Forsuameikle as in reading in schooles, of prophane authors, qwherin many things are written, directly impugning the grounds of religion, and speciallie in the Philosophie of Aristotle, oft tymes the youth being curious and of insolent spirits, drinks in erroneous and damnable opiniones, and founding them upon the bruckle authoritie of the prophane wryters, and maintayns their godless and prophane opiniones, obstinatly in disputation and utherwayes, to the great sclander of the word of God, and offence of the simple and unlearnit: Thairfore, it is provydit, after reasonyng and good advyce, be universall consent agreit, that in all tymes coming, the maisters, regents, and teachers of the scholers in reading of prophane authors, shall vigilantly take heid if there be any thing alleadgit or written in them against the grounds and heads of Religione, and, in teaching thereof, to mark and note the places evict, and confute the errors, and admonische the youth to eschew the same as false and erroneous; and namely, in teaching of philosophie, to note the propositiones following, as erroneous, false, and against the Religione, and condemnit be commone vote of the haill Kirk:—
1. Omnis finis est opus aut operatio.
2. Civilis secta et præstantissima, ejusque finis præstantissimus et summum hominis bonum.
3. Honesta et justa varia sunt, et inconstantia a Deo et sola opinione constent.
4. Juvenes et rerum imperiti et in libidinem proclives ab audienda morum physica arcendi.
5. Quod aliud ab aliis bonis et per se bonum est, et causa cur cætera per se bona sunt, non est summum bonum.
6. Dei agnitio nihil prodest artifici ad hoc ut arte sua bene utatur.
7. Summum bonum vel {blank space} boni accessione augeri, et reddi potest optabilius.
8. Pauper deformis orbus aut infans, beatus esse non potest.