Series 3 > Register of the consultations of the ministers of Edinburgh and some other brethren of the ministry > Volume 1

FIRST REGISTER: REMEDIES
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tion of the congregation, and without orderlie triall and
ordination by the Presbyterie ; but that the calling of
persons to the office of the Ministerie be performed and
caried on according to the established ordour of this Kirk,
and specially the Act of the Generali Assemblie 1649,
intituled The Directione for election of Ministers, whereby
it is determined that the session or Eldership of a con¬
gregation shall first nominat the persone to be the minister,
that unto their nomination afterward shall be craved the
assent of the people, and if there be any dissenting by them,
that the dissent either of the greater or lesser part be
brought to the Presbyterie who are to cognosce there
upon, and, having setled the matter of the election, they
are to goe on to the triall of the person elected, his abilities
for the work of the Ministrie, and of his life and conversa¬
tion, and thereupon to ordination and admission, haveing
found him pious and duely qualified for the charge, all
which procedure is according to the apostolick and primi¬
tive paterne, and agreeablie to sound reason.
4. That Ministers, lawfullie and orderlie called by
election of the people and the ordination and admission of
the Presbytrie, be allowed to enjoy forthwith the main¬
tenance sett apart and appointed for the entertainment of
the Ministrie of the Gospell according to the law' of the
Nation, which determines it to be a sufficient right and
clame to the stipend of a paroch, that a man be lawfullie
admitted to the office of the Ministerie therein by the
Presbytrie.
5. That all Ministers and other Church rulers, laying
aside their heart burnings and leaving their distractions
and divided actings, unite with their Brethren in their
severall respective places and judicatories, and joyne and
concurre therein in an unanimous way for the exercise of
Ecclesiastick government for preserving and promoveing
the work of Reformation in all the parts thereof, for
advanceing the Kingdom of Jesus Christ and the spirituall
good of His people, and particularlie that the purgeing
out of such Ministers as may be found scandalous or un¬
sufficient may be unanimously, vigorouslie, and effectually