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4. Rolls of General Assemblies
5. Minutes revised and signed before extract or record-
ing-
6. Clerk and Moderator a check to one another; the at-
testation and title of the registers
252
7. Form of approving Church-registers runs in a nega
tive style
8. Order in filling up blanks, deletings, interlinings,
and omissions in registers
253
9. The registers, how to be preserved
10. Civilities paid by the Church
254
TITLE XVII. Of Visitation of Schools and Universities.
1. Visitation of Schools and Colleges were appointed by
authority of the General Assembly
2. Power of visitation claimed by the Sovereign; Vi-
sitors' power and work distinguished
3. Who are ordinarily the greatest enemies to the
Church visitations
4
4. Presbyteries may yet visit Grammar-schools twice
a-year
5. Who examines Schoolmasters at their admission
6. Corresponding of Universities
TITLE XVII. Of a General Council of Protestants.
1. Corresponding with Foreign Churches, such as Mag-
deburgh, 1577, and Westminster, 1643, the ex-
penses and safe conduct of correspondents
2. General Council, its authority
3. The manner of convocating and proportioning the
representation
4. Matters of faith almost agreed to already
5. Time of Meeting, and President of this Council
6. The benefit of this subordination
Book Second.
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TITLE I. Of Lecturing, Preaching, Catechising, Public Pray-
ers before and after Sermon, Singing of Psalms, and Mi-
nisterial Benediction.
1. Nothing to be admitted in the Worship of God but
what is prescribed in Scripture
2. How the Congregation doth assemble
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4. Why the Word is to be publicly read, and by whom 260
5. How much is to be read at a time, and the order of
reading and expounding
260
6. When Lecturing begins, and how long to continue,
according to the old and later actsmoil novogewe
7. Preaching, its excellency and subject-matter wuMDOR 261
8. Introduction, sum, and division of the textắt con W 261
9. How doctrines are to be raised, explained, illustrated,
and confirmed
261
10. What kind of doubts and controversies are to be raised
and solved flag of 1978-712 >rem o 262
11. Doctrines are to be applied in uses of instruction,
confutation, exhortation, reproof, consolation, and
trial, and how mst in evah quiv gedusili bus atas 1 262
12. The design of this method idknow oś-010 2191lovnik 268 13. Catechetical doctrine to be preached, and the nature)!! of catechising Dzogabad 263 ed
14. None to teach publicly out of their own bounds with-
out leave
15. Parochial catechising is appointed to be weekly, not
264
so week-day Sermonsin od o modw of InA 264
16. Who are to be examined, how often, and from what
age; with the use of examination-rolls reibind 265
17. Catechisms larger and shorter, their uses in catechis
ing
18. A, B, C, Catechism condemned
19. When a rebuke is to be given at catechising
20. Of public prayers, and the mind of the Directory
about them
21. The present custom of using the Lord's Prayer
22. Of public prayers before Sermon, taken out of the
Directory for public worship, agreed unto by the
Assembly 1645
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23. Public prayer after Sermon
270
24. The meaning of the Directory
25. Of singing of Psalms, and the authority of the pre-
sent Paraphrase
26, Singing is not to be interrupted by reading of the
line
271
27. Scripture-songs to be used in families, and prepared
for public use
28. The design and intention of the soul in singing.
272
29. Ministerial benediction.
30. Bowing in the pulpit to be laid aside
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TITLE II. Of Family Worship.
1. Habitual neglectors of family worship censurable by
suspension from the Lord's table
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2. Secret worship to be performed
3. What family worship is d
4. Reading of the Scriptures to be improved in family
conference
5. Chaplains, their use and abusei 4000
6. No mere stranger to perform family-worship
7. Set forms for prayer, in cases of necessity, allowed
8. Materials for family prayer nollstevs
9. Fasts and thanksgiving days in families akili
10 Travellers are to worship together u
11. Church office bearers who neglect family-worship to
be deposed
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TITLE III. Of Baptism.
1. What Baptism is of botulogy; a in
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2. And to whom to be administered qubes 1914 276
3. The engagement of parents in Baptism binds their'
children alien no 1 : 1849 to 980 5 13
4. When another sponsor than the parent is necessary
5. When the Session should be sponsor
6. Baptism not to be imposed; the age and qualifica
tions of a sponsorius fokig ba
7. The use, end, and form of testimonials..
8. Their import, and how and why different from testi- monials, in order to the Lord's Supper
9. Form of baptismal engagement
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10. The form of ministration of Baptism and the prayer
11. Ministers are to reject indecent names to children^
12. Private use of sacraments condemned
13. Register of Baptism
14. Baptism to be but once administered
15. He who baptiseth must be ordained and lawfully
called
TITLE IV. Of the Lord's Supper.
1. What the Lord's Supper is
2. Who may be admitted thereto, and who not
3. The ordinary elements to be used in the Lord's Sup-
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per
4. Communicants to be recorded by the Session's order,
and admitted by their sentence after trial
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5. How strangers are admitted with, and how without
testimonials
6. Ministers' behaviour, especially with persons when
first admitted
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7. Persons guilty of more private scandals, how to be
8. Persons who converse not together, how to be ad-
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mitted 286
9. Persons scandalous per famam clamosam, how to be
admitted or attested
messi on 287
10. How to admit those who take some different methods
from the church
11. How those who are guilty of national sins should be
288
12. How non-communicants should be treated?
13. The design and distribution of tickets
4. Fencing and opening of the tables; its use and end 289
18. What intervenes betwixt the action-sermon and the
19. The minister's behaviour at the action
20. Service of tables by elders and deacons
21. The behaviour of ministers and communicants during
the service
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22. Exhortation and thanksgiving after all have commu-
nicate, and the conclusion
293
23. The frequent celebration of the Lord's Supper re-
commended
24. How communion elements are paid, and applied
when the communion is not celebrate
4. Marriage may be declared null upon impotency, and
when not
295
5. Who cannot consent cannot marry.
296
6. Consent of parents, and of promises of marriage made
9. Marriage with Papists
297
10. Marriage delayed forty days after Proclamation, and
scorning the Kirk
11. When Adultery and wilful desertion annul Marriage 298
12. Re-marrying in case of Divorce or proven Adultery 299
13. Force annuls Marriage
298
299
14. Time and place of Marriage
15. No Marriage without Proclamation of Banns, unless
the Presbytery dispense therewith
300
16. Clandestine Marriage, what; its punishment and cen-
sure
17. Objectors against the Marriage on that day ought to
find-caution
301
18. Form of solemnization of the Marriage covenant 301
19. Register of Marriage and Baptisms; how to bear
faith,
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TITLE VI. Of Visitation of the Sick.
1. Ministers, Elders, or Deacons, should be cautious in
being alone with unmarried women when sick or
in trouble
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302
2. Ministers and people are frequently to converse about
their soul-matters
3. The matter of his conference when sent for to the
sick
4. How to deal with the ignorant, doubting, and secure 303
5. How to deal with those of whose well-being there is
ground of hope
6. The Minister is to pray, if desired, and for what
7. Peculiar admonitions to the sick, and exhortations to
such as are present; why the sick-roll is read in
public
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TITLE VII. Of Burial of the Dead, Lyke-wakes, and Dirgies.
1. The manner of burial