22 April, 1647.  
REMEDIES For removing some OBSTRUCTIONS IN Church-government.  
ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, That these Remedies for removing some Obstructions in Church-Government, be forthwith printed and published: H: elsing, clear. Parl. D. come.  
London, Printed for Edward Husband, Printer to the honourable House of Commons, April 30. 1647.   

REMEDIES FOR Removing some Obstructions in Church-Government.  
Resolved, &c.  
1. THat Letters from the Speakers of both Houses be sent into all counties( from whence no return hath been certified) That their respective Counties be divided into distinct Classes, and the same certified forthwith, with the Names of Ministers and others fit to be of each Classis, according to the Ordinance.  
2. That such returns from any of the Counties as are already made ▪ or shall hereafter be made, be referred to be considered of by the Committee of Lords and Commons for judging of Scandal; and that so soon as such returns shall be made, the Speakers of both Houses do sand the said returns to the said Committee accordingly; and that such being by them considered of & allowed, shall have power to act according to Ordinances of Parliament.  
3. That the several Classes constituted by Parliament, in the several Counties within the Limits of the said respective Classes, where no Congregational Presbyteries are already settled, shall have from time to time power to nominate such Ministers and others as are qualified according to the Ordinance, to join with them in the same, to be approved by the Committee of Lords & Commons appointed to judge of Scandal, until such time as Congregational Presbyteries shall be settled within the said respective Precincts: And when the said Congregational Presbyteries shall be settled within the said Limits, That then the said Congregational Presbyteries shall act according to the power and directions of the Ordinance in that behalf; And that such power shall be executed, not onely in cases of death, or other departure of any Minister or Elder from the place of their wonted dwelling, but also in case of increase of Ministers and Congregational Elderships in their several precincts.  
4. That at any such time as seven Congregational Elderships, or more, shall be constituted in any Classical precinct in any of the counties, by the respective Classes established by Parliament, the same shall by them be signified to the several Congregational Elderships so established; and the said Congregational Elderships shal forthwith proceed to deputy such of their Elders as are most fit, who together with their Ministers( according to the Ordinance of Parliament) shall meet as a Classis, and shall be, to all intents and purposes, thenceforth the Classis of that precinct, and execute all power belonging to such or any former Classis; and the Classis formerly constituted by Parliament, shall cease as to that precinct.  
5. That the Elders of the Classis of the Province of London, shall hold their Provincial Assembly in the Convocation-house at Pauls Church in London, upon the first Monday in May next ensuing, and may adjourn their meeting de die in diem, and conclude their meeting with Adjournment unto the next opportunity, according to the Ordinance of Parliament: And that no Act shall pass or be valid in the said Province of London, but what shall be done by the Number of Six and thirty present, or the mayor part of them, whereof Twelve to be Ministers, and Four and twenty to be Ruling-Elders; and that the first meeting of the Provincial Assemblies in the several counties, be appointed by the Committee of Lords and Commons aforesaid, and may adjourn as aforesaid; who are to appoint the number of which each Province shall consist ▪ and the Quorum that shall act in each Province.  
6. That in the Classical meeting of all Classes, that which shall be done by the mayor part present, shall be esteemed as the act of the whole Classical number; and the same to hold in the city of London in their meeting of triers, and in all their Classical meetings, and in the several counties; and that no act done by any Classis shall be valid and good, unless it be done by the number of fifteen present, or the mayor part of them, whereof five to be Ministers, and ten to be Ruling-Elders.  
FINIS.