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

202 THE REGISTER OF CONSULTATIONS
and the prejudices the ministers lawfully entered do suffer
by want of orders for receiving their maintenance ; and
to enquyre if any answer may be now expected to their
Petition presented in February against the Ordinance
relateing to the entry of ministers.
The President returned this answer that the Councill
was to take further order with Papists, and that now there
was a new order come downe giving unto the Councill
the full power for appointing mentenance unto intrants
in the ministrie, which would take off restraints in the
former ordinance complained of.
The Brethren thought convenient that the correspond¬
ents in everie Synod should give notice to the severall
Presbytries within their bounds, that intrants might now
expect that they would be admitted to make addresse to
the Councill by supplication, bringing with them certi¬
ficates from their Presbytries, the tenor of the supplica¬
tions and certificates being as follows.
A Form of Testificat by Presbytries to the Councill
To his Highness Council in Scotland
for the Government thereof.
The Brethren of the Presbytrie of A. do humbly certifie
that B. C., upon a lawfull election and in the way and
order prescrived in this Church, now admitted Minister
at D., is of an holy life and unblameable conversation, and,
for the grace of God in him, and for his knowledge and
utterance, able and fitt to preach the Gospell.
Subscrived in name and at command of the Presby¬
trie by E. F. (Moderator).
A. 15 August 1655.
The Form of the Intrant’s Petition to the Councill
To his Highness Councill in Scotland for the Government
thereof. The Petition of B. C. Humbly sheweth,—
That your Petitioner being now lawfully called and
admitted to the ministry at D. according to the order