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
Anent the planting of kirks, this is our advyce unto your Majestie,
that Commissioners be direct from your Majestie and this Generall
Assembly to the north and south parts of the countrie, to visite
and plant ministers where need requyres, suppressing of papistrie;
having commissione and power alwayes of your Majestie and the Kirk to
call before them, all that are suspect of perverting trew religione,
or revolting therefrae, and to doe all wther things necessar for
reformatione of those partes: And because the said wark cannot pass
fordward, unlesse there be provisione made alsewell for Commissioners
of the Kirk as ministers to be planted in necessare places, that
certaine be deput from the Counsell and certaine of the ministrie,
to conveen with all good expeditione, and sicht the rowmes of the
thrids, that it may be considerit qwhat may be spared to that effect;
and where the said thrids has been abused in tymes past, to sie how
the samyne may be reformit, and that the act made for dischargeing
of pensiones out of the thrids and superplus, and proclamatione past
thereon, may take full force. Lykewayes, giving power to the saids
Commissioners to reforme colledges and schooles; and where the rent
thereof is abused, to put convenient remedie thereto, and where it
may not serve, to sie how it may be helpit, and that sufficient men
be placeit in the rowmes of idle-bellies, and to depose them from
the office of the ministrie, and from their benefices, all such
as shall be found vnworthie or sclanderous in lyfe or doctrine,
alseweill bischopes as wthers: That it wald please your Majestie to
take some solide order that the lawes made for punischment of vyce,
and Commissions appoynted thereanent, may take some good effect: And
last, that order may be taken with the poore that wanders up and
doune the countrie without law or religione.
GRIEVES of the Kirk given in to his Majestie.
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