yes, kneeling at the Communion, Confirmation, Administration
of the Sacraments in private places, which are brought in by a null
Assembly and are contrary to the Confession of Faith, as it was meant and
subscribed _Anno_ 1580, and divers times since and to the order and
constitutions of this Kirk. Thirdly, the changing of the government of the
Kirk, from the Assemblies of the Kirk to the persons of some Kirkmen,
usurping prioritie and power over their Brethren by the way, and under the
name of Episcopall government against the Confession of Faith, 1580
against the order set downe in the Book of Policy, and against the
intention & constitution of this Kirk from the beginning. Fourthly the
Civill places and power of Kirkmen, their sitting in Session, Councell and
Exchequer, their Riding, Sitting, and voting in Parliament, and their
sitting in the Bench as Justices of peace, which according to the
constitutions of this Kirk are incompatible with their spiritual function,
lifting them up above their Brethren in worldly pomp, and do tend to the
hinderance of the Ministrie. Fiftly the keeping and authorizing corrupt
Assemblies at _Linlithgow_, 1606. and 1608. At _Glasgow_, 1610. At
_Aberdene_, 1616. At S. _Andrews_, 1617. At _Perth_, 1618. which ar null
and unlawful, as being called and constitute quite contrary to the order
and constitutions of this Kirk received and practised ever since the
reformation of Religion, and withal laboring to introduce novations into
this Kirk, against the order and religion established. A sixth cause is
the want of lawful & free General Assemblies, rightly constitute of
Pastors, Doctors, and Elders yearly, or oftner _pro re nata_, according to
the libertie of this Kirk, expressed in the Book of Policy: and
acknowledged in the Act of Parliament, 1592. After which the whole
Assembly in one heart and voyce did declare, that these and such other,
proceeding from the neglect and breach of the Nationall Covenant of this
Kirk and Kingdome, made in _Anno_ 1580. have been indeed the true and
maine causes of all our evills and distractions. And therefore ordain,
according to the constitutions of the Generall Assemblies of this Kirk:
And upon the grounds _respective_ above-specified, That the foresaid
Service-Book, Books of Cannons, and Ordinaination, and the high
Commission, be still rejected: that the Articles of _Perth_, be no more
practised: That Episcopall Government, and the Civill places and power of