Excerpt from The Liturgy of the Church of Scotland, or John Knox's Book of Common Order: As Prescribed by the General Assembly, and Used in the Church of Scotland at and After the Reformation Effort we have referred to, was made in the 17th century by Laud and his party, to force on the Scottish National Church not the Book of Common Prayer, but a modification of the Roman Missal, the Protestants of that era with stood the imposition, not merely because they condemned that book, but because, first, they would not submit to a force exterior to their own ecclesiastical superiors; and secondly, because they would not use any form, to the entire exclusion of extemporaneous prayer. These were the two reasons that determined the course they adopted. Had more con ciliatory measures been pursued, there is no doubt that the Presbyterial Church-service would have been partly formal, and partly extemporaneous. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.