re._

"_That the Assembly command all their members, that none of them
await on the court and afairs thereof without the advice and
allowance of their Presbyterie. Item, that they intend no action
civill without the said advice; except in small maters: and for
remeding of the necessitie, that some Ministers hath to enter in
plea of law, that remedie bee craved, that short processe bee
devised, to bee used in Ministers actions._

"_That Ministers take speciall care in using godly excercises in
their families, in teaching of their wives, children, and
servants, in using ordinarie prayers and reading of Scriptures, in
removing of offensive persons out of their families, and such like
other points of godly conversation, and good example, & that they
at the visitation of their Kirks, try the Ministers families in
these points foresaid, and such as are found negligent in these
points, foresaid after due admonition, shall be adjudged unmeet to
govern the house of God, according to the rule of the Apostle._

"_That Ministers in all companies strive to bee spirituall and
profitable, and to talke of things pertaining to godlinesse, as
namely of such as may strengthen us in Christ, instruct us in our
calling, of the means how to have Christs Kingdome better
established in our Congregations, and to know how the Gospel
flourisheth in our flocks, and such like others the hinderances,
and the remeeds that we finde, &c. wherein there is manifold
corruptions, both in our companying with our selves, and with
others: and that the contraveeners thereof be tryed, and sharply
be rebuked._

"_That no Minister be found to contenance, procure, or assist a
publick offender challenged by his own Ministers, for his publick
offence, or to bear with him, as though his Minister, were too
severe upon him, under pain of admonition and rebuking._"

Anent generall Assemblies.

"_To urge the keeping of the Acts anent the keeping of the
Assembly, that it may have the own reverence and majestie--_"

_The Assembly having heard the whole act read, most unanimously
alloweth and approveth this article._

X. Anent the defraying of the expenses of the Commissioners to the
generall Assembly, referreth and recommendeth the same unto the particular
Presbyterie, and especially to the ruling Elders therein, that they ma