Forsuameikle as the necessitie of tyme requyres that the greatest and weightiest heads be first considerit; It was proponit to the haill brethren to consider and decerne if they thocht meit or not, the Kirk sould make sute for the Articles following: 1. That the acts of Parliament made in the year of God 1584 against the discipline of the Kirk, libertie and authoritie thereof, be annullit, and the samen discipline qwherin the Kirk hes been in practise, ratified. 2. The abolutione of the act of annexatione and restitutione of the patrimonie of the Kirk. 3. That abbots, pryors, and wthers prelates, pretending the title of the Kirk, and voting for the same, without their power and commissione, be not sufferit in tyme comeing, to vote for the same, either in Parliament or wther conventione. _Last_, That the countrie, qwhilk is polluted with fearfull idolatrie and blood, be purgit: Qwhilks haill articles, the Assemblie thocht most necessare to be cravit: and for putting of the same in good forme, imployit their breither, Mrs Robert Pont, David Lyndsay, Thomas Buchanane, and James Melvill; willing them to present the same, at ten houres, to the full Assembly to be considerit be them. As concernyng the voting in Parliament, in the name of the Kirk, if it shall be thought leisum, the ministrie sould succeed in that part in the prelats’ place; it is referrit to consultatione qwhill the morne. And every brother is ordaynit to wey and debait that argument with himselfe, and be readie the morne to reasone their opinion into the same. Sessio 5^a. May 24. It is ordaynit in tyme comeing, that the breither receiving commissiones from the Kirk, and slewthfullie observing the execution thereof, shall be rebukit in the face of the Assemblie for their negligence. Sessio 6^a. May 25.