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The General Assembly receive the Overtures from the Synod of North America, the Presbytery of the Western Isles (A), the Presbytery of Glasgow and Argyll, and the Kirk Sessions of Lochs and Knockbain, but do not grant their crave for the following reasons: The Plenary General Assembly was empowered …
Bearing in mind the unity of the Church and the several years’ discussion, debate and papers on the subject of worship, and taking into account the purposes of the Barrier Act of 1697 to ensure that no sudden alteration or innovation in either doctrine or worship be enacted without the more general …
The General Assembly direct that the following be added to Standing Orders as Standing Order II.8: That in regard to returns from Presbyteries to any Overture transmitted to them under the Barrier Act the total number of Presbyteries in the Church shall constitute the appropriate base for calculating a …
The Assembly approve of the Report of the Assembly Arrangements that no Overtures sent down under the Barrier Act shall be sent by the Clerks to Foreign Presbyteries for their consideration, except in cases where the General Assembly expressly remit them to Foreign Presbyteries. …
The General Assembly, taking into their consideration the Overture and Act made in the last Assembly concerning innovations, and having heard the report of the several commissioners from Presbyteries to whom the consideration of the same was recommended in order to its being more ripely advised and determined in …