Chap. II. The HISTORY of the PURirAnrs. 483_ I (hall take leave of this venerable body with this further remark, That KingJames l.. king fames's fending over divines to join this affembly, was an open ac- rbrg knowledgment cfthe validity of ordination by mere prethyters ; here be- ing a bifhop of the church ofEngland feting as a private member in a fynod of' divines, of which a mere prefbyter was the prefident. In the fummer of the year 1617, king .7ames made a progrcfs into -co.- Proceeding, land, to advance the epifcopal caute in that country; the chapel of Edin- inscodand. burgh was adorned after the manner of Whitehall; pictures being carried from hence together with the flatues of the twelve apoftles, which were fet up in the church. His majefty treated his Scots fubje is with a haughty diflance ; telling them both in the parliament and general afíèmbly, That it was a power innate, a princelyfpecial prerogative which chrßian kings have, to order and difaofe external things in the outwandpolity of the church, as we with our bops. Jhall think ft ; and Sous for your ap- proving or difapproving ; deceive not yourfelves, I will not have my reafon oppofed. Two acts relating to the church were paífed this feßìon ; Catderw. one concerning the choice ofarchbifhops and bithops, and another for the Ch. hilt. in reflitution of Chapters; but the miniftersprotefting again ft both, feveral of Pref. themwere fu(pended and deprived, and others banifhed, as the Melvin, Mr. Forbes, &c. andas the famous Mr. Calderwood, author of the 4/tare Damafcenum, had been before; which book when one of the Englifh prelates promifed to anfwer, the king replied, What will youanfwer, Man î? There is nothing here thanfcripture, rea/cn, andfathers. Next year a convention or. affembly was fummoned to meet at Perth, ''lluguf125, 1618. It confifted of fume noblemen, ílatefinen, baronsand burgeffes, chofen on purpofe to bear down the minifters; and with what violence things were carried, Cod and all indifferent fpeetators, (lays my- author) are witneffes. In this affembly, the court and bithops make a fhift to carry the following five articles. i. That the holy facrament (hall be received kneeling. livearticles 2. Routesto the lick, ifthey obliged to adrrtini(ler the Lacrament in private YféCor.- 3. That minifters may baptize children privately at home, in cafes offor ' P' 6n. neceßity, onlycertifying it to the congregation the gext Lord's day. q.. That rninifters (hall bring fuch children oftheir parifh as can fay. their. Catechifm, and repeat the Lord's prayer, creed, and' ten commandments, to the bithops to confirm and give them their blefling. 5. That the feftivals of.Chrflmas, Egger, Whitfuntide, and the .df.- cenlion of our Saviour, (hall for the future be commemorated in the kirk ofScotland. The king-ordered thefe articles to bepoblifhed at the market- crofres ofRatified in the feveral burroughs, and the minifters to read them in their pulpits ;,Pmr'iamene, Q q 2 which
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