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

132 THE REGISTER OF CONSULTATIONS
authority above Synods or not subordinate and count¬
able unto Provincial! Synods respective, now in this
present case of our want of Generali Assemblies which
only can have power to appoint such Comittees, for we
know that Provincial! Synods have intrinsecally the same
power of jurisdiction intensive in their respective bounds,
that is in a Generali Assemblie, and so in the case that
we cannot have a Generali Assembly comes in the place
thereof as to all maters of jurisdiction in their respective
bounds ; so that still the mater is dispensed when dis¬
pensed by them, by judicatories of the Kirk haveing power
and authority thereanent by divine institution: But
Committees haveing authority over Synods or not sub¬
ordinate or countable to the respective Synods and not
appointed by a Generali Assembly, are not judicatories
of the Kirk in themselves appointed by God, nor have
Synods nor any other persons power to appoint or delegate
Committees of that kinde.
7. As to that which hath been said concerning our con¬
cession relateing to the 6th article of our Brethren’s over¬
ture, 1, The first parte of the said 6th article is not absolutely
denyed as hath been alledged, for we haveing in our con¬
cessions said that we can neither justify nor condemn the
deeds of Synods and Presbyteries that have readmitted or
opened the mouths of persons so censured, as is mentioned
in their article, before these Synods and Presbyteries be
heard (what judicatorie hath power to doe this, let be private
men ?) wee declare that it is our mynd and judgement
that their deeds be tryed and judged by their respective
superior judicatories, and accorded also, for the time of
this interruption of Generali Assemblies upon the best
expedient we could think upon consistent with the estab¬
lished government of this Kirk in reference to the deeds
of Synods in such matters. 2, Neither is the latter part
of the Concession so little worth as hath been alledged,
seeing all these persons purged out from the Ministerie
are not as yet readmitted, nor have their mouthes oppened.
3, There is also a third thing in that article, viz:—That
which was desired concerning persons purged out and