 The relationship between these powers was fully established in Scotland by the first and second Books of Discipline, and finally ratified by the "Westminster Confession of Faith".But toward the close of the last century, the principles of the French revolution, so active in other countries, had also found their entrance into Scotland; and there they menaced not only the civil but also the ecclesiastical authority of the state.This was especially the case in that body called the Secession, to a part of which Mr. M'Crie belonged.