ack_, Mr _Dongall Campbell, John Besrall, John Brown, William Brown,
Robert Brown_, and _William Russel_, Elders: Giving unto them full Power
and Commission, to do all and every thing for preservation of the
Established Doctrine, Discipline, Worship and Government of this Kirk,
against all who shall endeavour to introduce any thing contrary thereunto,
and for prosecuting, advancing, perfecting & bringing the said Work of
Uniformity in Religion in all His Majesties Dominions to a happy
conclusion, conform to the former Commissions granted by proceeding
Assemblies thereanent, And to that effect Appoints them, or any seventeen
of them, whereof thirteen shall be Ministers to meet here in this City to
morrow the 12. of this Moneth, And thereafter upon the last Wednesday of
_November, February_, and _May_ next, and upon any other day, and in any
other place they shall think fit. Renewing also to the persons before
named the power contained in the Act of the Assembly 1643. Intituled, A
_Reference to the Commission anent the Persons designed to repair to the
Kingdom of England._ And further, incase Delinquents have no constant
residence in any one Presbyterie, or if Presbyteries be negligent or
overawed, in these cases, The Assembly gives to the persons before named,
such power of censuring complyers and persons disaffected to the Covenant
according to the Acts of the Assembly, declaring alwayes and providing,
that Ministers shall not be deposed, but in one of the quarterly meetings
of this Commission, And further Authorises them as formerly with full
power to make Supplications, Remonstrances, Declarations & Warnings to
Indict Fasts & Thanksgivings as there shall be cause to Protest against
all encroachments upon the Liberties of the Kirk, and to censure all such
as interupt this Commission or any other Church Judicatory, or the
execution of their Censures or of any other Sentences or Acts, issuing
from them, And with full power to them to treat and determine in the
matters referred unto them by this Assembly, as fully and freely as if the
same were here fully expressed, and with as ample power as any Commission
of any former Generall Assemblies hath had or been in use of before:
Declaring also that all opposers of the authority of this Commission in
matters intrusted to them shall be holden as opposers of the authority of
the Generall Assembly, And this Commission in their whole proceedings are
comptable to, and censurable by th