APPENDIX.*

I. FROM OF A TESTIMONIAL FOR CHURCH MEMBERS ON LEAVING A CONGREGATION.

THAT A. B. is in full communion with the Asso

WE, the elders and other members of the Associate Congregation of in the state of —, in full communion, who have acceded to the Lord's cause, as professed and maintained by the Associate Presbytery of —, as subordinate to the Associate Synod of North America: taking into our serious consideration the great loss we suffer through the want of a fixed gospel ministry among us, and being fully satisfied, from opportunities of enjoying your public ministrations, that the great Head of the church has bestowed upon you, Mr. A. B., such ministerial gifts and endowments, as, through the

*The following forms have been added to the Act and Testimony partly with the view of filling up a few blank leaves, but chiefly with the hope they may prove serviceable in places where the Book of Discipline-from which they have, with the exception of the last three, been selected-cannot be obtained.-W. S. Y.

divine blessing, may be profitable for our edification: we therefore, hereby call and beseech you, to come to us and help us, by taking the charge and oversight of this congregation, to labor in it, and watch over it, as our fixed pastor: and on your acceptance of this our call, we promise you all due support, respect, encouragement, and obedience in the Lord.

In testimony whereof, we have subscribed this our call, this in the year of our Lord 18-, before these witnesses.

day of

Attest.

C. D.
E. F. S

III. ATTESTATION OF A CALL.

THAT, agreeably to presbyterial appointment, I preached on the

day of, in the congregation of —, under the inspection of the Associate Presbytery of -, in the state of and presided in the moderation of a call for a pastor to said congregation, which was made out for Mr. A. B., under the inspection of the Presbytery of is certified at, this day of A. D. 18-, by

IV. FORM OF AN ACT OF LICENSURE.

C. D.

THE Associate Prebytery of in the state of having taken Mr. A. B., student of divinity, on trials for license, and he having acquitted himself to their satisfaction, in all the parts of his trials, did at their meeting, on the day of at —————, in and hereby do,

the county of

and state of

in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, allow and

appoint him, the said A. B., to preach the gospel of peace within their bounds, and in all other places where in Providence he may be called.

of

county of

A. D. 18-.

and state of

V. CERTIFICATE OF ORDINATION.

THE Associate Presbytery of, in the state having had a call from the congregation of county of, and state of to Mr. A. B., preacher of the gospel, presented to them, which they sustained, and which he accepted, took him on trials for ordination, and having judged him duly qualified for the office of the gospel ministry, and in particular for the pastoral charge of said congregation; and being presbyterially met at their ordinary place of public worship, on the day of, did then and there solemnly set apart said Mr. A. B., in the face of the whole congregation there present, to the office of the holy ministry in said congregation, and did afterwards receive him into ministerial fellowship.

VI. FORM OF TRANSFER, IN CASE OF A CALL FROM ONE PRESBYTERY TO ANOTHER.

of

THE Associate Presbytery of in the state having received from the Presbytery of

under

in the state of a call for Mr. A. B., to the pastoral charge of the congregation at the inspection of the Presbytery aforesaid, and said call being by them approved, and by him accepted; they did and hereby do, transfer and remit him to the Presbytery of for ordination (or admission) to the pastoral charge of said congregation. By order of Presbytery.

By order of the Associate Session (or Presbytery) of -, you, Mr. A. B., member of, elder or

deacon in, or minister at

appear before said

herewith presented, at

are summoned to

and answer to the libel

on the

day of

VIII.

FORM OF EXCOMMUNICATION.

THE Associate Session (Presbytery or Synod, as the case may require) of -, in the name, and by the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ, King and Head of the church, does hereby excommunicate you, casting you out of the communion of the visible church, declaring you to be one of those whom our Lord has commanded to be held by the faithful as heathen men and publicans.