A Parallel or Brief Comparison of the Liturgy with the Mass-Book,
James Dodson
1641-Robert Baillie.-In this book, Baillie argues that the Scottish Service Book is essentially the Roman Mass translated into English, deliberately designed by the Canterbury faction to bridge Protestants back to Rome under the guise of reconciliation. By systematically dissecting the Liturgy according to the Mass’s traditional six-part structure, Baillie demonstrates that it adopts all the late Papal inventions of the Preparation—including the Pater Noster, the Confession, and the Kyrie eleison—the superstitious ceremonies and suppressed preaching of the Instruction, and the corrupt oblations, prayers for the dead, and sacrificial offertories that the English Reformation had explicitly removed. He concludes that the Scottish Book does not merely resemble the Mass, but contains its very substance, form, and accidents—either actually or virtually—thereby erasing the primary liturgical wall of separation between Protestantism and Popery and exposing the Scottish clergy’s complicity in re-imposing Roman idolatry.
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