SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~}) has been preserved in a
fragment of Sophocles, Erasmi Adagiorum Chil. Quat. p. 41. Coloniae
1612. Scholiastes Graeci In Sophoc. Tom. iii. p. 602. Argentorati
1788.--_Ed._]

377 ["Another consequence of this defeat [at Dunbar] was, that every one
blamed the other, the one side for purging out too many who might
have been of service against the enemy, and these again blamed their
opposites for being too remiss, and not well enough purged."--Memoirs
of the Life of the Rev. Robert Blair, p. 113. Edin. 1755.--_Ed._]

378 [Answer of the Commission, _ut supra_, p. 8.--_Ed._]

379 [P. 178 Edin. 1649.--_Ed._]

380 [Or as a general principle.--_Ed._]

381 [In opposition to what is here affirmed it is stated in the pamphlet
entitled, "A True Representation of the Present Division in the
Church of Scotland," (p. 15.) that the Scottish Reformers did not
look upon their conjunction with the Duke of Chatelherault and his
followers, "as a cause of that sad stroak, as some would make the
world believe, from Mr. Knoxes Sermon at Sterlin. For in the heads
of that Sermon, printed in the History of the Church of Scotland, p.
217 _Edit. Edinburgh_, 1644, in 4to, there is no mention of any such
thing but only of their carnal confidence, that possibly they had
not sincerely repented of their former opposition, and that they who
were late come in were made to feel in their own hearts, how bitter
a cup they had made others to drink before them. Nor doth he (as our
Brethren's tenets now lead them) presse them to purge out such as
were lately admitted, but doth only presse repentance upon all of
them."--Dr. M'Crie presents his readers with an analysis of this
sermon of the "great Apostle of the Scots," as he was called by
Beza.--See "Life of Knox," pp. 192, 193, sixth edit.--_Ed._]

382 [See page 495 of this edition.--_Ed._]

383 ["The safety of the people" is "the highest law."--_Ed._]

384 ["The very heathens had a notion of the unlawfulnesse of
confederacies with wicked men. For as Victorinus Strigelius on 2
Chron. 25, noteth out of AEschylus his tragedy, intituled _Seven to
Thebe_, Amphiaraus a wise vertuous man was therefore swallowed up in
the earth, with seven men, and seven horses, beca