In the Assembly 1591. Sess. 4. The former act anent the subscription to
the book of _Policie_ is renewed, and a penaltie imposed upon the
Moderatour, in case it be not put in execution.

In the Assembly _22. May 1592._ Sess. 2. These articles were drawn up.
_That the acts of Parliament made 1584. against the Discipline, libertie
and authoritie of the Kirk be annulled, and the samine discipline, whereof
the Kirk hath been in practise, precisely ratified. That Abbots, Priors,
and other Prelats pretending the title of the Kirk, be not suffered in
time coming._ In the 11. Session the number of the Presbyteries were given
up, and insert in the Parliament immediatly following. The fifth of _June_
1592. The libertie, discipline, and jurisdiction of the true Kirk, in her
Sessions, Presbyteries, Synodal and general Assemblies, is largely
ratified, as the samine was used, and exercised within this Realme, and
all the acts contrary thereto abrogat: The Kings prerogative declared not
to be prejudicial to the same priviledges grounded upon the word of God,
the former commissions to Bishops 1584. rescinded, and all Ecclesiastical
matters, subjected to Presbyteries, according to the discipline of this
Kirk. _Anno_ 1595. The book of Policie with other acts is ratified and
ordained to be printed.

It was also cleared that Episcopacie was condemned in these words of the
Confession, HIS WICKED HEIRARCHIE. For the Popish _Hierarchie_ doth
consist of Bishops, Presbyters, and Deacons, that is baptizing and
preaching Deacons: For so it is determined in the councel of _Trent_, in
the 4. chap. _De Sacramento ordinis, can. 6_.

(M1) _Si quis dixerit in ecclesia Catholica non esse heirarchiam divina
ordinatione institutam, quae constat ex Episcopis. Presbyteris & ministris,
anathema sit._ _Bellarmine_ likewise in his book _De Clericis._ _cap._ 11.
saith, _That there are three Hierarchies in the militant Kirk: The first
of Bishops, the second of Priests, the third of Deacons, and that the
Deacons are also Princes, if they be compared with the people:_ This
proposition following; _Hierarchia ecclesiastica constat ex Pontifice,
Cardinalibus, Archiepiscopis, Episcopis & Regularibus_, was censured by
the Facultie of Theologie in the Universitie at _Paris_, as followeth,
_Inicta prima propositione enumeratio membrorum hierarchiae ecclesiasticae
sen sacri principatus, divina ordinatione instituti est manca & redundaus
atque, inducens in errorem cont