OF

THE LAWS

OF THE

CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.

SECOND EDITION.

Part Second.

NEC TAMEN CONSUMEBATUR.

EDINBURGH:

EDINBURGH PRINTING AND PUBLISHING CO.

GLASGOW: J. SMITH AND SON, AND M. OGLE.
ABERDEEN: BROWN AND CO. AND LEWIS SMITH.
LONDON: SMITH, ELDER, AND CO.

M.DCCC. XL.

THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY

NOV 2 4 1915

ANDOVER

THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

A66,313

EDINBURGH PRINTING COMPANY, 12, SOUTH ST DAVID STREET.

MMARY VIEW OF THE VARIOUS ACTS OF PARLIAMENT RELATIVE TO
THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND; A PRACTICAL ACCOUNT OF THE COURT
OF TEINDS; A DIGEST OF DECISIONS IN THE LAW OF SCOTLAND,
RELATIVE TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS OF THE CHURCH AND
CLERGY; NOTES ON THE POOR-LAWS, PAROCHIAL

SCHOOLS, &c.

AND

AN ENLARGED ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEDURE OF THE COMMISSIONS
OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME PUBLISHED FROM THE ORIGINAL RECORDS.

SECOND EDITION.

NEC TAMEN CONSUMEBATUR.

EDINBURGH:

EDINBURGH PRINTING AND PUBLISHING CO.

12, SOUTH ST DAVID STREET.

M.DCCC. XL.

718 Scot.

INTRODUCTION

TO THE FIRST EDITION OF

ABRIDGMENT OF THE ACTS OF THE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

In the year 1706, an Abridgment of the Acts of the General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland was compiled by the Reverend Mr Bell; and about the same time Mr John Dundas, principal clerk of the Assembly, and agent for the Church, undertook a similar work, which was brought down to the year 1720. In 1801, the Reverend Robert Gillan republished this latter work; and in 1821 he published a new edition of it, with a continuation up to that date.

Mr Dundas Abridgment, of which, indeed, so far as it goes, Mr Gillan's is a mere transcript, both in the matter and arrangement, was in its original plan and structure objectionable; for, besides the legislative acts of the supreme authority of the Church, strictly considered, it was encumbered with a mass of addresses, exhortations, and other papers, which were of a temporary nature, and which never were clothed with the