se be sett down for the peaceable exercise
thereof." He also reported that "the saids bishops had appointed and
given order that, in the whole churches of this citie [_i.e._,
Edinburgh], sermon sall be made at the accustomed times, by regular and
obedient ministers, and that a prayer sall be made before and after
sermon, and that neither the old service nor the new established service
be used in this interim." The Council remitted to the bishops "to doe
therein according to the power incumbent unto thame in the dewtie of
thair office" (Peterkin's Records of the Kirk, p. 52).]

[162] [In Knox's version--"the crossing of thair fingaris" (Laing's
Knox, ii. 255).]

[163] Dunlop's Confessions, ii. 603.

[164] Dunlop's Confessions, ii. 526, 530, 532, 536, 603; Laing's Knox,
ii. 191, 194, 196, 199, 255.

[165] Dunlop's Confessions, ii. 417; Laing's Knox, iv. 179; vi. 294.

[166] Dunlop's Confessions, ii. 421; Laing's Knox, iv. 182; vi. 297.

[167] Dunlop's Confessions, ii. 425; Laing's Knox, iv. 185; vi. 298.

[168] Dunlop's Confessions, ii. 426. There is a similar rubric in the
Liturgy of Pollanus: "Minister, nomine Domini invocato, ut Spiritu
Sancto adjutus, possit digna Deo atque salutaria ecclesiae eloqui
recitat textum."

[169] The Liturgy of Pollanus appoints sermons to be preached on the
mornings of Tuesday and Thursday. The service is to begin with a psalm,
which being sung, the minister having invoked the Holy Spirit recites
his text and proceeds with his sermon. He concludes with some shorter
prayer "prout animus tulerit."

[170] Dunlop's Confessions, ii. 583; Laing's Knox, ii. 238.

[171] Dunlop's Confessions, ii. 450; Laing's Knox, iv. 194.

[172] In the Order of the General Fast it is stated: "The exhortation
and prayers of everie several exercise we have remitted to be gathered
by the discrete ministers, for time preased us so that we culd not frame
them in such order as wes convenient, nether yit thought we it so
expedient to pen prayers unto men, as to teach them with what hart and
affection and for what causes we shuld pray, in this great calamitie"
(Dunlop's Confessions, ii. 695; Laing's Knox, vi. 421). See also
Dunlop's Confessions, ii. 698; Laing's Knox, vi. 470. Even the Order of
Excommunication might be "enlarged or contracted as the wisedome of the
discreit minister shall thinke expedient" (Dunlop's Confessions, ii.
746; Laing's Knox, vi. 470).

[173] Calderwood's Altare Damascenum, 1623, p