. 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 . of erronious Soo^f or Tapers. : He Generall Affembly confidering how theer-rours of Independency and Separation ( have inour Neighbour Kingdomeof England) fpreadas a Gangra?n, and do daily eat as a Canker• Info much that exceeding many Errours, Hereiies,Schifmes, and Blafpemies, have iflued there-from , and are fheltered thereby 5 And how poflible it is, for thefame evils, to invade, and overfpread this Kirk and Kingdome,(lying within the fame Ifl
. 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 . of erronious Soo^f or Tapers. : He Generall Affembly confidering how theer-rours of Independency and Separation ( have inour Neighbour Kingdomeof England) fpreadas a Gangra?n, and do daily eat as a Canker• Info much that exceeding many Errours, Hereiies,Schifmes, and Blafpemies, have iflued there-from , and are fheltered thereby 5 And how poflible it is, for thefame evils, to invade, and overfpread this Kirk and Kingdome,(lying within the fame Ifland ) by the fpreading of their erro-nious Books, Pamphlets, Lybels, and Letters, andbyconver-ling with them that are infected with thefc errours, except thefame beetimeoufly prevented^ Doe therefore, In the Name ofGod , Inhibit and Difcharge all Members of this Kirk and King-dome, to converfe with Perfons tainted with fuch errours • Or toimport, fell, fpread, vent, or difperfe fuch erronious Books orPapers: But that they beware of, and abftain from Books main-taining Independencie or Separation , and from all Anttnomiari, AnabaptifHcall,. The Cjcncratt AJfembly, \6^.y. 23 An3b*pti(ricall , and other erronious Books and Papers; Re-quiring all Minifters to warne their flocks againft fuch Bookes ingenerall, and particularly fuch as are mod: pliufiblc, inilnuating,and dangerous : And to try carefully from time to time if anyfuch Bookesbec brought into this Countrey from BngUnd, orfrom beyond Seas (which is efpecially recommended to iMini-fters on Sea Coafts, or Towns where any Stationers are ) and ifany (hall bee found, to prefent the fame to the Presbyterie, thatfomecourfe may be taken to hinder the difpeifing thereof : Andhereby all Presbyteries, and Synods, are ordained to try and Pro-ceffeftich as (hall tranfgreTe againft the prcmifTes or any part ofthe fame. And the Allembly alio doth ferioufly. recommend toCivill Magiffrates, that they may be pleafed to be aififting to M
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