Records of the Kirk of Scotland: containing the Acts and Proceedings of the General Assemblies from 1638 downwards, as authenticated by the clerks of assembly.Church of Scotland. General Assembly
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Records of the Kirk of Scotland: containing the Acts and Proceedings of the General Assemblies from 1638 downwards, as authenticated by the clerks of assembly.
Church of Scotland. General Assembly
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I. Before you publish the Declaration which We have signed, you shall
require all the Council to sign it, and if you find that it may conduce
to Our Service, you shall make all the Council swear to give their
best assistance in the execution of the same: but this of putting them
to their Oaths, We leave to your discretion, to doe as you shall find
occasion; but if you shall find it fit to put them to their Oaths,
those that refuse must be dismissed the Council till Our further
Pleasure be known.
II. We give you Power to cause the Council to sir in whatsoever place
you shall find most convenient for Our Service, Edinburgh onely
excepted, and to change the Meeting thereof as often as occasion shall
require.
III. You may labour to prepare any of the refractory persons to
conceive aright of Our Declaration before it be published, so that it
be privately and underhand.
IV. You are to get an Act of Council to pass, to declare, that this
Declaration of Ours ought to free all honest Subjects from the fears
of Innovations of Religion or Laws: but this you are not to propose
publickly except you be sure to carry it.
V. If any Protestation be made against Our Declaration, the Protesters
must be reputed Rebels, and you are to labour to apprehend the chiefest
of them.
VI. If Petitions be presented to demand further satisfaction than that
We have already given by Our Declaration, you are to receive them,
and to give them a bold Negative, both in respect of the Matter and
the Form, as being presented from a Body which you are no ways to
acknowledge.
VII. If it should be objected against the High Commission, that it
ought not to be introduced but by Act of Parliament: your Answer must
be, that We found it left Vs by Our Father, and therefore We meane to
continue it, having first regulated it in such a way that it shall be
no just Grievance to Our Subjects, or against Our Laws: and when there
is a Parliament, We shall be content that it be ratified as We shall
now rectifie it.
VIII. If after the limited time in Our Declaration a Body remain
at Edinburgh, or elsewhere, you must raise what Force you can to
dissipate, and bring them under Our Obedience.
IX. As soon as the Peace of the Country will permit, you are to call
a General Assembly for settling of a constant and decent way for Gods
Worship; We having resolved to call them, or to permit them to be
as often as occasion shall require; We likewise intending to have a
Parliament, to ratifie what shall be condescended on at the Assembly.
X. You may say, the Bishops shall impose no other Oath upon Ministers
at their Admission, but what is warranted by Act of Parliament.
XI. You are to give direction that the same Service be used in Our
Chapel Royal, that was before the enjoyning of the Service-book.
XII. You must admit of no Petition against the 5 Articles of Perth, but
for the present you are not to press the exact execution of them.
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