224.
** Whitlocke, p.106.Rush.

vol.vii.p.

260, 261.
Under color of keeping the sacraments from profanation, the clergy of all Christian sects had assumed what they call the power of the keys, or the right of fulminating excommunication.

The example of Scotland was a sufficient lesson for the parliament to use precaution in guarding against so severe a tyranny.

They determined, by a general ordinance, all the cases in which excommunication could be used.