ommunione inter Reformatarum Ecclesiarum
Synodos per Legatos & Literas concilianda redivivi possit ratio, per quam
Ecclesiae hostes compescantur, haereses opprimantur, & schismata
retarciantur, pax cum Deo & inter Ecclesias firma conservetur, & gloriosum
Dei opus in Evangelio per orbem terrarum propagando, & Antichristi regno
abolendo promoveatur. Quod ut optandum, & sperandum, piis & prudentibus
vestris meditationibus, ut bonnum semen faecundissimo solo commendamus._

_Edinburgi._ 4 Junii 1644.

Vestrae Dignitati & Fraternitati addictissimi, Pastores & Seniores
Nationalis Synodi Scoticanae, &c. nostro omnium nomine ac mandato.

DIRECT.

_Ecclesiis Dei, qua sunt in unitis Hollandiae, Zelandiae, aliisque foederati_
Belgii _Provinciis._

_Ordinance concerning Bursars._

The Assembly understanding that the Overture for maintaining Bursars, in
the Assembly holden in the year 1641. upon the 7. of August, Sess. 15 is
never yet put in practice: Do therefore Ordain Presbyteries to put the
same in practice with all diligence, and to make account thereof to the
next Assembly.

_Ordinance for up lifting and imploying Penalties contained in Acts of
Parliament, upon pious uses._

The Assembly understanding that the executing of some laudable Acts of
Parliament, made against Non-Communicants and Excommunicate persons, and
of divers other Acts containing pecuniall pains for restraining of Vice,
and advancing Piety, is much neglected by the slownesse of Presbyteries
and Ministers, in seeking Execution thereof: Therefore ordains
Presbyteries and Ministers _respective_, to be diligent hereafter by all
means, in prosecuting full and exact Execution of all such Acts of
Parliament, for lifting the saids Penalties contained in the same, and for
faithfull imployment thereof, upon pious uses, and that every Presbyterie
report their diligence herein yearly to Generall Assemblies.

_An Overture concerning Promises of Marriage made by Minors, to those with
whom they have committed Fornication._

Forsameikle as it is found by experience, that some young men being put to
Colledges by their wel-affected Parents, that they may be instructed in
the knowledge of Arts and Sciences, to the intent they may bee more able
for publick Imployments in the Ecclesiastick and Civill state, that the
said Children hes committed Fornication. And the Woman and her friends hes
seduced the foresaid Schollers being Minors, to make promise of