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authority_n	bishop_n	church_n	jurisdiction_n	5,357	5	9.3309	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61586	Proposals tender'd to the consideration of both Houses of Parliament for uniting the Protestant interest for the present, and preventing divisions for the future together with the declaration of K. Charles II, concerning ecclesiastical affairs, and some proposals of terms of union between the Church of England and dissenters / long since published by the Reverend Dean of S. Pauls.	Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.; Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II). Declaration to all his loving subjects of his kingdom of England and dominion of Wales concerning ecclesiastical affairs.	1689 (1689)	Wing S5621; ESTC R8098	25,861	37

for such faults as they think not at all worthy of so great a Censure We declare it but a just Thing that every Minister be first satisfied in the Cause or else be exempted from the Execution of that Charge and that the Bishop or his Court provide some other person that is satisfied about it to do it And to the intent that a free search after Truth may not be discouraged in the pursuit of Concord and many other Scruples avoided upon that Account We declare that though an Authentick Interpretation be required as to the Substance of all Laws yet in the Articles of the Church which are Theses for Agreement and not Laws and the Homilies a Doctrinal Interpretation shall be held sufficient for an Assent or Subscription to them And because the very Superintendency of Bishops and that Subjection to them which is required by the Constitution of the Realm is or may be an hindrance to many sober Ministers and other Protestants of coming into the Church who are ready to consent to the Doctrine but not to the Discipline or Government of it We do declare That so long as any Person or Party do acknowledge the King's Supremacy as Head of the Church in this Nation and obey their Ordinary or the Bishops in Licitis Honestis upon the account of his Authority committed to them for the Exercise of that External Regiment Circa Sacra which is granted by all our Divines to the Higher Powers in every Nation it is enough for the owning Episcopal Iurisdiction so far as they do own it in the Declaration of Assent and Consent or in any other part of Conformity and shall serve them to all intents and purposes in Law no lets than a professed belief and acknowledgment of the immediate Divine Right of it Be it therefore Enacted by this present Parliament That if any Person be willing to Conform to the present Establishment of the Church of England and her Service appointed according to these Explanations Alleviations Declarations Lenitives or Cautions he shall be admitted to any Ecclesiastical preferment and enjoy the use of his Ministry without any molestation All Statutes Canons or Laws to the contrary notwithstanding And for the making this Act of better Signification to the Concerned and the prevention of that Scandal which is raised on the Clergy through the Covetousness of some in heaping up to themselves all the Preferments they can get when others have scarce Subsistence for their Families and the Souls of many People are thereby neglected Be it farther Enacted that no Clergy-men for the three next years ensuing be suffered to enjoy any more than one Living or Cure of Souls and one Dignity or other Ecclesiastical Preferment at one time and that every Man without Exception that hath more than One of Either shall immediately give up the Rest to be distributed among those who shall be brought off from their Non-conformity upon the Terms of this Act into the Established Order Which that they may also be obtained and possessed with a clean Conscience and that grievous Curruption of Simony may be Extirpate out of the Land Be it Enacted moreover that every Patron that shall hence forward present his Clerk to any Living shall have the Oath called The Simonical Oath imposed on him no less than on the Incumbent And if he refuses to take it that then the Bishop shall have immediate Power taking only the same Oath of Presentation in his Room And forasmuch as there are some Ministers of a good Life that cannot according to their Judgments allow of our Parochial Churches nor a Book of Liturgy But do choose to Worship God and Jesus Christ in the way of their gathered or separate Congregations and crave the Protection and Clemency of the King upon their Allegiance as other Subjects Be it finally Enacted for the happiness and quiet of the Realm and the Reduction of these Men by other means than those which have hitherto proved unsuccessful That every Christian Subject throughout the Land that profess the Reformed Religion and be not Convict of Popery be Pardoned all Faults and Penalties incurred upon the account of any Fore-passed Non-conformity and that they shall not during these Seven Years next ensuing be Prosecuted upon any Penal Law for their Consciences in the matter of Religion They carrying themselves Innocently and Peaceably with submission to the Civil and without disturbance to the Ecclesiastical Government now settled in the Nation All Statutes to the contrary notwithstanding In Short A Repeal of our Laws about Conformity unto the 13 th of Elizabeth Or a New Act of Uniformity Or The King's Declaration concerning Ecclesiastical Affairs at his first coming in turn'd into a Law were Comprehension His latter Declaration to all his Loving Subjects some few things in both yet a little considered made so were Indulgence A Bill of Comprehension with Indulgence both together will do our Business An Addition or Clause in it against Pluralities will do it with Supererogation Deo Gloria Hooker's Preface to his Ecclesiastical Polity printed anno 1676. p. 44 45. Hooker's Preface to his Ecclesiastical Polity p. 44. Dr. Stillingfleet's Irenicu● p. 122.123 Preface to the Common-Prayer Dr. Tillotson's Sermon Preached at the Yorkshire-Feast An. 1679. p. 28. Dr. Sherlock's Sermon Preached before the Lord Mayor Nov. 1688. Co. Inst. 4. Part. 323 324