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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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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.

Name: 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.
Author: Church of Scotland. General Assembly

Church of Scotland. General Assembly

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1. For that by their seditious and rayling Sermons and Pamphlets, they
haue wounded the KING’S Honour and Soveraygne Authoritie, and animated
his Liedges to Rebellion; averring that all Authoritie Soveraygne,
is Originallie in the Collective bodie, derived from thence, to the
Prince; and that not onlie in case of negligence, it is Suppletive in
the Collectiue bodie, as beeing communicate from the Commontie to the
King; Cumulative, not Privative; but also in case of maladministration,
to returne to the Collectiue bodie; so that _Rex excisit jure suo_, and
that they may refuse Obedience.

2. Next; they are knowne to bee such as haue eyther beene
Schismaticallie refractarie and opposite to good Order setled in
the CHVRCH and STATE; or such as having promised, subscribed, and
sworne Obedience to their Ordinarie, haue never made conscience of
their Oath; or such as haue sworne, and accordinglie practised; yet
contrarie to their Promise and Practise, haue resiled, to the contempt
of Authoritie, and disturbance of the CHVRCH; or such as are vnder the
Censures of the Church of Ireland, for their disobedience to Order; or
vnder the Censures of this CHVRCH; or conveaned, at least deserving to
bee conveaned before the Ordinaries, or a lawfull Generall Assemblie,
for diverse Transgressions, deserving deprivation: As, first, For
vttering in their Sermons rash and irreverend speaches in Pulpit,
agaynst his Majesties Councell, and their Procedinges, punishable by
Deprivation: by the Act of Assemblie at Edinburgh, May 22. anno 1590.
Next; For reproving his Majesties Lawes, Statutes, and Ordinances,
contrarie to the Act of Assemblie at Pearth, May 1. Anno 1596.
Thirdlie; For expressing of mens names in Pulpit, or descrybing them
viuelie to their reproach, where there was no notorious fault; agaynst
another Act of the same Assemblie. Fourthlie; For vsing Applications
in their Sermons, not tending to the edification of their present
Auditorie; contrarie to another Act of the same Assemblie. Fiftlie;
For keeping Conventions, not allowed by his Majestie, without his
knowledge, and consent; contrarie to another Act of the same Assemblie.
Sixtlie; For receaving of people, of other Ministers Flockes, to the
Communion; contrarie to Order, Actes of Assemblies, and Counsels.
Seaventhlie; For intruding themselues into other mens Pulpits,
without Calling or Authoritie. Eyghtlie; For vsurping the Authoritie
to convent their Brethren, and proceede agaynst them to the Censures
of Suspension, and Deprivation. Nynthlie; For pressing the people to
subscrybe a Covenant, not allowed by Authoritie; and opposing and
withstanding the subscrybing of a COVENANT offered by his Majestie, and
allowed by the Counsell: Beside manie personall faultes and enormities,
whereof manie of them are guiltie, which in Charitie, we forbeare to
expresse. But heereby it doeth appeare, how vnfit these persons are, to
bee Members of a Free and Lawfull Assemblie.

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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

History

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

Church of Scotland -- History -- Sources

1. For that by their seditious and rayling Sermons and Pamphlets, they
haue wounded the KING’S Honour and Soveraygne Authoritie, and animated
his Liedges to Rebellion; averring that all Authoritie Soveraygne,
is Originallie in the Collective bodie, derived from thence, to the
Prince; and that not onlie in case of negligence, it is Suppletive in
the Collectiue bodie, as beeing communicate from the Commontie to the
King; Cumulative, not Privative; but also in case of maladministration,
to returne to the Collectiue bodie; so that _Rex excisit jure suo_, and
that they may refuse Obedience.

2. Next; they are knowne to bee such as haue eyther beene
Schismaticallie refractarie and opposite to good Order setled in
the CHVRCH and STATE; or such as having promised, subscribed, and
sworne Obedience to their Ordinarie, haue never made conscience of
their Oath; or such as haue sworne, and accordinglie practised; yet
contrarie to their Promise and Practise, haue resiled, to the contempt
of Authoritie, and disturbance of the CHVRCH; or such as are vnder the
Censures of the Church of Ireland, for their disobedience to Order; or
vnder the Censures of this CHVRCH; or conveaned, at least deserving to
bee conveaned before the Ordinaries, or a lawfull Generall Assemblie,
for diverse Transgressions, deserving deprivation: As, first, For
vttering in their Sermons rash and irreverend speaches in Pulpit,
agaynst his Majesties Councell, and their Procedinges, punishable by
Deprivation: by the Act of Assemblie at Edinburgh, May 22. anno 1590.
Next; For reproving his Majesties Lawes, Statutes, and Ordinances,
contrarie to the Act of Assemblie at Pearth, May 1. Anno 1596.
Thirdlie; For expressing of mens names in Pulpit, or descrybing them
viuelie to their reproach, where there was no notorious fault; agaynst
another Act of the same Assemblie. Fourthlie; For vsing Applications
in their Sermons, not tending to the edification of their present
Auditorie; contrarie to another Act of the same Assemblie. Fiftlie;
For keeping Conventions, not allowed by his Majestie, without his
knowledge, and consent; contrarie to another Act of the same Assemblie.
Sixtlie; For receaving of people, of other Ministers Flockes, to the
Communion; contrarie to Order, Actes of Assemblies, and Counsels.
Seaventhlie; For intruding themselues into other mens Pulpits,
without Calling or Authoritie. Eyghtlie; For vsurping the Authoritie
to convent their Brethren, and proceede agaynst them to the Censures
of Suspension, and Deprivation. Nynthlie; For pressing the people to
subscrybe a Covenant, not allowed by Authoritie; and opposing and
withstanding the subscrybing of a COVENANT offered by his Majestie, and
allowed by the Counsell: Beside manie personall faultes and enormities,
whereof manie of them are guiltie, which in Charitie, we forbeare to
expresse. But heereby it doeth appeare, how vnfit these persons are, to
bee Members of a Free and Lawfull Assemblie.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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.

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.

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