The Acts of the General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland

by Church of Scotland. General Assembly

Sess. 8. Aug. 2. 1641. a meridie.

Act against sudden receiving Ministers deposed.

The Assembly ordaines, that Ministers who are deposed either by Presbyteries, Synods, or Generall Assemblies, or Committees from Assemblies for the publike cause of the Reformation and order of this Kirk, shall not be suddenly received againe to the Ministerie, till they first evidence their repentance both before the Presbyterie and Synod, within the bounds where they were deposed, and thereafter the samine reported to the next ensuing Generall Assembly.