The History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland

yet, such was the mercy of God towards men in these most corrupt times, that the devil and his instruments went not so clearly on with their wicked business, but they had now and then, from time to time, remoras and lets in it, by those whom God raised up to bear witness to his Trueth; and in these days, sundry of the Scots Divines were very stout in the keeping of the ancient Tenets and Rites (which they had received from their first Apostles, Disciples to Saint John, according to the Church of the East; Witness the great struggling they had about the keeping of Pasche, or Easter-day; for till then, the Scots had kept the day of Pasche, upon the fourteen day of the Moon, whatsoever day of the week it fell out on; the Romanists called those that kept so this day, quartadecimani, and condemned them as Heretics, and they kept the day constantly upon the next Sunday following, and not upon a working day; at last the Scots were constrained to yield in this,¹ as in other Rites, unto Rome. Culman, and divers others Scottish men, did so stoutly oppose the Romanists in the point of Easter-day, and in other Tenets, that they chose, it being given to their choice, either to submit unto Rome, or to quit the settlings they had in the North of England, rather to lose their Benefices, then to yield. So standing fast to the Customs of the Scots Church, wherein they had been born and bred, they returned home to Scotland.

yet, such was the mercy of God towards men in these most corrupt times, that the devill and his instruments went not so cleerly on with their wicked businesse, but they had now and then, from time to time, remoraes and lets in it, by those whom God raised up to bear witnesse to his Trueth; and in these dayes, sundry of the Scots Divines were very stout in the keeping of the ancient Tenets and Rites (which they had received from their first Apostles, Disciples to Saint Iohn, according to the Church of the East; Witnesse the great strugling they had about the keeping of Pasche, or Easter-day; for till then, the Scots had kept the day of Pasche, upon the fourteen day of the Moon, whatsoever day of the week it fell out on; the Romanists called those that kept so this day, quartadecimani, and condemned them as Hereticks, and they kept the day constantly upon the next Sunday following, and not upon a working day; at last the Scots were constrained to yeeld in this,¹ as in other Rites, unto Rome. Culman, and divers others Scotish men, did so stoutely oppose the Romanists in the point of Easter-day, and in other Tenets, that they chose, it being given to their choice, either to submit unto Rome, or to quit the setlings they had in the North of England, rather to lose their Benefices, then to yeild. So standing fast to the Customes of the Scots Church, wherein they had been born and bred, they returned home to Scotland.