12. For better keeping of the Sabbath, let every Elder take notice of such as are within his bounds, how they keep the [pg 428] Kirk, how the time is spent before, betwixt, and after the time of publick Worship.
13. Let no Minister resort to any Excommunicate person without licence from the Presbyterie nisi in extremis, and let Ministers take special notice of such persons as haunt with Excommunicants, and processe them.
14. Frequent correspondence betwixt presbyteries is a good remedie.
15. At the visitation of each Congregation, let the Session Book be well visited, and for that effect, let it be delivered to two or three Brethren seven or eight dayes before the visitation, that their report of it may be in readinesse against the Day of Visitation.
The Assembly allows of all these Overtures and Remedies of the Sins of the Land; And Ordains all of them to be carefully and conscionably put in practise.
Act for examining the Paraphrase of the Psalms and other Scripturall Songs.
The Generall Assembly Appoints Rouse Paraphrase of the Psalms, with the corrections thereof now given in by the persons appointed by the last Assembly for that purpose, to be sent to Presbyteries, That they may carefully revise and examine the same, and thereafter send them with their corrections to the Commission of this Assembly to be appointed for publick affairs, Who are to have a care to cause reexamine the Animadversions of Presbyteries, and prepare a report to the next Generall Assembly; Intimating hereby, That if Presbyteries be negligent hereof the next General Assembly is to go on & take the same Paraphrase to their consideration without more delay: And the Assembly Recommends to Master John Adamson and Mr. Thomas Crafurd to revise the Labours of Mr. Zachary Boyd upon the other Scripturall Songs, and to prepare a report thereof to the said Commission for publick affairs, That after their [pg 429] examination, the same may be also reported to the next Generall Assembly.