The History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland

Here we find a commandment, to take, ⟨p. 283⟩to eat, to take and to drink; but to offer Christs Body either for remembrance or application, we find not: And therefore we say, To take upon you an Office which is not given unto you, is unjust usurpation, and no lawful power. The said Master Alexander being more then astonished, would have shifted; but then the Lords willed him to answer directly, whereto he answered, That he was better seen in Philosophy, then in Theology.¹ Then was commanded M. John Leslie (who then was Parson of Une, and now Abbot of Londors, and after was made Bishop of Rosse) to answer to the former Argument; and he with great gravity began to answer, If our Master have nothing to say to it, I have nothing; for I know nothing but the Cannon Law: And the greatest reason that ever I could find there, is, Nolumus and Volumus, and yet we understand that now ^*he is the only Patron of the Mass. But it is no marvel, for we understand that he is a Priests get and Bastard, and therefore we should not wonder, albeit that the old truan Verse be true, Patrem sequitur sua proles. The Nobility hearing that neither the one nor the other would answer directly, said, We have been miserably deceived heretofore; for if the Mass may not obtain remission of sins to the quick and to the dead, Wherefore were all the Abbeys so richly doted and endowed with our Temporal lands.

Here we finde a commandment, to take, ⟨p. 283⟩to eat, to take and to drinke; but to offer Christs Body either for remembrance or application, we finde not: And therefore we say, To take upon you an Office which is not given unto you, is unjust usurpation, and no lawfull power. The said Master Alexander being more then astonished, would have shifted; but then the Lords willed him to answer directly, whereto he answered, That he was better seen in Philosophie, then in Theologie.¹ Then was commanded M. Iohn Leslie (who then was Parson of Une, and now Abbot of Londors, and after was made Bishop of Rosse) to answer to the former Argument; and he with great gravity began to answer, If our Master have nothing to say to it, I have nothing; for I know nothing but the Cannon Law: And the greatest reason that ever I could finde there, is, Nolumus and Volumus, and yet we understand that now