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
II. Every Presbyterie would conveen at their first meeting, all known
Papists in their bounds, and require them to put out of their company, all
friends and servants who are Popish within one moneth: Also within that
same space, to give their children, sons and daughters, who are above
seven yeers old, to be educate at their charges, by such of their
Protestant friends, as the Presbyterie shall approve, and finde sufficient
caution for bringing home within three moneths such of their children who
are without the Kingdom, to be educate in Schooles and Colledges at the
Presbyteries sight; to finde caution likewise of their abstinence from
Masse, and the company of all Jesuits and Priests.
III. That all, of whatsoever rank or degree, who refuse to give
satisfaction in every one of the foresaid Articles, shall be processed
without any delay; but those who give satisfaction shall be dealt with in
all meeknesse, after this manner: The Presbyteries shall appoint such of
their number as they shall find fittest to confer with them so frequently
as the Brethren are able to attend, until the midst of _October_ next,
against which time, if they be not willing to go to Church, they shall
give assurance to go and dwell in the next adjacent University Town,
whether _Edinburgh_, _Glasgow_, _St. Andrews_, or _Aberdene_, from
_November 1._ to the last of _March_, where they shall attend all the
diets of conference which the Professor and Ministers of the bounds shall
appoint to them: By which, if they be not converted, their obstinacy shall
be declared in the Provincial Synods of _April_, and from thence their
Processe shall go on to the very closure without any farther delay.
IV. That every Presbyterie, as they will be answerable to the next General
Assembly, be careful to do their dutie in all the premisses.
V. That there be given presently by the Members of this present Assembly
unto the Commissioners of the Presbyterie of _Edinburgh_, a List of all
excommunicate Papists they know, and of all Papists who have children
educate abroad, that they may be presented, together with our Supplication
to the Councel, at their first sitting.
VI. That the Councel may be supplicate for an Act, that in no Regiment
which goes out of the Kingdom, any Papists bear office, and that the
Colonel be required to finde caution for this effect, before he receive
the Councels warrant for levying any Souldiers: Also that he finde caution
for the maintaining of a Minister, and keeping of a Session in his
Regiment.
_Item_, The Assembly would enjoyn every Presbyterie to proceed against
Non-communicants, whether Papists or others, according to the Act of
Parliament made thereanent. And suchlike, that Acts of Parliament against
prophaners of the Sabbath be put to execution.
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