To witt: In calling the ordinance of the presbytrie a rabble, saying, it sould not pass but an answer--it sould be worse then the faire of Glasgow--and that, four dayes before the famous lybell was published: 2. In giving command with threatenings to publische the letter in face of the Kirk: 3. In penning and forming the said blasphemous letter: 4. In denying first, with attestation, the penning thereof, and thereafter granting the same: 5. In opponing him in all heads of the said letter to the ordinance of the Presbytrie: 6. In wryting thir outrageous words therein--pretendit Presbytrie, usurpitance of the said Presbytrie, without any ground of God’s word, or lawes of the realme--that the said Presbytrie did, against their awne consciences, and Christiane charitie--that some of them were promise-breakers, (howbeit the contrare were verifiet in accusatione of the letter of the Presbytrie), of calumnious objections:--and in contemning not only the jurisdictione of the Presbytrie, but also the Synodall Assemblie: And therefore hes decernit and ordaynit, in ane voyce, that the said Mr David, upon Thursday cum aucht dayes, immediatly after returning from this Assemblie, shall appear in presence of the Presbytrie of St Androis, and with humiliation of heart, and earnest and trew repentance, confessit and acknowledgit before them, that in the particulars abovewritten, and euery ane of them, he hes heavily offendit his God, sclanderit the said Presbytrie, and the haill Kirk of God within this realme;--craving God’s goodness to pardon him, and the said Presbytrie to forgive him, with promise in tyme cuming, to avoyde all such sclanderous behaviour or dealing; quhais humiliation and repentance being fund unfeigned and earnest, be the sicht of the said Presbytrie, and they satisfied therewith, that upon Sonday immediatly thereafter, he appear before the pulpit, in the paroche kirk of St Androis, before noone, after the sermone, and immediately before the prayer, in presence of the congregatione, and there make the said confessione, and acknowledge his offences in particular, and in manner as is above deducit--exhorting all the brethren and the congregatione to the obedience of the Kirk and ordinances thereof, that as they have been sclanderit be his fall, so be his rysing they may receive comfort and good example: Qwherein, if the said Mr David failzies and gives not absolute obedience, according to the tennor of this sentence, in all poynts, that the said Presbytrie of St Androis proceed against him with the sentence of the Kirk.