1. That publicklie preaching in the kirk of Striveling, he proponit a questione touching the circumcisione of women, and in the end concludit, that they war circumcisit in the foreskin of their forehead.
2. In Glasgow, he openlie taught that the discipline of the Kirk is a thing indifferent, and may stand this way or that way.
3. He accused the ministers that they used fallacious arguments and captious, and that they were curious braines.
4. So far as he could, he travellit to bring the originall languages, Greek and Hebrew, in contempt, abuseing thereto, the words of the Apostle, 1 Corinth. 14—and tauntinglie askit in what schoole were Peter and Paul graduit?
5. To prove the corrupt state of bischops in our tyme, he brocht furth the examples of Ambrose and Augustine.
6. It is sufficient to baptize in the name of the Father only, or in the name of the Sonne, or in the name of the Holy Ghost, because they are all one God, and to that effect alleadgit 19 of the Acts.
7. The matters of Discipline and lawfull calling in the Kirk, he callit trifles of policie.
8. He accused the ministrie of seditione and leise Majestie, saying, exhorting them not to be seditious, nor meddle with hie matters, to leave off, to put on crownes and off crownes, for if they medlit any farther therewith, they wald be reprovit.
9. He condemnit the application of the Scripture to the particular manners and corruptions of men, mockingly asking, in what Scripture they may finde a bischope for a 1000 pund, horse, corne, and pultrie, and when they teache of luife, how cold they fund Judas?