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TITLE X. Of Murder, Parricide, Duels, and Self-Murder.
1. That these crimes come under church cognizance
2. Murder, what, and of casual homicide
3. Homicide commited in self-defence, and how lawful.
bounds are exceeded
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How self-defence is proponed and proven
366
367
368
369
4. What is homicidium culposum, or faulty homicide
5. Wilful Murder, what, and what wound is to be
judged mortal
869
6. Killing of Robbers, Murderers, and Adulterers, how
warrantable
870
7. Fighters of Duels, how punished and censured
8. Self-Murder, how punished, and what defends against
370
its punishment
wod
371
372
12. The exposers of infants, how punished, and if they
be bastards
TITLE XI. Of Incest, Adultery, Bigamy, Rapes, Fornication,
et de Venere Monstrosa.
1. Incest, what, its kind, and how punished
2. Adultery, what
3. The difference betwixt single and notour adultery
4. Adultery, how punishable
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5. How the Church censures adulterers
6. The marriage ought to be proved, and what proba-
tion is requisite in adultery
7. How she is to be censured who lies with an un-
known man
8. Bigamy, what, and its punishment
9. A Rape, what, and its punishment
10. Minors, and such as force common whores, how pun. ishable
11. Fornication, what, and how punished and censured 12. What defends against the punishment 13. Venus monstrosa, how punished
TITLE XII. Of Penny-Bridals, Promiscuous Dancing, Stage-
Plays, Immodesty of Apparel, Drunkenness, Tippling, and
acts in general against Profaneness.
1. Penny-weddings, how restrained
378
379
5. Means and considerations for preventing drunkenness 380
Tippling punishable, as drunkenness
380
6. Drinking of healths a snare, drunkenness, how pun-
ished
7. If such as are drunk be punishable for crimes, and
can contract
381
8. Presbyteries may appoint informers against vice, and
how judges refusing to punish the same are liable 381
-Parish Magistrates for punishing vice, their sen-
tences not to be advocate or suspended
Difference in religion exeems not from church cen-
382
383
sure
9. Discipline to be faithfully exercised, and how the
quality is to be admonished
Who grant and use testimonials, their contents
Sessions and Presbyteries are to keep days for prayers,
and pass privy censure duly, and ministers to be
frequent in converse
Men of business not to be excused for tarrying late in
taverns, and carriers must have testimonials
Abstracts of Acts of Parliament and Assembly against
vice to be got
Gross ignorance, how to be censured
384
TITLE XIII. Of Theft, Sacrilege, Usury, Falsehood, Beggars,
and Vagabonds,
1. Theft, what, how punished, and when excusable
How stolen goods are to be recovered
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385
2. Sacrilege, what, and how punished
3. Usury, what, its several branches, how it is proven
4. False weights, their punishment
Assuming of a false name, how punished
387
888
5. Beggars and vagabonds, how suppressed and punished 388
TITLE XIV. Of Art and Part.
1. Art and Part explained
2. How far advice imports accession
3. Who are punishable as accessories in adultery
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What is Lenocinium
4. Panders, &c. and inn-keepers, how punishable for
whoredom and drunkenness
Book Fourth.
389
390
TITLE I. Of Scandals and Church-discipline in general; of
the Method of proceeding with the Scandalous, and how
Scandals are to be tabled before Church-judicatures.
1. Scandal, what
2. When offences are to be brought to public, and when
not
3. The ends and use of Church-discipline
4. Offences of the same kind not to be always managed
after the same manner
5. The order prescribed Matth. xviii. to be observed, and
what it implies
6. When a person is to be accounted obstinate
7. What satisfying, and what not, for removing of scan-
dal
393
394
8. Who are to be admitted to public repentance, and
when be absolved
395
9. Drunkenness, swearing, &c. how to be proceeded
against
10. Public place of repentance, how a civil punishment
11. Keys of doctrine and discipline how they differ
12. When necessary that offenders should speak in public, and how a public rebuke is to be given
396
897
13. Inscribere in crimen, what, who is a calumnious ac-
cuser; and who cannot accuse; how informers are
to be censured
397
14. Scandals tabled by inquisition, delation, and excep-
tion
398
-An informer may be a witness
15. Where scandalous persons are to satisfy, and what
warrants a kirk-session to admit process for un-
cleanness
TITLE II. Of the Transaction and Prescription of Scandals.
1. Transactions betwixt parties doth not sist process 399
2. The time for prescription of scandals, and requiring
of testimonials
TITLE III. Of Libels, Probation, and Citation.
1. A libel, what
399
400
2. A copy of the libel, with a list of witnesses, to be de
livered; it must condescend on time and place
3. What is a relevant libel, it is unlawful to be wit-
nesses, or on the assize of irrelevant libels
When the relevancy is to be discussed
401
402
4. Exculpation described, and when to be granted
5. Probation what, and by confession
6. Oath of calumny, verity, and credulity, what
4.03
7. Probation by oath of party instanced; it is not to be
pressed
403
8. Style of the oath of purgation
9. When and where this oath is to be allowed and
taken; and its effects
404
10. How the woman is to be censured when the fact is
14. Form of a diligence against witnesses, their non-
compearance to be censured
405
15. Objections against witnesses
406
16. How witnesses are to be sworn, examined, and sub-
scribe the initialia testimonii
17. Singularity of witnesses, what
407
18. Probation by notoriety, and if judges may be wit-
nesses
407.
19. How parties are duly sisted before a church-judica-
22. Citations dilatory and peremptory, how to proceed
with those who disobey or abscond
409
23. Style of a summons, and of the copy and execution
thereof, and of caution to appear
24. All defenders must appear personally, even though
minors, and how societies appear
410
TITLE IV. Of the Vocational and Personal Faults of Mi-
nisters and Probationers, how they are Censured, and of
the Method of Proceeding to Censure, and of reponing
them against these Censures
1. Non-residence what, and how censured, who are de-
serters, and how censured, and defences against
the same
2. Supine negligence what, and how censured
411
413
3. Dilapidation what, and how censurable
4. Simony what, and how proven and punished: Ambi-
tus, what, and how censured
414
5. Intruders and vagrant ministers, who, and how cen-
sured
6. Vocational faults of ministers, how censured
7. Personal faults of ministers, how censured
8. Remedies against vocational and personal faults of
ministers
9. What
warrants a Presbytery to enter in process
against a minister; and how accusers are to be ad-
mitted
415
416
418
419
10. The manner of
of citing ministers
confessing
420
12. How towards one absenting or contumacious
13. How towards him who compears, and denies, but
15. How to carry towards a minister charged with a
multitude of smaller things laid together
421
16. Absence from synods censured by suspension, and
why so called
17. Grounds of deposition what: Excommunication and
deposition in one sentence: No ministerial
communion with deposed ministers: A deposed
minister applying to the civil magistrate for repo-
sition, not to be restored
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