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.
Church of Scotland -- History -- Sources
5. Jurisdictions to proceid be admonitiounes, to the process of
excommunication, if neid beis, against them that robbs the patrimonie
of the Kirk pertaining to the ministrie, or utherwayes intromitts
therewith unjustlie, whereby the ministrie is in danger to decay, be
occasion of the povertie of the ministers.
6. And because the conjunctione of marriages pertaynes to the
ministrie, the cause of adherents and divorcements aucht also to
pertaine to them, as naturallie annexit thereto.
* * * * *
Adulterers, incestuous, and homicids, war ordainit to repair towards
their own ministers, there to receave their injunctions, whill the
next Convention Synodall of the Superintendants or Commissioners
of their own provinces respective, and there to present themselve
in linnen cloathes, bareheaded and barefooted, humblie requestand
the Kirk there assemblit to receave them to the societie of the
faithfull, with farther injunctions, and to bring their testimonialls
from their ministers of their behaviour in the mean tyme.
Sessio 3^a.
Forsuameikle as it hes been ordainit be the Generall Assemblies, that
all adulterers, murtherers, incestuous persons, and uthers committers
of hainous crymes, first sould present themselves to the Generall
Assembly, there to resave their first injunctione, and at the next
thereafter following, to present themselves in linen cloathes, &c.;
And forsuameikle as diverse of the saids offenders partly are far
distant frae the places of Generall Assemblies, uthers for povertie
and deidlie feids may not nor dare not travell through the countrie
to present themselves before the saids Assemblies: for thir causes
and uthers considerationes moveing the Kirk presently assemblit, they
statute and ordaynit that all sic offenders sall be callit heirafter
be the Superintendants and Commissioners of provinces, to compeir
before them in their Synodall conventions, to be halden be them twyse
in the yeir, to receave and take their injunctions, conforme to the
order usit before the Generall Assemblies in all sorts.
The haill Kirk assemblit ordaynes, that all questions heirafter be
proponit and presentit to the Superintendants and Commissioners
forsaids in the saids Synodall Conventions, there to receave their
solutions; and gif any questione happins to be hard for them that
shall happen to be at the said conventione, then, and in that case,
the Superintendant or Commissioner of Kirks, present the said hard
questions to the Generall Assemblie, there to receave solutione
in their roome, according to the rule; with certification that no
questions hereafter shall be receavit in Generall Assemblies from
particular ministers.
Sessio 4^a.
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