The Book of Common Order, commonly called John Knox's Liturgy

DOCHVM AN
chluifdin anaifgidh. Cuid mhor eile dar
nainbfios agas dar naineolas an drongfa
adubhramar romhaind, dith teagaisg
fhirindigh oraind, agas leabhar maith
neoch da thuigfedis each go coitcheand
as ambriathruibh fein, agas as ad-
teangaidh ghnathaidh ghaoidheilge.
Achtchena do fhosguil Dia na nuile
chumhacht, agas Ri nandul & na nar-
chaingeal roid agas flighthe fuaithenta
& doirfi dhiiine anois, da chur agceill
diiinn go bfuil ceadaighthe againd an
fgriobhtuir diadha do leghadh agas
do thuigfin agas do chur agceill dona
poibleachaibh. Agas fos go bfuil foirm
agas bridh na nurrnaidheadh agas mo-
dhfreafdail na Sacramuinteadh & foir
ceadal an chreidimh Crifdaidhe arna
chur aneagar diiinn ona braithreach-
aibh crifdaidhe dobhi fa chathraidh
dara comhainm Geneua. Acht ata nicheana
dabfaicind duine e'igin do thaobh
ghaoidheal Alban no Eireand, do
ghebhadh do laimh anuireadfa do chu
idiughadh do dhenamh re heagluis De'
TO THE
anleabhar
listen to the truth when offered them for nothing. Besides a large
amount of the want of knowledge and the ignorance of those of whom
I have already spoken arise from a want of faithful teaching among
us, and of a good book which men could understand generally in
their own tongue and in their own native Gaelic language.
But God Almighty and King of all things and of archangels
has opened up an excellent path and way and doors for us now,
proclaiming to us that we are free to peruse the Holy Scriptures,
and to judge of them and declare them to the people. And
besides that, the forms and substance of the prayers and administration
of the scaraments, and the Confession of the Christian faith, are
put in order for us by the Christian brethren who are in the city
called Geneva. But there is this, if I saw any man of the Gael of
Alban and of Eireand, that should undertake, in aid of the Church