t the transgressours by the several
Presbyteries, and in case of their refusal, by the several Commissioners
from this Assembly: Whereunto also we are confident, the honourable Judges
of this land will contribute their civill authority: and this to be
intimat publickly in pulpit, with the other generall acts of this
Assembly.

Act. Sess. 26. December 20. 1638.

The generall Assembly ordaineth all Presbyteries and Provinciall
Assemblies to conveen before them, such as are scandalous and malicious,
and will not acknowledge this Assembly, nor acquiesce unto the acts
thereof: And to censure them according to their malice and contempt, and
acts of this Kirk: and where Presbyteries are refractarie, granteth power
unto the severall Commissions to summond them to compear before the next
generall Assembly to be holden at _Edinburgh_, the third Wedinsday of
Julie, to abide their tryall and censure.

Act Sess. 26. December 20. 1638.

The Assembly considering the acts and practise of this Kirke in her purest
times, that the Commissioners of every Presbyterie, Burgh, and
Universitie, were both ordained to take, and really did take from the
Clerk; the whole generall acts of the Assembly, subscribed by the Clerk:
Whereby they might rule and conforme their judicatorie themselves, and all
persons within their jurisdictions, unto the obedience thereof:
Considering the great prejudices we have lately felt out of ignorance of
the acts of Assembly, Considering also the great necessity in this time of
reformation, beyond any other ordinarie time, to have an extract thereof:
The Assembly ordaineth be this present act, that all Commissioners from
Presbyteries, Burghes and Universities, presently get under the Clerks
hand an Index of the acts, till the acts themselves be extracted, and
thereafter to get the full extract of the whole generall acts, to be
insert in their Presbyterie books, whereby all their proceedings may be
regulate in time coming. Likeas the Assembly recommendeth unto every Kirk
Session, for the preservation of their particular Paroch from the reentrie
of the corruptions now discharged, and for their continuance in the
Covenant, anent doctrine, worship and discipline now declared, to obtain
an extract of these acts: especially if they be printed: Seeing their
pryce will no wayes then be considerable: as the benefite both of the
particular Parish, and the interest of the whole Kirk, in the preservation
there