ifting of pecunial paines
to bee imployed upon pious uses, may bee put to due execution within their
several bounds; And also that the Acts of Parliament against excommunicate
Persons, especially the twentieth Act of Parliament in March last, be also
carefully execute: And that they cause use all diligence to that effect,
and account hereof shall be required in Provinciall and Generall
Assemblies.

_Ult. August 1647. Antemeridiem._ Sess. 26.

_Act discharging the importing, venting or spreading of erronious Books or
Papers._

The General Assembly considering how the errours of Independency and
Separation (have in our Neighbour Kingdome of _England_) spread as a
Gangraen, and do daily eat as a Canker; In so much that exceeding many
Errours. Heresies, Schismes, and Blaspemies, have issued therefrom, and
sheltered thereby; And how possible it is, for the same evils to invade,
and overspread this Kirk and Kingdome, (lying within the same Island) by
the spreading of their erronious Books, Pamphlets, Lybels, and Letters,
and by conversing with them that are infected with these errours, except
the same bee timeously prevented; Doe therefore, in the Name of God,
Inhibit and Discharge all Members of this Kirk and Kingdome, to converse
with Persons tainted with such errours; Or to import, sell, spread, vent,
or disperse such erronious Books or Papers: But that they beware of, and
abstain from Books maintaineing Independencie or Separation, and from all
Antinomian, Anabaptisticall, and other erronious Books, and Papers;
Requiring all Ministers to warne their flocks against such Bookes in
generall, and particularly such as are most plausible, insinuating, and
dangerous: And to try carefully from time to time if any such Bookes be
brought into this Countrey from _England_, or from byond Seas (which is
especially recommended to Ministers on Sea Coasts, or Towns where any
Stationers are) and if any shall be found, to present the same to the
Presbyterie, that some course may be taken to hinder the dispersing
thereof: And hereby all Presbyteries, and Synods, are ordained to try and
Processe such as shall transgresse against the premisses or any part of
the same. And the Assembly also doth seriously recommend to Civill
Magistrates, that they may be pleased to be assisting to Ministers and
Presbyteries in execution of this Act, and to concurre with their
authority in every thing to that effect.

_Act for debarring of C