. The principall acts of the Generall Assembly, conveened at Edinburgh upon the first Wednesday of August, the 4. of that moneth, in the year 1647 . ation without any other Call, toconfultandadvife with about matters of Religion * And although likewifethe Minifters of Chrift without delegation from their Churches,may of themfelves, and by vertue of their O ffice meet togetherSynodically in fuch Kirks notyet conftituted^ Yet neither of thefeought to be done in Kirks conftituted and fetled: It being alwayesfree to the Magiftrate to advife with Synods of Minifters and ru-ling Elders meeting upon
. The principall acts of the Generall Assembly, conveened at Edinburgh upon the first Wednesday of August, the 4. of that moneth, in the year 1647 . ation without any other Call, toconfultandadvife with about matters of Religion * And although likewifethe Minifters of Chrift without delegation from their Churches,may of themfelves, and by vertue of their O ffice meet togetherSynodically in fuch Kirks notyet conftituted^ Yet neither of thefeought to be done in Kirks conftituted and fetled: It being alwayesfree to the Magiftrate to advife with Synods of Minifters and ru-ling Elders meeting upon delegation from their Churches, eitherordinarly,or being indicted by his Authority occafionally andfnrentta-. It being alfo free to aflemble together Synodically,as wt\\ f re re nata9 as at the ordinary times upon delegation fromthe Churches, by the intrinficall power received from Chrift, asoften as it is neceflary for the good of the Church fo to afTcm ble, .in cafe the Magiftrate to the detriment of the Church withholdor deny his content, the neceflity pf occafionall AfTemblies beingfirft remonftrate unto him by humble fupplication. The Cjenerall Ajfembly 7 \6tf. %i Edinburgh 28 Augufl \ ^ntemerudxem. Sefli XXV. J& for revifing the Taraphrafe of the Tfalmesbrought from England, with a recommen-dation for Tranflating the other Scriptural!Songs in Adeeter. He Generall Aflembly, having confidered ?he re-port of the Committee, concerning the Para-phrafe 0/ the Pfalmes fent from England: Andfinding that it is very neceflary, that the faid Pa-raphrase be yet revifed •, Therefore doth appointMafter John Adamfon to examine the firft fourtyPialmes, Mafter Tboma* Craufurd the feconci fourty, Mafter JohnJtorv the third fourty ,and Mafter John Ne-vey the laft thirty Pialmsof that Paraphrafe ; and in their Examination-they fhall not onlyobferve what they think needs to bee amended, but alfo to fetdowne their own eflay for correcting thereof* And for thispurpofe recommends
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