Note 139 — Report of Proceedings OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AT GLASGOW, 1638. (continued 4)

“The Bishops’ Doom. A Sermon preached before the General Assembly which sat at Glasgow anno 1638, on occasion of pronouncing the Sentence of the greater Excommunication against eight of the Bishops, and deposing or suspending the other six. By Mr Alexander Henderson, moderator of that and several subsequent Assemblies. With a Postscript on the present decay of church-discipline. Edinburgh: Printed by John Gray and Gavin Alston. Sold by them at their printing-house in Jackson’s close, and by W. Gray bookseller in the east corner of the Exchange. MDCCLXII.

“Advertisement.—It must be observed in justice to the venerable author of the following sermon, that by the journal of the general assembly 1638, he had only allowed him from the evening of the preceding day to study that sermon. His thoughts, amidst such a multiplicity of work as was then on his hand, behoved also to be much perplexed; and his sermon, though subjoined at the end of that journal, seems only to have been taken down in the time of delivery by an amanuensis. Yet, mank as such a fragment is, it seems worthy of being preserved; and the same will, it is hoped, prove useful not only for vindicating the practice of that assembly, but also for stirring up others to attempt a faithful discharge of the like duty, upon grounds equally relevant, as necessary not only for reclaiming the impenitent, but also as an indispensable testimony to the truth of our Lord’s dominion over the Church.”