The Acts of the General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland

by Church of Scotland. General Assembly

August. 16. 1647 Postmeridiem. Sess. 2.

Act allowing the half of the Ministers in the Presbyterie of Zetland only, with their Ruling Elders, to keep the Provincial Assembly.

The General Assembly, Understanding that the whole Members of the Presbyterie of Zetland, joyned to the Provincial of Caithnes and Sutherland upon weighty considerations by the preceeding Assembly, cannot be by present at the meetings of that Provincial, without great prejudice to the particular Congregations within that Presbyterie, and many other inconveniences; That Isle being of great distance from Land, and the passage from and to the same being uncertain and dangerous: Doe therefore Declare and Ordaine, That the whole Ministers and Elders of the Presbyterie of Zetland shall not be tyed hereafter to come to meetings of their said Provincial; But that the half of the number of the Ministers with their Ruling Elders, [pg 329] shall be onely oblieged to keep the meetings of the said Provincial Assembly in time coming.