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, Clearing and confirming the same: And AN ACT OF PARLIAMENT. EXOD. 25. 9. _According to all that I shew thee, after the paterne of the Tabernacle, and the paterne of all the instruments thereof, even so shall yee make it._ Printed Anno 1621.