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prohibited, under certain penalties, the celebration of the Mass." He leaves his readers to discover, in the Acts of Parliament and in Knox, what the "certain penalties" were.

{175} The Act seems, as Knox says about the decrees of massacre in Deuteronomy, "rather to be written in a rage" than in a spirit of wisdom.

The majority of the human beings then in Scotland probably never had the dispute between the old and new faiths placed before them lucidly and impartially.