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18. Nor doth any advance to a higher class, till his pro-

fiting in the lower does appear

203

19. Such as remove to other Colleges must carry Testi-

monials with them-Who are to be employed by

Professors in theological exercises

20. Universities must instruct on the Sabbath-day

TITLE V. Of Schoolmasters and Instructors of Youth.

1. Qualifications of such as bear office in Schools by

Acts of Parliament and Assembly if 30

204

2. The Work of a Landward Schoolmaster

205

TITLE VI. Of Doctors and Professors of Theology.

1. The Sentiments of this Church about the Doctor's

Office: He is no Pastor as such

206

2. Catechists or Doctors should teach in Colleges and in

large Parishes

206

3. Synods are to report to the Assembly the Names of

Scholars fit to be Professors: No Pastor can be

compelled to give himself to Teaching and leave his

Pastoral Charge

206

4. The Doctor as such no Ruling Elder; nor as mere

Doctor, can be Member of Assemblies

5. Professors Dictates may be reviewed by General As-

semblies

207

8. Elders have particular bounds of the Parish (called ·

Quarters in Scotland) assigned them to visit month-

1. How the word Deacon is taken the Office describ-

ed: the Session censurable that wants them

2. Their Election, &c. the same with Elders

3. Duties of Deacons

210

211

TITLE IX. Of Moderators of Church Judicatories.

1. It is convenient the Moderator be a Minister: His

Work and Power

212

2. No Assessors to our Moderators

213

3. No constant Moderator, but in Kirk-sessions: the

manner of their Election

213

TITLE X. Of Clerks, Readers, and Precentors.

1. A Clerk, his election, admission, and continuance

213

2. How far Extracts are probative

214

3. A Clerk is not to be declined

214

4. The first rise of Readers: they are now ceased

2. Constituents of a Session, and time of their meeting

215

3. Matters treated by them

216

4. According to what rule

5. Secret Confessions not to be propalled, except in what

cases

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216

6. Privy Censure in Sessions, and how to be Managed 217

7. Session-books to be tried by the Presbytery yearly

8. Each Session is to have the Acts of Assembly read,

and to observe them roh open20 ban 217

9. The Kirk-session is sufficient alone for reformation of

manners in a parish, having the Magistrate's con-

dass 218

currence

JUTITLE XII Of Presbyteries. outs
1. The Constituents of a Presbytery, their quorum, and
time of meetings abong? quunilwortiz1 10 VK 41219

2. Presbyterial Exercises and common head in thrown8219

3. Absents to be censured
detudo add to 1832 220

4. Matters treated of in Presbyteriestad a loandms/220

5. Processes that begin, but cannot be determined by the

Session, but referred to the Presbytery as the judges
competentieinneh orons teil tuo lu grčka T220
6. When the Session may cite a person to the Presby-
videoza Intons) a lam
yam 360221

tery

7. Sessions cannot absolve from such Scandals without

the Presbytery A formeƆ ni roitatuc.org.

8. Correspondence of Presbyteries et dif

221

47221

9. Privy Censures in Presbyteries, their season upon

days of Prayer

221

TITLE XIII. Of Parochial Visitations by the Presbytery.

1. Visitations occasional or ordinary

222

2. How the day for the visitation is to be intimated

3. The Minister's Library, and Session Register to be

seen and revised

222

4. Preliminaries to the Visitation, and how the Elders

are to be interrogate

223

5. Ministers' Families to be interrogate concerning their

lives

223

6. Kirk-sessions intcrrogate concerning their Pastor

7. Pastor and Heads of Families interrogate concerning

the Kirk-session

223

226

8. The Precentor, Beadle, &c.

227

9. Pastor and Elders interrogate concerning the Congre

gation

227

10. Pastor, Kirk-session, and Heads of Families interro-

gate about things of common concern

TITLE XIV. Of Provincial Synods.

1. The Constituents of a Synod, their time of meeting,

2. Synod opened, Rolls made up, Moderator chosen,

and Correspondence enrolled in! 97

228

229

3. Committees of Synods, their Work, Use, and Power 229

4. Matters treated by Synods veri

230

5. Presbyteries are to carry home and read Synod Acts 230

6. Privy Censures by Synods

230

7. Centesima to Ministers Widows and Children

230

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TITLE XV. Of Extraordinary Synods and General Assemblies.

1. Extraordinary Synods only to be held in a disturbed

state of the Church

2. Members of a National Assembly by the Directory

should be as many Ministers at least as Ruling El

edersuj sit eg vrotudeux¶ ori az barrotes 220i ju

3. The nature of our first General Assembly after the

Reformation former & sto Yor

231

232

4. What may annul a General Assembly

5. Assemblies may meet yearly and oftener, pro re nata 232

6. The representation in General Assemblies, and the
number of Members ais, dam¶ bitar

7. There should be no delegations but from Presbyteries

only

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234

8. All Commissioners must reside, or have relation to the

bounds they representeiV Tablou ¶ 10 JUIZ van 234

9. The Scots Kirk at Campvere represented their in- /
structions, &ced of a metatulyv ndi noi vub sải x

10. Commissioners to and from Assemblies their ex

1234

11. The style of Commissions to General Assemblies

12. The reason for this uniformity ango❤otra „d

13. When Commissions are to be given ins

14. Commissioners are to be elected forty days before they

meet, and why: snurranmoo❤IROTDH-2000 4

15. The Sovereign, or his Commissioner, honours the As-

236

sembly by his presence, which, though acceptable,
yet is not essential to an Assembly.dote se i 1237

16. The first Commission was the King's missive to 237

17. The form now is more solemn

18. Presbytery of Darien represented

19. The opening of the Assembly

+239

20. The order observed among the Members, and in the

Assembly House 191

21. Committees of Assemblies, their number, and way of
being chosen

22. Committee of overtures and others, their power how

23. No ecclesiastical process to be printed without allow. [

240

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241

26. Commissions of General Assemblies their power

27. The method of choosing Members of the Commission,

their charges to be paid, and churches supplied

242

28. Absents from the Commission, how censured tia 243

29. Delegates from Presbyteries to attend Parliaments ;*..

R

244

no lawful church court without elders ? i') 243

30. Members of Assembly should have tickets for access 244

31. Absents from Assemblies, how censured

32. The style of Acts of Assembly, and Petitions thereto :

they must not run in the Magistrate's name

33. The authorities of Assemblies, and their acts: the

pain of disobeying and declining the same

34. Advocate or Procurator, Solicitor or Agent for the

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35. The adjourning and dissolving of Assemblies and

other Church judicatories

246

36. Committee for revising the minutes, and printing acts 247

37. The ordinary way of dissolving Assemblies

247

38. How two Assemblies were dissolved in an extraordi-

nary manner, and their behaviour in these cases;

the Church's intrinsic power asserted

248

39. The Church's judgment about their right to meet sy-

nodically

250

TITLE XVI. The Order of the Rolls of Church Judicatories,

and Ranking of Church Office-bearers, and of her Registers.

1. Rolls of Kirk-sessions, and ranking of the Elders

2. How Ministers take place of one another

3. Rolls of Synods, how ordered; no act to hinder El-

ders to vote when they may be supernumerary to

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