[ [61] Commons Journals, 13th February 1607.
[ [62] A speech used by Sir Francis Bacon, Knight, in the Honourable House of Commons, Quinto Jacobi, concerning the Article of the General Naturalization of the Scottish Nation.
[ [63] Act for the utter abolition of all memory of hostility, and the dependents thereof, between England and Scotland, 4 Jac. i. cap. i.
[ [64] “Thair be amang us not a few of the best sorte who ar als aliene from it as ony of the lower House, and hes moir just causis to be discontented with so easie obliterating of begane wrongis.” (The Privy Council to the King, 3rd March 1607, Register, vii. 513.)
[ [65] Register of Privy Council, vii. 498.
[ [66] Act anent the Unioun of Scotland and England. Act. Parl. Scot. iv. 366.
[ [67] Calvin v. Smith, the case of the Post-nati, or of the Union of the Realm of Scotland with England; Trin. 6 James I. A.D. 1608, State Trials, ii. 559; The argument of Sir Francis Bacon, in the case of the Post-nati of Scotland, in the Exchequer Chamber, before the Lord Chancellor, and all the Judges of England, Nov. 1608.
[ [68] Thus the eleventh article of this Confession, which treats of the Ascension, contains these remarkable words: “The remembrance of quhilk day, and of the Judgement to be executed in the same, is not onelie to us ane brydle whereby our carnal lustes are refrained, bot alswa sik inestimable comfort, that nether may the threatning of wordly Princes, nether zit the feare of temporal death and present danger, move us to renounce and forsake that blessed societie, quhilk we the members have with our head and onelie Mediator Christ Jesus, whom we confesse and avow to be the Messias promised, the onelie head of his Kirk, our just Laugiver, our onelie hie Priest, Advocate and Mediator. In quhilk honoures and offices, gif Man or Angel presume to intrude themself, we utterlie detest and abhorre them, as blasphemous to our Soveraine and supreme Governour Christ Jesus.” The twenty-fifth article is entitled, “Of the Civil Magistrate”; and these two articles, when read together, contain the germ of the Scottish idea of an Established Church. This Confession was ratified by the Estates in 1567, Act. Parl. Scot.
[ [69] “This power ecclesiasticall flowis immediatlie frome God, and the Mediator Chryst Jesus, and is spirituall, not having ane temporall heid on eirth, bot onlie Chryst, the onlie spirituall King and Gouernour of his Kirk;” “It is ane title falslie usurpit be Antichrist, to call himself heid of the Kirk, and aucht not to be attributit to angell or to mane, of what estait soeuir he be, saiffing to Chryst, the Heid and onelie Monarche in this Kirk;” “As the ministeris and vtheris of the ecclesiasticall estait, ar subiect to the magistrat ciuillie, swa aucht the persone of the magistrat be subiect to the Kirk spirituallie, and in ecclesiasticall gouernment. And the exercise of bayth thais jurisdictionis can not stande in ane persone ordinarlie” (Headis and Conclusionis of the Policie of the Kirk, cap. i.). This statement of principles, usually called the “Second Book of Discipline,” was promulgated by the Church of Scotland in 1578.
[ [70] Act. Parl. Scot. VI. ii. 771.