Procedure: ratification of the propositions for church government
Ratification of the propositions for church government, ordination of ministers and of the act of assembly relating thereto

The estates of parliament, now convened in the second session of this first triennial parliament by virtue of the last act of the last parliament held by his majesty and three estates in 1641, after public reading of the following propositions concerning kirk government and ordination of ministers, together with the act of the general assembly approving the same, do unanimously ratify and approve the said propositions according to the said act of the general assembly, to the which act the estates do hereby add the authority of parliament and ordain the same to have the strength and force of a law in all time coming.

  1. NAS. PA2/23, f.200r. Back