In the year 1651 the Church of Scotland, feeling in regard to her ministers -how deep their hand was in the transgression, and that ministers had no small accession to the drawing on of the judgments that were upon the land,- drew up what they called a humble acknowledgment of the sins of the ministry. This document is a striking and searching one. It is perhaps one of the fullest, most faithful and most impartial confessions of ministerial sin ever made.