Fourthlie, To decerne upon sic things as aither was undecydit at the preceidand Assemblie and remittit to this, or else referrit hitherto, be the Lords of Sessione, Auditor of Chekker, or any uther wayes.
Sessio 2a. March 2, 1569(70).
The haill brethrene convenit, in ane voyce, for eschewing confusione in reasoning, chuse Mr John Craige, ane of the ministers of Edinburgh, to be Moderator in this Assembly, and to make the prayer and supplicatione in the beginning of the next Assembly, according to the order appointit.
Anent the complaint gine in be Thomas Smith in Ochiltrie, againes Mr John Smyth, minister in Ochiltrie, for debarring the said Thomas from the Lord’s table, because he removeit ane shoe off ane horse upon ane Sonday afternoone in Ochiltrie, where neither preaching nor publick prayers was. After long reasoning, the said Thomas was ordainit to be receavit to the participatione of the Lord’s table, and uther benefites of the Kirk, hereafter, notwithstanding of the alleadgit fault abovementionat.
The Kirk ordaynes sic persones as are convict of incest or adulterie, and hes not stubbornly contemnit the admonitions of the Kirk, nor sufferit the sentence of excommunication for their offences, shall make publict repentance in sackcloath, at their owne kirks, bairheaded and barefooted, three severall dayes of preaching, and after the said third day, to be receavit in the societie of the Kirk, in their owne cloathes. The uthers that hes been excommunicat for their offences shall present themselves bareheaded and barefooted sax preaching dayes, and the last, after sermone, to be receavit in their owne cloathes, as said is.
Sessio 3a. March 3, 1569(70).
Anent homicids, incestuous persones, and adulterers not fugitive from the lawes, but continuallie suteing to be receavit be the Kirk to publick repentance; after long reasoning, with mature deliberatione, the haill brethren presently assembleit, concludit, that all sic persones, humbly suiting, shall be receavit, to give the signes of their repentance in their awne kirks, according to the order appoyntit before, at qwhilk tyme the minister shall publickly notifie their crymes, that thereby the civill magistrates may know the crymes, and pretend no ignorance thereof.
Give they be excommunicat for their offences, they shall stand bareheaded at the kirk doore, every preaching day, betwixt the Assemblies, secluded from prayers before and after sermone, and then enter in the kirk, and sit in the publick place bareheaded, all the tyme of the sermons, and depart before the latter prayer.
The uthers that are not excommunicat shall be placeit in the publick place where they may be knawne from the rest of the people, bareheaded the tyme of the sermones, the minister remembering them in his prayer in the tyme after preaching; all the saids persons to bring their ministers’ testimonialls to the next Assembly of their behaviour in the meantyme, according to the act made thereupon be the Kirk in the 2d Sessione, halden July 7, 1569.
Anent the complaynt of the parochiners of the kirk of Kilmenie for wanting of ane minister to preach God’s word and minister the sacraments, the haill Kirk concludes, that in respect of the number of qualified and learnit men of the auld Colledge able to preach, and also the nearness of the said Colledge to the said kirk, That some of them shall either preache and minister the sacraments to the people, or else injoyne uthers to doe the same qwhill farder order be taine.