ion would be granted hereafter without citation of
parties having interest (_viz._ the Minister who is sought and his Parish)
to hear what they can oppose, and the matter is to come first to both the
Presbyteries (_viz._ that wherein the Minister dwels, whose transportation
is sought, and the other Presbyterie to which he is sought if the Kirks
lye in several Presbyteries) and if the Presbyteries agree not, then the
matter is to be brought to the Synod, or Generall Assembly (which of them
shall first occure after such transportation is sought) and if the Synod
(occurring first) agree not; or if there be appeale made from it, then the
matter is to come to the Generall Assembly.

II. A Minister may be transplanted from a particular Congregation (where
he can onely doe good to a part) to such a place, where he may benefit the
whole Kirk of _Scotland_ because, in reason the whole is to be preferred
to a part, such as _Edinburgh_.

1. Because all the great Justice Courts sit there, as Councell, Session,
Justice Generall, Exchequer, &c. and it concerns the whole Kirk, that
these Fountains of Justice be kept clean, both in the point of Faith, and
Manners.

2. Because there is great confluence to _Edinburgh_, from time to time, of
many of the chief Members of the whole Kingdome, and it concerns the whole
Kirk to have these well seasoned, who (apparantly) are to be the
Instruments of keeping this Kirk and Kingdome in good temper.

That this may be the more easily done, the Assembly first recommends to
_Edinburgh_, that some young men of excellent spirits may be (upon the
charges of the said Town) trained up, at home or abroad, toward the
Ministery from time to time. Secondly we meane not, that all the places of
the Ministrie of _Edinburgh_ be filled with Ministers to be transported by
Authority of this Act, but only till they be provided of one Minister
(transplanted by the Authority of the Assembly) for every Kirk in
_Edinburgh_, and that the rest of the places be filled either according to
the Generall Rules of transportation for the whole Kingdome, or by
agreement with actuall Ministers, and their Parishes, with consent of the
Presbyterie or Synod, to the which they belong.

III. In the next roome, we finde, that it is a transporting of Ministers
for publike good, that Colledges, (having the profession of Divinitie) be
wel provided of professors.

Wherin the Colledge of Divinitie in S. _Andrews_ is first to be served
wi