ewise the censure of Excommunication or
calling out of the Kirk flagitious or contumacious offenders, both the one
censure and the other is warranteble by and grounded upon the Word of God,
and is necessary (in respect of divine institution) to be in the Kirk. 5.
That as the Rights, Power, and Authority of the Civill Magistrate are to
bee maintained according to the Word of God, and the Confessions of the
Faith of the Reformed Kirks; So it is no lesse true and certaine, that
Jesus Christ, the onely Head and onely King of the Kirk, hath instituted
and appointed a Kirk Government distinct from the Civill Government or
Magistracie. 6: That the Ecclesiastical Government is committed and
intrusted by Christ to the Assemblies of the Kirk, made up of the
Ministers of the Word and Ruling Elders. 7. That the lesser and inferiour
Ecclesiasticall Assemblies, ought to bee subordinate and subject unto the
greater and superiour Assemblies. 8. That notwithstanding hereof, the
Civill Magistrate may and ought to suppresse by corporall or Civill
punishments, such as by spreading Errour or Heresie, or by fomenting
Schisme greatly dishonour God, dangerously hurt Religeon and disturbe the
Peace of the Kirk. Which Heads of Doctrine (howsoever opposed by the
authors and fomenters of the foresaid errours respectively) the Generall
Assembly doth firmely beleeve, own, maintaine, and commend unto others, as
Solide, True, Orthodoxe, grounded upon the Word of God, consonant to the
judgement both of the ancient and the best Reformed Kirk; And because this
Assembly (through the multitude of other necessary and pressing
bussinesse) cannot now have so much leisure, as to examine and consider
particularly the foresaid CXI. Propositions; Therefore, a more particular
examination thereof is committed and referred to the Theologicall
faculties in the four Universities of this Kingdome, and the judgement of
each of these faculties concerning the same, is appointed to bee reported
to the next Generall Assembly. In the meane while, these Propositions
shall bee Printed, both that Copies thereof may bee sent to Presbyteries,
and that it may be free for any that pleaseth to peruse them, and to make
known or send their judgement concerning the same to the said next
Assembly.

_Desires and Overtures presented from Presbyteries and Synods, with the
Assemblies answer thereunto._

It is humbly presented to the Assembly, that the children of many of the
ordinary