[208] The form of absolution then appointed to be used was, with consent of Henderson, modified by the Westminster divines into the shape in which it appears in their Directory for Church Government and Excommunication, and as modified was afterwards inserted in our Form of Process of 1707.
[209] La France protestant, deuxième édition, iii. 530.
[210] Book of Common Order, in Dunlop's Confessions, ii. 412; Laing's Knox, iv. 179.
[211] Dunlop's Confessions, ii. 587-589; Laing's Knox, ii. 242, 243.
[212] Dunlop's Confessions, ii. 590, 591; Laing's Knox, ii. 244, 245.
[213] Dunlop's Confessions, ii. 547; Laing's Knox, ii. 209.
[214] Dunlop's Confessions, ii. 548-550; Laing's Knox, ii. 209-211.
[215] Dunlop's Confessions, ii. 561; Laing's Knox, ii. 220, 221.
[216] [Dr Mitchell seems to have thought that handlings should be read haldings.]
[217] Dunlop's Confessions, ii. 562, 563. [The words which in this quotation are enclosed in parentheses are not in the copy of the Book of Discipline preserved by Knox (Laing's Knox, ii. 221, 222). Instead of the words, "if we permit cruelty to be used," that copy reads, "if you permit suche creualtie to be used"; and after the words, "comfort and relaxation," is the clause, "Concludit be the Lordis.">[