APPENDIX (A).

THE pressure required to get the Lord's Supper dispensed was in some cases considerable, as the following extracts from the Records of Church Courts will show :

1668.—It is hereby recommended [by Synod of Galloway which met every six months] to the several ministers of this Diocesse, that can conveniently, to celebrate the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper betwixt the next Synod.

1669.—It is hereby recommended [by Synod of Galloway] to the several ministers of this Diocesse, that they use all diligence to celebrate the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper this ensuing Summer. [Some may think that even the pressure here is not great.]

1701.-The General Assembly recommends to Presbyteries to take care that the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper be more frequently administered within their bounds, &c.

1711.—The General Assembly, considering that in some places the Lord's Supper is administered only in the summer season,

do therefore recommend to Presbyteries to do what they can to get it so ordered that the Lord's Supper may be administered in their bounds through the several months of the year.

1712.-The General Assembly, considering that the Assemblies of this National Church, have by several acts, appointed the frequent celebration of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper.

do hereby enjoin all Presbyteries to enquire if the said Acts be duly observed by all the brethren; and in case any minister shall neglect to celebrate the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper in his parish for a whole year, the Assembly appoints the Presbytery in which the said parish lies to call for an account of the reasons of his omission, &c.

1724.-The General Assembly, considering that the Act of Assembly, of 1711, entitled "Recommendation concerning the Administration of the Lord's Supper," has not had its full effect, do hereby revive and renew the said Act, &c., &c.

1751.—The General Assembly renews the 11th Act of Assembly, 1712, appointing the more frequent celebration of our Lord's Supper; and in order to the better observance of the said Act, every Presbytery, at their privy censures, before the winter Synod, are hereby appointed to enquire at each of their brethren,

whether they have administered that sacrament, once at least, the preceding year, and in case any of them have not done it, their excuses shall be marked in the minutes, and what the Presbytery has done in approbation or disapprobation thereof, &c., &c.

APPENDIX (B).

In the "Book of Common Order," the address put down to be given before the administration of the Lord's Supper was largely to the same effect as the addresses often made in debarring. After stating in the first paragraph that we are to examine ourselves before we I presume to eat of that bread and drink of that cup," and warning us that the danger is great if we receive that holy Sacrament unworthily, inasmuch as we kindle God's wrath against us, it proceeds :

"And therefore, in the name and authoritie of the eternal God, and of his Sonne Jesus Christ, I excommunicate from this table all blasphemers of God, all idolaters, all murtherers, all adulterers, all that be in malice or envie; all disobedient persons to father or mother, princes or magistrates, pastors or preachers: all thieves and deceivers of their neighbours, and finally all such as live a life directly, fighting against the will of God: charging them, as they will answer in the presence of him who is the righteous Judge, that they presume not to profane this most holy table. And yet this I pronounce not, to seclude any penitent person, how grievous soever his sinnes before have been, so that he feel in his heart unfained repentance for the same; but only such as continue in sin without repentance," &c., &c.