hall
transgresse.

II. The Assembly also, taking to their consideration the book of Canons,
and the manner how it hath been introduced, findeth that it hath been
devised by the pretended Prelats, without warrand or direction from the
generall Assembly; and to establish a tyrannicall power in the persons of
the pretended Bishops, over the worship of God, mens consciences,
liberties and goods, and to overthrow the whole discipline and government
of the generall and Synodall Assemblies, Presbyteries, and Sessions
formerly established in our Kirk.

Therefore the Assembly all in one voice hath rejected and condemned, and
by these presents doth reject and condemne the said book, as contrare to
the confession of our Faith, and repugnant to the established government,
the book of Discipline, and the acts and constitutions of our Kirk:
prohibits the use and practise of the same; and ordains Presbyteries to
proceed with the censure of the Kirk against all such as shall
transgresse.

III. The Assembly having considered the book of consecration and
ordination, findeth it to have been framed by the Prelats, to have been
introduced and practised without warrand of authority, either civill or
ecclesiasticall: and that it establisheth offices in Gods house, which are
not warranded by the word of God, and are repugnant to the Discipline, and
constitutions of our Kirk, that it is an impediment to the entrie of fit
and worthie men to the ministery, and to the discharge of their dutie
after their entrie, conforme to the discipline of our Kirk. Therefore the
Assembly all in one voice hath rejected and condemned, and by these
presents doe reject and condemne the said book; and prohibits the use and
practise of the same: And ordaines Presbyteries to proceed with the
censure of the Kirk against all such as shall transgresse.

IV. The generall Assembly, after due tryall, having found that the Court
of high Commission, hath been erected without the consent or procurement
of the Kirk, or consent of the Estates in Parliament, that it subverteth
the jurisdiction and ordinarie judicatories and Assemblies of the
Kirk-Sessions, Presbyteries, provinciall and nationall Assemblies, that it
is not regulate by lawes civill or ecclesiasticall, but at the discretion
and arbitrement of the Commissioners; that it giveth to ecclesiasticall
persons, the power of both the swords, and to persons meerly civill, the
power of the keys and Kirk censures: Therefore