_not Printed_. _Index of the Acts of the General Assembly not Printed 1646_. _Index of the Acts of the General Assembly holden at_ Edinburgh, 1647, _not printed_. _INDEX of the Unprinted ACTS of the General Assembly held at_ Edinburgh. 1648. _INDEX of the Unprinted ACTS of the Assembly._ 1649. Footnotes TO THE READER. [Transcriber’s Note: This 17th-century book was printed in the typographical conventions and spelling of that time; for instance, the printed book used the long _f_-shaped glyph for the letter _s_, it included old spellings such as _Kingdome_, _civill_, and _publick_, and old words such as _hes_, _samine_, and _welas_, and numbers generally are ended with a period. In this transcription, archaic printing is replaced with modern characters, so the letter _s_ appears as _s_, with the effect that what in the original book would look like _Minifters_ is here transcribed _Ministers_, but archaic spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and usage are transcribed as they appeared in the printed book.] It were long, neither do we now intend, to represent, what in the beginning, by the Mercies of our _God_ and Ministry of his faithful Servants, was the reformation of this Kirk: what purity of Doctrine and Worship, what Order, what Authority, and what Unity continued for many years, by the Prayers and Labours of Ministers and Professors, what Novations and Corruptions have been introduced upon us of late, in the time of our Division and Detection, by such as have ever been enemies to the Cross of _Christ_, and who have minded earthly things: How manifold and how comfortable experience we have at this time of the care and compassions of our _Lord_ and _Saviour_ preventing the utter ruine of Religion, and the horrible vastation of this Kirk, by looking upon the afflictions of his people, by hearing their groans, mocked by the World: And by moving the Heart of our gracious and dread Soveraign the Kings Majesty to conveen a free national Assembly for redressing the wrongs done to Religion, and what undeniable testimonies, and notable manifestations of the divine presence and assistance of _Christ_, have accompanied this meeting and whole work. _Who so is wise and observeth these things will see the loving kindness of the Lord_. For the present it seemed necessary that such of the Acts and Constitutions of the Assembly as are of most general concernment should be published in print; the correct writing of so many Copies as were called for, not being possible to be exped in due time, and the Kirk having resolved upon this course in former times, which, had it been keeped, our defection through the almost invincible ignorance of the proceedings of the Kirk, had not proven so dangerous and deplorable.