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A58583 Act ratifying the confession of faith and settling Presbyterian church-government Edinburgh, the seventh day of June, 1690. Scotland. 1690 (1690) Wing S1157; ESTC R34034 26,464 30

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ACT Ratifying the CONFESSION of FAITH And Settling PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-GOVERNMENT Edinburgh the Seventh Day of June 1690. EDINBVRH Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson Printer to the King and Queens most Excellent Majesties Anno. Dom. 1690. ACT Ratifying the Confession of Faith and Setting Presbyterian Church-Government Edinburgh the seventh day of June 1690. OUR Soveraign Lord and Lady the King and Queens Majesties and three Estates of Parliament Conceiving it to be their bound duty after the great deliverance that God hath lately wrought for this Church and Kingdom in the first place to settle and secure therein the true Protestant Religion according to the truth of GODS Word as it hath of a long time been professed within this Land as also the Government of Christ's Church within this Nation agreeable to the Word of God and most conducive to the advancement of true Piety and Godliness and the establishing of peace and Tranquility within this Realm And that by an Article of the Claim of Right it is Declared that Prelacy and the Superiority of any Office in the Church above Presbyters is and hath been a great and insupportable Grievance and Trouble to this Nation and contrary to the Inclinations of the generality of the people ever since the Reformation they having reformed from Popery by Presbyters and therefore ought to be Abolished Likeas by an Act of the last Session of this Parliament Prelacy is Abolished Therefore their Majesties with Advice and Consent of the said three Estates do hereby Revive Ratifie and perpetually Confirm all Laws Statutes and Acts of Parliament made against Popery and Papists and for the maintainance and preservation of the true reformed Protestant Religion and for the true Church of Christ within this Kingdom in so far they Confirm the same or are made in favours thereof Likeas they by these presents Ratify and Establish the Confession of Faith now read in their presence and Voted and Aproven by them as the publick and vowed Confession of this Church containing the sum and substance of the Doctrine of the Reformed Churches which Confession of Faith is subjoyned to this present Act. As also They do Establish Ratify and Confirm the Presbyterian Church-Government and Discipline That is to say the Government of the Church by Kirk-Sessions Presbyteries Provincial Synods and General Assemblies Ratified and Established by the 114 Act Ja. 6. Parl. 12. anno 1592. Intituled Ratification of the Liberty of the true Kirk c. And thereafter received by the General consent of this Nation to be the only Government of Christ's Church within this Kingdom Reviving Renewing and Confirming the foresaid Act of Parliament in the whole Heads thereof except that part of it relating to Patronages which is hereafter to be taken into Consideration and Rescinding Annulling and making void the Acts of Parliament following viz. Act anent Restitution of Bishops Ja. 6. Par. 18. Cap. 2. Act Ratifying the Acts of the Assembly 1610. Ja. 6. Par. 21. Cap. 1. Act anent the Election of Arch-bishops and Bishops Ja. 6. Par. 22. Cap. 1. Act Intituled Ratification of the five Articles of the General Assembly at Perth Ja. 6. Par. 23. Cap. 1. Act Intituled For the Restitution and Re-establishment of the Antient Government of the Church by Arch-bishops and Bishops Cha. 2. Par. 1. Sess 2. Act 1st Act anent the Constitution of a National Synod Ch. 2. Par. 1. Sess 3. Act 5. Act against such as refuse to Depone against Delinquents Ch. 2. Par. 2. Sess 2. Act. 2. Act Intituled Act Acknowledging and asserting the Right of Succession to the Imperial Crown of Scotland Ch. 2. Par. 3. Act 2. Act Intituled Act anent Religion and the Test Ch. 2. Par. 3. Act 6. With all other Acts Laws Statutes Ordinances and Proclamations and that in so far allanerly as the saids Acts and others generally and particularly above mentioned are contrary or prejudicial to inconsistent with or derogatory from the Protestant Religion and Presbyterian Government now Established and Allowing and Declaring That the Church Government be Established in the hands of and exercised by these Presbyterian Ministers who were Outed since the first of January 1661. for Non-conformity to Prelacy or not complying with the Courses of the Time and are now Restored by the late Act of Parliament and such Ministers and Elders only as they have admitted or received or shall hereafter admit or receive And also that all the said Presbyterian Ministers have and shall have Right to the Maintainance Rights and other Priviledges by Law provided to the Ministers of Christ's Church within this Kingdom as they are or shall be Legally admitted to particular Churches Likeas In pursuance of the Premisses Their Majesties Do hereby appoint the first meeting of the General Assembly of this Church as above Established to be at Edinburgh the third Thursday of October next to come in this instant year 1690. And because many Conform Ministers either have deserted or were removed from Preaching in their Churches preceeding the thirteenth day of April 1689. And others were Deprived for not giving Obedience to the Act of the Estates made the said 13 of April 1689 Intituled Proclamation against the owning of the late King James and Appointing Publick Prayers for King William and Queen Mary Therefore Their Majesties with Advice and Consent foresaid do hereby Declare all the Churches either Deserted or from which the Conform-ministers were Removed or Deprived as said is to be Vacant and that the Presbyterian Ministers exercising their Ministry within any of these Parishes or where the Last Incumbent is dead by the Desire or Consent of the Paroch shall continue their Possession and have Right to the Benefices and Stipends according to their Entry in the year 1689 and in time coming ay and while the Church as now Established take further Course therewith And to the Effect the Disorders that have hapned in this Church may be Redressed Their Majesties with Advice and Consent foresaid do hereby allow the General Meeting and Representatives of the foresaid Presbyterian Ministers and Elders in whose hands the Exercise of the Church Government is Established either by themselves or by such Ministers and Elders as shall be Appointed and Authorized Visitors by them according to the Custome and Practice of Presbyterian Government throughout the whole Kingdom and several parts thereof to try and purge out all Insufficient Negligent Scandalous and Erroneous Ministers by due course of Ecclesiastical Process and Censures and likewayes for Redressing all other Church-Disorders And further it is hereby provided that whatsoever Minister being Conveened before the said General-Meeting and Representatives of the Presbyterian Ministers and Elders or the Visitors to be Appointed by them shall either prove Contumacious in not appearing or be found Guilty and shall be therefore Censured whether by Suspension or Deposition they shall Ipso Facto be Suspended from or Deprived of their Stipends and Benefices And Ordains this Act to be Printed and Published Extracted forth