A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are…A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are…

saith, In the order of Election it is to be eschewed that any person be intruded in any offices of the Kirk, contrary to the will of the Congregation to which they are appointed, or without the voice of the Eldership: The General Assembly at Edinburgh, in Decemb: 1562. Sess: 3. Made this Act, that inhibition shall be made to all and sundry persons, now serving in the Ministry that have not been presented be the people, or a part thereof to the superintendent: The General Assembly at Edinburgh, May 1586. Sess. 5. requireth the consent of the whole Parish to a Ministers Election, the words are these; Anent the doubt moved if it be lawful to any town, or city, where there is an University, and a part of the parish of the same town lying to landward, without their consent and votes to Elect a Minister to the whole parish and University, pretending the privilege of an old use and custom. The Kirk hath voted thereto negative, that it is not lawful so to do: The General Assembly at Perth, in March 1596. Sess. 6. Doth forbid the choosing of Ministers without the consent of their own flocks: The General Assembly at Glasgow, Sess. 23. art. 2o. Doth revive the ancient order thus, anent the presenting either ⟨p. 21⟩of Pastors, or Elders and School-masters, to particular Congregations, that there be a respect had to the Congregation, and that no person be intruded in any office of the Kirk contrary to the will of the Congregation to which they are appointed In the Treatise called, The order and government of the Church of Scotland (published anno 1641. For information of the English, and for removing and preventing all prejudices which the best affected among them had, or might conceive against our Church government) we have these words, pag 8. So that no man is here intruded upon the people against their open or tacit consent and approbation, or without the voices of the particular Eldership, with whom he is to serve in the Ministry. And now if in any Congregation of Scotland, the practise should be contrary to the profession, and rule established (which God forbid, and I hope it never shall) it were a double fault and scandal. Finally, the order of the Church of Scotland is strengthened by the civil law of the Kingdom: For the second Parliament of King Charles, Act 7. did ordain Presbyteries to plant vacand Kirks with consent of the Parishes.

saith, In the order of Election it is to be eschewed that any person be intruded in any offices of the Kirk, contrarie to the will of the Congregation to which they are appointed, or without the voice of the Eldership: The Generall Assemblie at Edinburgh, in Decemb: 1562. Sess: 3. Made this Ast, that inhibition shall be made to all and sundry persons, now serving in the Ministery that have not been presented be the people, or a part thereof to the superintendent: The Generall Assemblie at Edinburgh, May 1586. Sess. 5. requireth the consent of the whole Parish to a Ministers Election, the wordsare these; Anent the doubt moved if it be lawfull to any towne, or city, where there is an Vniversitie, and a part of the parish of the same towne lying to landward, without their consent and votes to Elect a Minister to the whole parish and Vniversitie, pretending the priviledge of an old use and custome. The Kirk hath voted thereto negative, that it is not lawfull so to do: The Generall Assemblie at Perth, in March 1596. Sess. 6. Doth forbid the choosing of Ministers without the consent of their owne flocks: The Generall Assembly at Glasgow, Sess. 23. art. 2o. Doth revive the ancient order thus, anent the presenting either