t from the session, they are to
proceed to the triall of the person thus Elected, And finding him
qualified, to admit him to the Ministry in the said Congregation.

3. But if it happen that the Major part of the Congregation dissent from
the person agreed upon by the Session, In that case the matter shall be
brought unto the Presbyterie, who shall Judge of the same; And if they doe
not find their Dissent to be grounded on Causlesse prejudices, they are to
appoynt a new Election in manner above specified.

4. But if a lesser party of the Session or Congregation shew their dissent
from the Election without exceptions relevant and verified to the
Presbyterie, Notwithstanding thereof the Presbyterie shall go on to the
trials and ordination of the person elected; Yet all possible diligence
and tendernesse must be used to bring all parties to an harmonious
agreement.

5. It is to be understood that no person under the Censure of the Kirk
because of any scandalous offence is to be admitted to have hand in the
election of a Minister.

6. Where the Congregation is disaffected and Malignant, in that case the
Presbyterie is to provide them with a Minister.

_6. August, 1649. Antemeridiem,_ Sess. Ult.

_A Brotherly Exhortation from the General Assembly of the Church of_
Scotland, _to their Brethren in_ England.

The many and great obligations which lie upon us in reference to our
Brethren in _England_, who hold fast their integrity, and adhere to the
Solemn League and Covenant, together with the desire which we have to
rectifie our Sympathie with them in their afflictions, and to preserve so
far as in us lieth that fellowship and correspondence that hath been
entertained betwixt the Church of _Scotland_ and _England_ these years
past, do call upon us and constrain us not to be silent in this day of
their trouble and distress.

Albeit the Lord (who hath his fire in Zion, and his furnace in Ierusalem)
hath now for a long time past, afflicted these Kingdoms with many & sharp
rods, and that his wrath seems not yet to be turned away, but his hand
stretched out still; yet in all this, it becomes us who live in these
lands to stop our mouthes, neither can any impute iniquity to the most
High.

It is rather a wonder, that any mercy should be continued, and that
_England_ and _Scotland_ are not cut off from being Nations, seeing the
back-slidings and provocations of both has been so many and so grosse,
Although the So