The people and "every several Congregation" have a right to elect their minister, and, if they do not do so in six weeks, the Superintendent (a migratory official, in some ways superior to the clergy, but subject to periodical "trial" by the Assembly, who very soon became extinct), with his council, presents a man who is to be examined by persons of sound judgment, and next by the ministers and elders of the Kirk.

Nobody is to be "violently intrused" on any congregation.

Nothing is said about an university training; moral character is closely scrutinised.

On the admission of a new minister, some other ministers should preach "touching the obedience which the Kirk owe to their ministers.

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