you mention, are particularly imposed and determined by
statute, and thereby appointed to be applied to pious uses, and
therefore the demanding and uplifting thereof only, as well for the
more summary and effectual restraint of sin, as for the