The Assembly having considered an Act of the Assembly 1644. _Sess. Ult._ enjoyning a publike Fast to be keeped in all the Kirks of the City where the General Assembly holds upon the first day of the meeting of the Assembly; And finding some inconveniencies therein, Therefore at this time until the matter be further considered, Appoints a publike Fast and Humiliation for the Lords blessing to the meeting of the next Assembly, to be universally observed in all the congregations of this Kirk upon the Sabbath next except one preceeding the said next Assembly; The exercises for the members of the Assembly at their first meeting, being still observed according to the ancient and laudable practise of this Kirk, This appointment not withstanding. _The Assembly appoints the meeting of the next General Assembly to be at Edinburgh upon the first Wednesday of August 1647._ THE GENERALL ASSEMBLY, AT _EDINBURGH_ 4. AUGUST. 1647. August. 16. 1647 Postmeridiem. Sess. 2. _Act allowing the half of the Ministers in the Presbyterie of_ Zetland _only, with their Ruling Elders, to keep the Provincial Assembly._ The General Assembly, Understanding that the whole Members of the Presbyterie of _Zetland_, joyned to the Provincial of _Caithnes_ and _Sutherland_ upon weighty considerations by the preceeding Assembly, cannot be by present at the meetings of that Provincial, without great prejudice to the particular Congregations within that Presbyterie, and many other inconveniences; That Isle being of great distance from Land, and the passage from and to the same being uncertain and dangerous: Doe therefore Declare and Ordaine, That the whole Ministers and Elders of the Presbyterie of _Zetland_ shall not be tyed hereafter to come to meetings of their said Provincial; But that the half of the number of the Ministers with their Ruling Elders, shall be onely oblieged to keep the meetings of the said Provincial Assembly in time coming. _20. August 1647. Antemeridiem._ Sess. 15. _A Declaration, and Brotherly Exhortation of the General Assembly of the Church of_ Scotland, _to their Brethren of_ England.