o his ordination, and, since then, in large and
influential congregations; and, to crown the whole, heartfelt devotion
to the Church of his fathers, and unswerving personal loyalty to its
King and Head.

With adoring thanks to the great Teacher of us all, who rewards
professors in their declining years with the affectionate regard of
their whilom best students, now become wise and strong men in the
Church's service, I cordially commend to all who may read these words,
this outcome of Dr. Johnston's Christian erudition and conscientious
literary labor.

(signature of John Campbell)

PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE,

MONTREAL, March, 1901.

TO ONE WHO LOVED

THE HOUSE OF GOD ON EARTH,

AND WORSHIPS NOW

IN THE CITY WHEREIN IS NO TEMPLE--

MY MOTHER.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

THE LAW AND THE LIBERTY OF PRESBYTERIAN WORSHIP

CHAPTER II.

THE AGE OF KNOX: THE FORMATIVE PERIOD OF PRESBYTERIAN WORSHIP

CHAPTER III.

KNOX'S BOOK OF COMMON ORDER.

CHAPTER IV.

A DIET OF PUBLIC WORSHIP IN THE TIME OF KNOX

CHAPTER V.

THE PERIOD OF CONTROVERSY

CHAPTER VI.

THE WESTMINSTER ASSEMBLY AND THE DIRECTORY OF WORSHIP

CHAPTER VII.

LEGISLATION CONCERNING PUBLIC WORSHIP IN THE PERIOD SUBSEQUENT TO
THE REVOLUTION

CHAPTER VIII.

PRESBYTERIAN WORSHIP OUTSIDE OF THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH OF SCOTLAND

CHAPTER IX.

MODERN MOVEMENTS IN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES RESPECTING PUBLIC WORSHIP

CHAPTER X.

CONCLUSION

"Inward truth of heart alone, is what the Lord requires. Exercises
superadded are to be approved, so far as they are subservient to Truth,
useful incitements, or marks of profession to attest our faith to men.
Nor do we reject things tending to the preservation of Order and
Discipline. But when consciences are put under fetters, and bound by
religious obligations, in matters in which God willed them to be free,
then must we boldly protest in order that the worship of God be not
vitiated by human fictions."--CALVIN.

PREFATORY NOTE.

The purpose in the following pages is a simple one. It is to discover
the trend of thought in connection with Public Worship within the
Presbyterian Church, particularly in Scotland, during the course of her
history since the Reformation. The spirit of the Church in her
stirring and formative periods, especially if that spirit is a constant
one, is pregnant with instruction. Such a constant spirit is readily
discovered by a stu