The Acts of the General Assemblies of the Church of ScotlandChurch of Scotland. General Assembly
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The Acts of the General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland
Church of Scotland. General Assembly
Ecclesiastical law -- Scotland; Scotland -- Church history -- 17th century
_Act against the Rebells in the North and South._
The Generall Assembly considering the just sentence pronounced against the
principall Actors in that Rebellion in the North and South, by ordinance
of the Commissioners of the late Assembly; And finding it most necessary,
that such as assisted or joyned with them in that impious and unnaturall
Fact, be likewise censured; Therefore ordains Presbyteries and Synods
_respectivè_, to proceed against them with the highest Censures of the
Kirk, if they give not satisfaction by publick repentance; And when the
sentence of Excommunication shall be pronounced, The Assembly discharges
the said Judicatories to relax any of them from the sentence, without the
advice of the Generall Assembly, or their Commissioners, _nisi in
extremis_: To whom also the saids Presbyteries and Synods, shall be
answerable for their diligence in the premisses as they shall be required.
And the Assembly doth humbly recommend to the Honourable Estates of
Parliament, to take such course as the Persons that shall be found guilty
may be exemplarly punished according to the merit and degree of their
offence.
_Act against secret disaffecters of the Covenant_
The Generall Assembly understanding that divers Persons dis-affected to
the Nationall Covenant of this Kirk, and to the Solemne League and
Covenant of the three Kingdoms, do escape their just censure, either by
their private and unconstant abode in any one Congregation, or by secret
conveyance of their malignant speeches and practises; Therefore ordains
all Ministers to take speciall notice when any such Person shall come
within their Paroches, and so soon as they shall know the same, that
without delay they cause warn them to appear before the Presbyteries
within which their Paroches lyes, or before the Commissioners of this
Assembly appointed for publick affairs, as they shall finde most
convenient, which warning the Assembly declares shall be a sufficient
citation unto them: And als that all Ministers and Elders declare to the
saids Judicatories _respectivè_, every such disaffected person, although
without their own Paroch, so soon as they shall hear and be informed of
them. And the Assembly ordains the said Commissioners not only to proceed
to Tryal and Censure of such disaffected Persons, but also take a special
account of the diligence of Ministers, Elders, and Presbyteries herein
_respectivè_.
_Act for sending Ministers to the Armie._
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