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
The breither of the West having admittit the Bischop of Glasgow to
the temporalitie, the Ecclesiasticall Jurisdictione being devolved be
him in the Kirk’s hand, and having receivit his obligatione thair,
in caice the Generall Assembly sould not allow of such admissione,
the same sould be undone; The haill matter being weyghit be the full
number of the breither, they universallie concludit the said forme
of admissione to be unlawfull, and ordaynit the brethren admitters,
to urge him performe the heids of the said obligatione, anent the
undoing and annulling of the said admissione.
Sessio 9.
No ministers of colledges or schooles shall receave in their
colledges or schooles, any student or schollar, being of maturitie
of age, quho refuses to subscryve the trew Religione presently
establisched and professt, be the mercy of God, within this realme,
or refuseing to participat the sacraments, under the paine of the
censures of the Kirk; and farther, before any student be promovit to
any degree in the universitie, that they shall, _toties quoties_,
as they shall be promovit, subscryve _de novo_, utherwayes their
promotiones to be stayit, under the paine forsaid; and that the
presbytries be diligent to sie the executione of this act, as they
will answer to God.
The Kirk within this realme hes advysit and found good, that the
Presbitries, together with the Commissioners in all the pairts of
the countrie, and every ane of them for their awne pairts, prescryve
to every young man that is minister within such ane Presbytrie, ane
pairt of Scripture, together with ane pairt of the commone places and
contravertit heads of Religione, to be diligently read, considerit,
and learnit be him, within such ane space of tyme as the Presbytrie
thinks good to appoynt him; and that his diligence may the better
appear unto the fruit thereof, at certaine tymes of the year, euery
Presbytrie being convenit, take ane count of the young man of his
trauells, be requyring of him in the pairt of scripture prescryvit to
him--first, the soume and deductione thereof in maner: 2. The solid
sence and meaning of these places qwhilk are most difficult to be
understood: 3. A collatione of the sentences qwhilk by reading he may
be able to gather out of that part of scripture; the qwhilk arguments
may either serve to confirme the truth, or else to refute hereticall
opiniones. As for the pairt of commone places and heads of religion
prescryvit unto him, let him be ready to answer to questionyng and
reasoning to the head thereupone, and so to be exercit in this
kynde, not for a tyme only, but from tyme to tyme, qwhill he come to
certaine maturitie and solidness in the scripture of God.
Sessio 11.
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