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Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
… of the family, and in the performance of the duties of the Sabbath by all the members thereof. 3. Let persons to be … publick repentance. 7. It will be a good remedie against Sabbath-breaking by carriers and travellers, that the … diligence, and zeal. 12. For better keeping of the Sabbath, let every elder take notice of such as are within …
Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
… collection at the kirk doors for that use one Sabbath in the year; and to that effect, that a certain Sabbath yearly be appointed and designed, whereupon that … be gathered, intimation being made by the minister the Sabbath before to prepare for such a collection, and the …
Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
… censure the contraveners." 4. Against Profanation of the Sabbath. "That it be recommended to Kirk-Sessions and … the Lord's Day is gone; and, in many places, the Sabbath hath been and is shamefully profanced. The land also … to read this present act publicly from the pulpit, a Sabbath or two before the said day of humiliation; and that …
Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
… in this nation, in profane and idle swearing, cursing, Sabbath-breaking, neglect and contempt of Gospel ordinances, … places to which they are to be sent against the first Sabbath of June next, where they are to continue for the …
Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
… the said minister and the parish he belongs to, the next Sabbath, in the ordinary way, to appear before the said … be allotted unto, so as to be there against the first Sabbath of March next, and to stay there three months, … and to stay the same length of time, against the first Sabbath of June next, and that these of them who have not …
Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
… 1694, against profaneness, and that upon the first Sabbath of May. VIII. Sess. 6, January 8, 1697, post … abounding scandals of profane and idle swearing, cursing, Sabbath-breaking, profane withdrawing from and contempt of … vacancies there, and that they be there against the first Sabbath of March next, viz., from the Synod of Merse and …
Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
… as shall be by them appointed be there against the first Sabbath of March next, viz., the Presbyteries of Chirnside, …
Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
… all ministers to intimate this publicly from the pulpit a Sabbath or two before the said day of humiliation. And, … God about their soul's state, and in preparation for the Sabbath, which will yield more delight than all sensual …
Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
… of uncleanness of all sorts, drunkenes, swearing, Sabbath-breaking, and unrighteous dealing among men, and that …
Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
… 6.Of proceeding with Drunkards, Swearers, Profaners of the Sabbath, and such like Scandalous Persons. 1. The members of … either drunkenness, swearing, cursing, or profaning of the Sabbath, may be clothed with such aggravating circumstances, … the pulpit, immediately after the forenoon sermon on the Sabbath, ten days preceding the day for the visitation, …