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The Substance of a Council Held at Lancaster - 18

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regulate all future Elections; and that all Elections shall be null and void, if previous Instructions laid down by the said Committees are not adher'd to.

5thly. Resolved, n, c, That whatever member of any of our Congregations shall vote contrary to his Minister, shall be excommunicated from all Privileges in the Kirk, especially the Sacraments; and be deem'd as one cut off from the Communion of the Faithful, and given over to Satan to be be buffetted.

6thly. Resolved, n, c, That some part of the Money collected in England and Ireland by Mr. Beaty,) in order to redeem Presbyterian Ministers taken captive by the Indians, and to purchase from them the Scalps of others who died gloriously fighting for their Country, as well as the many thousand Prisoners taken during this War upon the Frontiers from Georgia  to Canada be applied as a Fund to keep in Pay one thousand Voluntiers chosen Men from our Congregations, who shall al-

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