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FIRST "PARLIAMENT. XV. of "December. 1567. 183 • 4. zs. In fameikle, that albeit finneremaine and continuallie abyde , in thir our mortall bodies , zit it is rot im- puted unto us , bot is remitted , and covered with Chrifts Juftice. Secundly , in the generall Judgement , Kom 7 . & there fallbe given to every man and woman refurreftion of the flem. For the Sea fall give her dead ■ the Earth »g*- $■?' they that therein be inclofed, zea the Eternal! our God fall fhetche out his hand on the duft; and the deade «/ ^ * fall arife uncorruptible , and that in the fubftance of the felte fame flem that every man now beiris , to receive $ti)' according to their warkes, glory, or puniihment. For fik as now delyte in vanity , cruelty , filthynes , mI" z .„. fuperftition , or Idolatry , fall be adjudged to the fire unquencheable. In quhilk they fall be tormented for a p° ' <• J «* ever, alfweill in their awin bodyes , as in their faules , quhilk now they give to ferve the Devill in all abho- mination. Bot fik as continew in weill doing to the end , bauldely profefling the Lord Jefus : we conftantly Rom 1 6> beleeve, that they fall receive glorie , honour, and immortality , to reigne for ever in life everlafting, with 7^.5.10. Chrift Jefus, to whofe glorified body all his Eleft, fall be made lyke , when he fall appeir againe in Judge- ,c£i*.'. rr.ent, and fall rander up the Kingdome to God his Father , who then fall bee , and ever fall remaine all in 24 ' 28 ' all things God bleffed for ever. To whome with the Sonne , and with the haly Ghaift , be all .honour and glorie , now and ever. So be it. Arife (0 Lord) and let thy enimies be confounded , let them flee from thy pre fence, that hate tfiy ^Tjfj'* godlie Name. Give thy fervands flrength , to fpeake thy word in bauldnejfe , and let aU Nations Aft. < cleave to thy trew knowledge. t^Amen. 8 Thir A&s and Articklesar red in the face of Parliament, and ratifyed be the three Eftait.is , At£V##~ ^r^theij.dayofAuguft, thezeirofGod 15-60. zeiris. f. x^Anent the CWeJ/e abolijhed, and pumjhing of all that hearts orfayls thefamin. ITEM, Our Soveraine Lord , with advife of his deareft Regent , and the three Eftairs of rhis prefent Par- liament ratifyis and apprevies the Act under written , maid in the Parliament halden at Edinburgh ,'the 1. 3 . dayofAuguft, thezeir 15-60. zeires. And of new in this prefent Parliament ftatuts and ordainis , the faid Act to be as an perpetual 1 Law , to all our Soveraine Lords lieges in all times to cum; Of the quhilk , the tenourfollowes. The quhilk day, f or-fameiJkle as almichty God be his maift trew and bleffed word , hcs declared the reverence , and honour quhilk fuld be given unto him. And be his Sonne JESUS CHRIST hes declared the trew ufe of the Sacraments , willing the fame to be ufed, according to his will and word. Be quhilk it is notour , and perfkelie knawen , that the Sacramentes of Baptifme , and of the Bodie and Bloud of JESUS CHRIST, hes bene in all times by-paft corrupted , be the Papifticall Kirk , and be their ufurped Minifters. And prefentlie , notwithftanding the reform atioun alreadie made , according to Gods word : Zit there is fum of the faid Papifl Kirk , that flubburnely prefevens in their wicked Idolatrie, fayand Meffe , and Baptizand , coniorme to the Papift Kirk , prophanand therethrow the Sacraments foir- faides, in quiet and fecreete places, therethrow nouther regaidand God, nor his word. THERE- FOIRE, Itisftatute and ordained in this prefent Parliament , that na maner of perfoun ; or perfbnnis, inonictimecumming, adminiftrat ony of the Sacraments fokfaids, fecretly , or ony urher maner of way, but they that are admitted , and havand power to that ei f eft. And that na maner of perfoun nor perfounis , fayMefle, nor zit hear Meffe , nor be prefent theirat , under the paine of confifcatioun of all their gudis movabill , and unmovabill , and punifhing of their bedyes at the difcretioun of the Magiftrat , within quhais Jurifdi&iqun fik perfonnis happinnis to be apprehended , for the firfl fault. Banifhment of the Realme , for the fe:ond fault : And Juftrfying to the death, tor rhe thrid fault. And ordainis all Schireffes , Stewards, Bailhes , and their deputes , Proveftes , and Baillies 01 Burrowes , and uthers Judges quhatfumever , within this Realme, topake diligent fute and inquifitiouh , within their bounds , quhair ony fik ufurped Minifterie is ufed, Meffe faying, or they that beis prefent at the doing thereof , rati >y and, and approovand the famin. take and apprehend them , to the effect , that the paines above written may be execute upon them. And therefore of new decernis , and ordaines the contraveneris of the famin , in ony tyme heirafter , to be punifhed according to the paines of the aforefaid Afte above rehearfed. 6. _Anent the trew and haly Kirk , and of them thai ar declared not to be of the famin. ITEM, Forfameikle as the Minifters oftheblefled Evangell of JESUS CHRIST whom God of his mercie hes now raifed up amangft us , or heirafter fall rayfe, agreeing with them that now livis, in do- ctrine and adminiftratioun of the Sacraments , and the peopill of this Realme , that ptofeflis CHRIST, as he now is offered in his Evangell , and do communicat with the haly Sacraments (as in die reformed Kirkes of this Realme they are publicklie adminiftrat) according to the Confeffioun of the Faith : Our Soveraine Lord, with advife of my Lord Regent, and three Eftaitis" of this p'refent Parliament, hes de- clared, anddeclaris, the forefaid perfones , to be the oncly true and halie Kirk of JESUS CHRIST within this Realme. And decernis and declaris , that all and fi ndrie , quha outlier gainfay is die word of die Evangell , received and approoved , as the heades of the Confeffioun of Faith profefled in Parliament of before , in the zeir of God 1 5- 60. zeires , as alfo fpecified in die A&es of this Parliament itiair particularlie E « % dois