made the day before; all
persons that had any doubt or argument to propone, were required to
propone the same; but none offered to propone any argument on the
contrare.

In the Assembly holden at _Edinburgh_, in _October_ 1578. It was showen by
the Moderatour thereof to the noble-men, who were present, viz. _My Lord
Chancelour_, the Earle of _Montrose_, my Lord _Seaton_, and my Lord
_Lindsay_, _What care and study the Assembly had taken to entertain and
keep the puritie of the sincere word of God, unmixed with the inventions
of their own heads, and to preserve it to the posteritie hereafter, and
seeing that the true Religion is not able to continue nor endure long
without a good __ Discipline and policie, in that part also have they
imployed their wit and studie, and drawen forth out of the pure fountain
of Gods word, to bee a Discipline as is meet to remain in the Kirk_.

In the same Assembly, the speciall corruptions were set down, which they
craved such of the Bishops as would submit themselves to the Assembly to
remove, with promise, that if the generall Assembly, hereafter shall finde
further corruptions in the said estate, then hitherto are expressed that
they be content to be reformed by the said Assembly according to the word
of God, when they shall be required thereto. First, _That they be content
to bee Pastours and Ministers of one flock: That they usurpe no criminall
jurisdiction, that they vote not in Parliament in name of the Kirk,
without Commission from the Kirk: That they take not up for the
maintenance of their ambition and rictousnesse, the emoluments of the
Kirk, which may sustain many Pastours, the Schools, and the poore; but be
content with reasonable livings according to their office: That they
claime not to themselves the titles of Lords temporall, neither usurpe
temporall jurisdictions, whereby they are abstracted from their office:
That they empyre not above the particular Elderships, but be subject to
the same: That they usurpe not the power of the Presbyteries._

The question being proponed by the Synod at _Loutbian_ in the Assembly
holden in _July_ 1579. anent a generall order to be taken for erecting of
Presbyteries in places where publick exercise is used, untill the time the
policie of the Kirk be established by a law: It is answered, _The exercise
may be judged to be a Presbyterie._ In the Assembly holden at _Dundie_ in
_July_ 1580. Sess. 4, The office of a Bishop was abolished by a par