with all that Your Majesty enjoynes, for the Real
Advantage of true Piety, and the Peace or all Your Kingdoms. Heartily
wishing, that God, who hath Graciously brought back Your Majesties Person,
in Safety, from Your Late, no less Generous, than Dangerous Expedition,
for his Cause and Truth, with joyfull Success; May still preserve Your
Majesty, and Our most Gracious Queen; Granting You long Life, Health, and
Prosperity, And may Establish Your Throne, and Bless Your Government, to
the Glory of His Great Name, the Good of all his Churches, and the welfare
of all Your People. Which shall ever be the earnest Prayer of,

_May it please Your Majesty,_
_ Your Majesties most Faithful,_
_ most Obedient and most Humble Subjects._

Signed in our Presence, in our Name,
and at our Appointment, _By_
_ HU. KENNEDIE_ Moderator.

IV. _Appointment of a Diet, to be kept by the Assembly for Prayer._

The General Assembly Appoints _Monday_ next, betwixt Eight and Twelve a
Clock in the Forenoon, to be set a part for Prayer, by the Members of this
Assembly: And Recommends to all the Members, to meet in the Assembly-House
for that end, at Eight a Clock in the Morning.

Edinburgh _25th._ October 1690. _Ante Meridiem._ Sess. 9.

V. _The proceedings of the Assembly, anent Mr._ Thomas Lining _and
Others._

The General Assembly, having received a Report, from the Committee of
Overtures, anent two Papers given in to the said Committee, and Subscribed
by Mr. _Thomas Lining_, Mr. _Alexander Shields_ and Mr. _William Boyd_,
who had followed some Courses contrary to the Order of this Church;
whereby, "The said Committee out of their ardent Desire of Union in the
Church, Recommend to the Assembly, the Reading of the Shorter of these two
Papers: In which the fore-named Persons Oblige themselves after the
exhibiting of the larger Paper (which they offer, as they profess, for the
Exoneration of their Consciences) and laying it down at the Assemblies
feet, to be Disposed upon as the Assembly should think fit: That they
shall in all required Submission, subject Themselves, their Lives and
Doctrine, to the Cognizance of the Respective Judicatories of this Church,
and equally to Oppose Schism and Defection, in any Capacity, that they
should be capable of. But the said Committee, Judgeth, the Reading of the
larger of the saids two Papers, in full Assembly, to be Inconvenient: In
regard, That though there be several good Things in it, ye