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478 justest and most satisfying reasons, in discharge of that high trust devolved upon them in their Episcopal character: and to promote, as far as they can, the peace and prosperity of that portion of the Christian Church committed to their charge.

"For obtaining of this desirable end, they therefore appoint their Clergy to make public notification to their congregations upon the 18th day of May next, that upon the following Lord's day, nominal Prayers for the King are to be authoritatively introduced, and afterwards to continue in the religious assemblies of this Episcopal Church: and they beg leave to recommend, as to their Clergy, whose obedience they expect, so likewise to all good Christian people, under their Episcopal care, and do earnestly intreat and exhort them, in the bowels of Jesus Christ, that they will all cordially receive this determination of their Spiritual Fathers."

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 * Robert Kilgour, Bishop and Primus.
 * John Skinner, Bishop of Aberdeen.
 * Andrew Macfarlane, Bishop of Ross and Moray.
 * William Abernethy Drummond, Bishop of Edinburgh.
 * John Strachan, Bishop of Brechin.

At this time, therefore, the Church of Scotland ceased to be a Nonjuring Church. It is a remarkable circumstance, that the Pretender should have died just one hundred years after the Revolution; and that the Nonjuring schism should have lasted just a century.