Right Reverend Brethren in Christ,—Seeing my inability permits me not to be present at this General Assembly, I could o less nor write to you, my dear brother, of novelties to be brought into the church service, whereby we can gather nothing except a new schism renting the bowels of our kirk, and that before the preceding schism well quenched. In like manner, our holy fathers who begat us in Christ, and left to us, as it were, in hereditary investment, a pure form of worshipping God agreeable to his written word,–if we fall from it by accepting rites and ceremonies in the kirk not commanded by God, we do great injury to the honest frame and revererend memorial of our godly predecessors.

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From a copy of Mr Patrick Simson's Letter to Mr W Scot and Mr John Carmichael.

Right Reverend Brethren in Christ,—Seeing my inability permits me not to be present at this General Assembly, I could o less nor write to you, my dear brother, of novelties to be brought into the church service, whereby we can gather nothing except a new schism renting the bowels of our kirk, and that before the preceding schism well quenched. In like manner, our holy fathers who begat us in Christ, and left to us, as it were, in hereditary investment, a pure form of worshipping God agreeable to his written word,–if we fall from it by accepting rites and ceremonies in the kirk not commanded by God, we do great injury to the honest frame and revererend memorial of our godly predecessors.

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From a copy of Mr Patrick Simson's Letter to Mr W Scot and Mr John Carmichael.