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B05193 Act for settling the quiet and peace of the church. Edinburgh, the twelfth day of June, one thousand six hundred ninety three. Scotland. Parliament. Committee of Estates. 1693 (1693) Wing S1105; ESTC R183908 1,603 1

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ACT For Settling the Quiet and Peace of the Church Edinburgh the Twelfth Day of June One Thousand six hundred ninety three OVR SOVERAIGN LORD and LADY the King and Queens Majesties with Advice and Consent of the Estates of Parliament Ratifie Approve and perpetually Confirm the fifth Act of the second Session of this current Parliament Intituled Act Ratifying the Confession of Faith and settling Presbyterian Church-Government in the whole Heads Articles and Clauses thereof And Do further Statute and Ordain That no person be admitted or continued for hereafter to be a Minister or Preacher within this Church unless that he having first Taken and Subscribed the Oath of Allegiance and Subscribed the Assurance in manner appointed by another Act of this present Session of Parliament made thereanent Do also Subscribe the Confession of Faith Ratified in the foresaid fifth Act of the second Session of this Parliament declaring the same to be the Confession of his Faith and that he owns the Doctrine therein contained to be the true Doctrine which he will constantly adhere to As likewise that he owns and acknowledges Presbyterian Church-Government as settled by the foresaid fifth Act of the second Session of this Parliament to be the only Government of this Church and that he will submit thereto and concur therewith and never endeavour directly or indirectly the prejudice or subversion thereof And their Majesties with Advice and Consent foresaid Statute and Ordain That Vniformity of Worship and of the administration of all publick Ordinances within this Church be observed by all the saids Ministers and Preachers as the samine are at present performed and allowed therein or shall be hereafter declared by the authority of the same and that no Minister or Preacher be admitted or continued for hereafter unless that he subscribe to observe and do actually observe the foresaid Vniformity And for the more effectual Settling the Quiet and Peace of this Church The Estates of Parliament do hereby make an humble Address to Their Majesties That they would be pleased to Call a General Assembly for the ordering the affairs of the Church and to the end that all the present Ministers possessing Churches not yet admitted to the exercise of the foresaid Church-Government conform to the said Act and who shall qualifie themselves in manner foresaid and shall apply to the said Assembly or the other Church Judicatures competent in an orderly way each man for himself be received to partake with them in the Government thereof Certifying such as shall not qualifie themselves and apply to the said Assemly or other Judicatures within the space of thirty days after meeting of the said first Assembly in manner foresaid that they may he Deposed by the Sentence of the said Assembly and other Judicatures tam ab officio quam à benefficio and withal Declaring That if any of the saids Ministers who hath not been hitherto received into the Government of the Church shall offer to qualifie themselves and to apply in manner foresaid they shall have their Majesties full Protection ay and while they shall be admitted and received in manner foresaid providing always that this Act and the benefit thereof shall no ways be extended to such of the saids Ministers as are Scandalous Erroneous Negligent or Insufficient and against whom the same shall be verified within the space of thirty days after the said application but these and all others in like manner guilty are hereby Declared to be lyable and subject to the Power and Consure of the Church as accords and to the effect that the Representation of this Church in its General Assemblies may be the more equal in all time coming Recommends it to the first Assembly that shall be Called so appoint Ministers to be sent as Commissioners from every Presbytry not in equal numbers which is manifestly unequal where Presbytries are so but in a due proportion to the Churches and Parochines within every Presbytry as they shall judge convenient and it is hereby Declared That all School-masters and Teachers of Youth in Schools are and shall be lyable to the Tryal Judgment and Censure of the Presbytries of the bound for their Sufficiency Qualifications and Deportment in the said Office And Lastly Their Majesties with advice and consent foresaid Do hereby Statute and Ordain That the Lords of their Majesties Privy Council and all other Magistrats Judges and Officers of Justice give all due assistance for making the Sentences and Censures of the Church and Judicatures thereof to be obeyed or otherways effectual as accords Extracted forth of the Records of Parliament by TARBAT Cls. Regist GOD Save King William and Queen Mary Edinburgh Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson Printer to their most Excellent Majesties Anno Dom. 1695.