The ... for abolishing the pape.
(The Acts 1560 recited.)
And becaus that lawis quhilk ar not cleir are often tymes occasioun
of discord, We maist humilie desire that, for avoyding all debait,
dout, and question that eyther may aryiss for the validitie and
strenth of that parliament, as for the interpretatioun of the saids
... present parliament pronounce and declare first,
First Article.
That the ministeris of the blessit evangill of Jesus Chryst, quh ...
God of his mercy hes now rasit vp amangis ws, or heirefter sall ...
aggreing with thame that now leif in doctrine and administratioun
of the sacramentis, and that part of the people of this realme that
professis Jesus Chryst, as now he is offerit in his evangell, and
do commvnicat with his holie sacramentis (as in our reformit kirkis
thai are publictlie ministrat) may be declarit the only trew Kirk of
Jesus Chryst within this realme; And that all and sindrie quha outher
gaynsay the word of the evangell, as it is now preachit, and of ws
ressauit and approvit as the heids of the Confessioun of our Fayth
mair particularlie do express, or that ʒit refuses the participatioun
of the halie sacramentis as now thai are ministrat, Be decernit na
memberis of the kirk, within this realme, sa lang as thai keip thame
selfis so dividit from the societie of Chrystis body.
2. Farther, we craiff, that na personis reclaimyng to the religioun,
or that do not profess it with ws in all pointis, be permittit
to enioy benefice or proffitt quhatsumevir vnder the title of
ecclesiastical functioun, Notwithstanding title, possession or
intrusioun quhatsumeuer thai haue had or may claime to haue, be the
paip, that remane antichrist.