Chap. VI. The HISTORY of the Pt; RITANS. 609 C H A P. VI. From the beginning of the commotions in Scotland, to the long parliament in the year 1640. WE are now entering upon a fcene of calamity which opened in the K. Charlesl. V north, and in a few years, like a rifing tempeft, overfpread both 5637. kingdoms, and involved them in all the miferiesof a civil war. Ifarch- t"-".\"-J bifhop Laud could have been content with being metropolitanof the church ofEngland alone, he might have gone to his grave in peace; but grafp. ing at the jurifdit-tion of another church founded upon different princi- ples, he pulled down both upon his head and was buried in the ruins. We have mentioned the píepofterous publifhing the foots book of ca- nons ayear before their liturgy, which was not finifhed till the month of Odober 1636. His majefty's reafons for compiling it were, that " his Rufhw. royal father had intended it, and made a confiderable progrefs in the P. 386. " work, in order to curb fuch of his fubjc is in Scotland as were enclin- ".ed to puritanifrn ; that his prefent majefty refolved to purfue the fame defign, and therefore confented to the publication of this book (which " was in fubitance the fame with the englifh liturgy) that the roman party " might not upbraid us with any material differences, and yet it was fo " far diftint, that it might be truly reputed abook of that church's corn- " poling, and eftablifhed by his royal authority as king of Scotland." The compilers of this liturgy were chiefly Dr. Wederburne, a ¡cots di- Scots liturgy, vine, beneficed in England, but now bifhopof Dunblain ; and Dr. Max- wel bifhopof R. Their inftruaions fromEngland were, to keep fuch catholick faints in their calendaras were in the englifh, and that fuch new faints as were added fhould be the molt approved, but in no cafe to omit St. George and St. Patrick ; that in the book of orders, thofe words in the englifb book be not changed, Receive ye the Holy GhoJI ; and that fun- dry leffons out of the apocrypha be infected ; befides thefe, the word presbyter was inferted inftead of prie/1; and the water in the font for bap- tiftn was to be confetrated. There was a benediflion or thankfgiving for departed faints; fome paffages in the communion were altered in favour of the real prefence ; the rubricks contained inftruëtions to the people, when to ¡land and when to fit or kneel; to all which the(cots had hitherto been ftrangers. The main parts of the liturgy were the fame with the englifh, that there might be an appearance of uniformity, it was reviled, VOL. 1. 4. I correéted, 4
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