Note 364 — Chapter XII
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Baxter's Life and Times, p. i. 48.—He adds that this public explication was given by Mr. Coleman, when preaching on the Covenant to the House of Lords: "That by prelacy we mean not all Episcopacy, but only the form which is here described."
On the 12th of September, the Solemn League and Covenant was proposed to the Parliament, who, on the 21st, ordered it to be printed.
On the 20th, the Lords declared that none shall have command till they have taken the Covenant.