The Booke of the Universall Kirk of Scotland: Wherein the Headis and Conclusionis Devysit Be the Ministers and Commissionaris of the Particular Kirks Thereof, Are Specially Expressed and Contained.
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The Booke of the Universall Kirk of Scotland: Wherein the Headis and Conclusionis Devysit Be the Ministers and Commissionaris of the Particular Kirks Thereof, Are Specially Expressed and Contained.
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Quhat shall be done to them that will not forbear the company of
persones excommunicat, after dew admonitions? To be excommunicat
except they forbear.
The children of the excommunicat persones to be receavit be ane
faithfull member of the Kirk to baptisme.
Ane single woman committing adulterie with ane married man should be
equally punished.
Quhair a man repudiats his wife and bairnes without ane cause, and
no wayes will receave her againe, the minister should labour for
reconciliatione, and the pairtie offendit complaine to the judge
competent.
Ane promise of marriage made before the readers and elders in ane
reformit kirk, the parties contractit compeirs before the Minister
and Sessione, requires their bands to be proclaimit; quhilk beand
done, the Kirk finds carnall copulatione to have followit, be
confessione of baith parties: when the Kirk requires them to proceid
to the solemnizatione, the woman refuses.
Admonische the refuisand to solemnize the marriage, or else to gett
ane decreit from the judge competent, that they should not marrie,
under the paine of excommunicatione.
Persones, after promise of marriage and proclamation of the bands,
desyrand to be frie from the bands, no carnall copulatione following,
should be free, _si res est intergra_, and their inconstancie
punishit.
It is not lesum for ministers to leave their vocatione and use other
offices and chairges within the commone weill, without consent of the
Kirk; and in tymes cumeing, it is needfull that all them that serves
in the ministrie be publickly inaugurat.
[TWENTY-FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY.]
The Generall Assembly of the Kirk, halden at Edinburgh in the
Nether Councill House, the 5th day of July 1570, quhair
was assembleit the Nobilitie, Barrones, Superintendants,
Commissioners of Kirks, Provinces, Townes, and Ministers: the
prayer made be Mr John Craige.
The haill brethren presently conveint, chuse Mr Robert Pont Moderator
for this Assembly.
Penitents that, for their offences, resorts to the Generall
Assemblie, either to receive injunctions for to schaw signes of their
repentance, or that sould present themselfes before the same in
linnen cloathes and receave farther injunctions, that they be warnit
to compeir the second day of the Assembly peremptorlie.
Ministers, at their publick inauguration, shall protest solemnlie
that they sall never leive their vocatione any tyme thereafter under
the paine of infamie and perjurie.
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