if we continew, our maist disperat calamiteis sall hie turn to gladnes, and to a prosperous end.[485] To thee, O Lord, allone be prais; for with experience I wryt this, and speak.” MS. Letters, p. 65, 66. The edition was printed most probably in England, (_Rome_ is on the title‑page,) during the persecution, from a MS. sent by Knox from Dieppe, and so incorrectly, that it is often impossible to make sense of it. The following are specimens: “Diffysed,” fol. 2, “difficil,” MS.――“A pure word of God,” fol. 2, “a puritie allowit of God,” MS.――“Consent,” fol. 3, “conceat,” MS.――“May any other Jesas Christ, except I, in these wordes, make intercession for sinners?” fol. 11. “May any other (Jesus Christ except) in these wordes mak intercession for sinneris?” MS.; the transcriber having mistaken the concluding mark of parenthesis for the pronoun.――“Carkese slepe,” fol. 16, “carleslie slepeth,” MS. In quoting {390} Isa. lxiv. 5, the printed edition has employed a word which I have not seen in any old version of the Bible. “Thou art _crabbid_, O Lord, because we have sinned,” fol. 4; and again in verse 9, “Be not _crabbid_, O Lord, remember not our iniquities for ever.” In the MS. it is _angrie_, in both instances. In fol. xvi. is a greater variation: “For with such as do aleage that God may not chaunge his sentence, and our prayers therefore to be vayne, can I no wyse agree.” Instead of this the MS. has, “whilk thing if we do unfeanedlie, he will revoke his wrath, and in the middis of his furie think upon mercie.”――There are similar variations between the MS. and the printed copies of most of his other tracts. They show that the MS. which I possess has not been transcribed from these copies, according to a custom very common in that age. Note O, Footnote 106.