3. All the ecclesiasticall assembleis, haue power to convene lawchfullie togidder for treating of thingis concerning the kirk, and pertening to thair chargis.
4. Thay haue power to apoint tymis and places to that effect; and ane Assemblie to appoynt the dyet, tyme, and place for ane uther.
5. In all assembleis, ane moderator sould be chosine be commoun consent of the haill brethrene conveint, quha sould propone materis, gather the voitis, and caus guid ordour be kepit in the assembleis.
6. Diligence sould be tane, cheiflie be the moderator, that onlie ecclesiasticall thingis be handlit in the assemblie, and na melling with ony thingis pertening to the civile jurisdictioun.
7. Euerie assemblie hes power to send furth frome them of their awine nomber, ane or ma visitouris to sie how all thingis be reulit in the boundis of thair jurisdictioun.
8. Visitatioun of ma kirkis is na ordinar office ecclesiasticall, in the persone of ane man; nather may the name of ane bischop be attributit to the visitour onlie; nather is it necessar to abyd alwyse in ane man’s persone, bot it is the part of the eldarschip, to send out qualifeit personis to visit, pro re nata.
9. The finall end of all assembleis is, first to keip the religioun and doctrine in puritie, without errour and corruptioun: nixt, to keip cumelines and guid ordor in the kirk.
10. For the ordouris caus, thay may mak certane reulis and constitutionis apperteining to the guid behaviour of all the memberis of the kirk in thair vocatioun.
11. Thay haue power also to abrogat and abolish all statuts and ordinances concerning ecclesiasticall materis, that ar found noysume or unprofitable, or aggrie not with the tyme, or abusit be the peple.
12. Thay haue power to execut ecclesiasticall discipline and punischment upone all transgressouris, and proud contempnaris of guid ordour and policie of the kirk, and swa the haill discipline is in thair handis.