18. Difference between deprivation, deposition, and de- 19. Prayer before deposition or reposition; and the form of acts of deposition and suspension: No de- posed or suspended minister is to intromit with 20. For what probationers are to be censured 21. When the Assembly only can repone, and what ju- dicature can repone: He cannot be restored to his former parish, nor yet to that of another deposed for the same fault: Ministers deposed for horrid 11. The effect of an appeal, and how it sîsts execution: 428 12. The manner of making appeals, and to whom made 13. When an appeal is to be judged deserted 14. How parties are sisted by bills and references 15. When the bene or male-appellatum is to be discussed: 431 Note by the Editor of this Compendium, concerning the CHRONOLOGICAL VIEW OF THE ACTS OF PARLIAMENT, BY WHICH The Church of Scotland WAS ESTABLISHED AND IS MAINTAINED. On the 24th day of August 1560, Popery was abolished, and the Protestant religion virtually established in Scotland, by Acts of the Estates of Parliament. This result of the persecutions with which the professors of the reformed doctrines had been visited, and of the conflicts of reason and true religion with power and bigotry, was effected, in consequence of a petition presented to Parliament by a number of Protestants. They craved, that the doctrine maintained in the Popish church should be discarded as antichristian-that purity of worship, as exemplified in the discipline of the primitive church, should be restored-and that the ecclesiastical revenues, which a corrupt hierarchy had enjoyed, should be applied to the maintenance of a useful clergy, to the promotion of learning, and to the relief of the poor. They impugned the clerical character of the Popish priesthood, and contended that the power which they exercised, and the vassalage under which they served to the court of Rome, rendered them unfit to be entrusted with power, or tolerated as ministers of religion. These Protestant petitioners, therefore, called on Parliament to use the power which Providence had put into their hands for effecting this great work of reformation; B and they were required by the States to prepare a summary of the doctrines which they held to be conformable to Scripture. This the reformed ministers did in the space of four days. Besides the doctrines of Christianity common to all its churches, this confession condemned as idolatrous and superstitious several particulars in the Romish system. It was submitted to the Lords of the Articles, and afterwards deliberately considered in full Parliament-the reformed ministers being in attendance to defend or explain it; and after an adjournment, that it might be duly and deliberately scrutinized, Parliament resumed the consideration, and approved of it on 17th August 1560. It met with no opposition except from three temporal Lords (Atholl, Somerville, and Borthwick,) whose only reason was that they would "believe as their forefathers had believed," while " the Bischopis spak nathing." On the 24th of the same month, accordingly, the following acts of Parliament were passed: The thre Estaitis then being present vnderstanding that the jurisdictioune ande autoritie of the Bischope of Rome, callit the Paip, vsit within this realme in times bipast, hes bene verray hurtfull and preiudiciall to our Soueranis autoritie ande commone weill of this realme: Thairfoir hes statute ande ordanit that the Bischope of Rome haif na jurisdictioun nor autoritie within this realme in tymes cuming. And that nane of oure saidis Soueranis subiects of this realme sute or desire in ony tyme heireftir title or rycht be the said. Bischope of Rome, or his sait to ony thing within this realme, vnder the panis of Barratrye that is to say, proscriptioune, banischement, and neuir to bruke honour, office nor dignitie within this realme. And the controvenaris heirof to be callit befoir the Justice or his Deputis, or before the Lordis of Sessioun, and pvnist thairfoir, conforme to the lawis of this realme. And the furnissaris of thame with fynance of money and purchessaris of thair title of rycht, or manteanaris or defendaris of thame, sall incur the same panis. Ande that na Bischop nor vther Prelat of this realme vse ony jurisdictioun in tymes to cum be the |