[363] Baillie, ii. 88, 97.
[364] Baxter's Life and Times, p. i. 48.—He adds that this public explication was given by Mr. Coleman, when preaching on the Covenant to the House of Lords: "That by prelacy we mean not all Episcopacy, but only the form which is here described."
On the 12th of September, the Solemn League and Covenant was proposed to the Parliament, who, on the 21st, ordered it to be printed.
On the 20th, the Lords declared that none shall have command till they have taken the Covenant.
[365] II. Chron. xv. 12, 14, 15.—The 15th verse is printed with two other texts on the title page of the Solemn League and Covenant, published Sept. 22nd, 1643.
[366] Cunninghame's History of the Church of Scotland, i. 315, ii. 81.
[367] The Solemn League and Covenant will be inserted in the Appendix.
[368] Nye's Exhortation was published, and a portion of it, extolling the Covenant, may be seen in Hanbury's Memorials, ii. 215.
[369] Gouge was a Puritan divine who died in 1653, after being minister of Blackfriars nearly forty-six years.
[370] In the State Paper Office is the following letter written by Falkland in the spring of the year.