TO THE GREAT COUNSALL OF SCOTLAND NOW ADMITTED TO [THE]
REGIMENT, BY THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD, AND BY THE COMMOUN
CONSENT OF THE ESTAITTIS THAIROF, YOUR HONOURIS HUMBLE
SERVITOURIS AND MINISTERIS OF CHRIST JESUS WITHIN THE SAME,
WISHE GRACE, MERCY, AND PEACE FROM GOD THE FATHER OF OURE
LORD JESUS CHRIST, WITH THE PERPETUALL ENCREASE OF THE HOLYE
SPIRITE.
[368] There is no separate title either in the MS. 1566, or in
Vautrollier's edition, which contains the earlier portion of the BOOK
OF DISCIPLINE. (See note 1, page 197.) The edition 1621, quoted in the
foot-notes, was published anonymously by David Calderwood the
historian, and was evidently printed in Holland. A copy of the
title-page is herewith annexed. It was reprinted in the "Collection of
Confessions of Faith," &c., with a separate title-page, dated 1721,
but the volume ii. (pp. 515-608,) containing it, was not completed
until 1722. The Editor says, "This edition is according to that which
was printed in 1621," correcting typographical errors, and supplying
"from other copies some words which probably have been omitted by the
printer." It is to be regretted that he should not have specified what
"other copies" he made use of. But one of these, no doubt, was
Spotiswood's, referred to in note 2, page 181.
THE FIRST AND
SECOND BOOKE OF
DISCIPLINE
_Together with some_
ACTS OF THE GENERALL
ASSEMBLIES,