Note 2 — SIGNING OF THE NATIONAL COVENANT IN GREYFRIARS CHURCHYARD 28th February 1638

By the five articles of Perth—

(1) Kneeling at the Lord’s Supper was approved;

(2) Ministers were to dispense that sacrament in private houses, to those suffering from infirmity or from long or deadly sickness;

(3) Ministers were to baptise children in private houses in cases of great need;

(4) Ministers were, under pain of the bishop’s censure, to catechise all children of eight years of age, and the children were to be presented to the bishop for his blessing;

(5) Ministers were ordered to commemorate Christ’s birth, passion, resurrection, ascension, and the sending down of the Holy Ghost.