THE SCOTCH MINISTER'S ASSISTANT, OR A Collection OF FORM S, FOR Celebrating the Ordinances of MARRIAGE, BAPTISM, and the OF THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND, WITH SUITABLE DEVOTIONS FOR CHURCH AND FAMILY WORSHIP. Inverness: PRINTED, AND SOLD BY YOUNG AND IMRAY. SOLD ALSO BY F. & C. RIVINGTON, LONDON; A. GUTHRIE, EDIN- ADVERTISEMENT. THE Forms contained in the following collection, with a very few exceptions, were originally composed by the Author for his own use; and under the impression that they may be found calculated to assist the devotion of the well-disposed reader, and likewise to gratify the curiosity of those of a different communion, who may be desirous to know the religious forms of our church, they are now committed to the press. IT has often been complained of as a considerable disadvantage, that there are no Forms prescribed by the Church of Scotland for celebrating Marriage, Baptism and the Lord's Supper. Every Clergyman is left to exercise his own talents upon such occasions, with no other assistance than a few general instructions laid down in the Directory annexed to the Confession of Faith. As no attempt has hitherto been made by any Minister of the Church of Scotland to remedy this obvious inconvenience, the Author flatters himself that the following work, with all its imperfections, will be favourably received by his younger Brethren, for whose use subit is chiefly intended. And since every ject in Divinity has been so often discussed by a variety of able writers, it would be unreasonable to expect that all the sentiments or even all the expressions in this work, sho 11 be new and original. The candid reader wi ld be satisfied, if he shall find in this manual a selection of suitable matter arranged under proper heads. It is by no means intended to obtrude these Forms upon those who are able to compose |