H/7oïy ofthe Puritans, examin'd. 215 &ca Be Galleries what they will for ufe, I corn- 6 manded not the taking them down at St. Andrews. At Edinburgh, the King's Command took down the Stone-Walls and Galleries, which were there removed, and not mine. For his Majefty hav-. 6 ing in a Chriflian, and a Princely way, erected and endowed a Bifhoprick in Edinburgh ; he refol- ' ved to make the Great Church of St. Giles in that City a Cathedral: and to this end gave or- 6 der to have the Galleries in the leifer Church, and 6 the Stone-Wall which divided them taken down. For of old, they are both one Church, and made 6 two by a Wall, built up at the Weft End of the 6 Chancel ; fo that that which was called the leffer 6 Church was but the Chancel of St. Giles, with Galleries round about it ; and was for all the 6 world like a fquare Theatre, without any Thew 6 of a Church : Now Pnce his Majefty took down 6 thefe Galleries and the Stone-Walls to make St. Giles's Church a Cathedral there ; certainly my 6 Command took them not down, to make way 6 for Altars and Adoration towards the Eaft which I never commanded in that, or any other Church 6 in Scotland.' Neal, ibid. 2'he fecond Branch of their Charge was his obtruding upon them a Book of Conflitutions ecclefiaftcal, deviledfor eflablsfhing a tyrannical Power in the Perfons of their Prelates, over the Confciences, Liberties and Goods of their People, &c. * If they mean by obtruding upon their Church, c that the Canons were unduly thruít upon them, becaufe that Book was confirm'd by the King's Authority ; then it is a bold Phrase to call it ob- truding. For if his Majefty that now is, did by his fole Authority command the prefent Book of Canons to the Church of Scotland, he did but ex- Troublcsand Trial, P.97. P 4 ercii;
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