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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	king_n	law_n	legal_a	2,470	5	10.2354	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76711	A Bill for uniting the Protestants.		1681 (1681)	Wing B2890B; ESTC R176533	7,719	10

A BILL for Vniting the Protestants WHereas there are many Jealousies risen about Popery which makes it even necessary to the Peace of the Nation that the Protestant Interest be united and strengthned by all good and lawful Means And to this end there being this one proper Expedient to wit the removing the Occasion of Divisions which several Persons do find to themselves in those late In●unctions which yet were intended to the same purpose of Concord in the Nation Be it Enacted That an Explanation of these Impositions and such Alleviations be al●owed to the tenderly Considerate and peaceably Scrupu●ous as follows In the Act of Uniformity By the Declaration of Assent and Consent to all Things and every Thing contained in and pre●cribed by the Two Books Of Common-Prayer and Of Ordering Priests and Deacons we under●tand not These Materials were provided during the sitting of that Parliament which passed the Act of Uniformity and other the like Rigorous Acts and are therefore drawn up in the Form of an Explanatory Bill because it was supposed they were not like to Repeal their own Acts though they might be got to Interpret them But now we have a New Parliament and that after another also Dissolved we may expect quicker Work Yet will the Proposing these Things still to view have their use both for repressing such as have said The Non-conformists know not what they would have and setting some Measure to our own Desires and the Parliaments Condescentions about the same that these Books are ●●n every Minute particular in●allible or free from that Defect which is incident to all Human Composure but that they are in the main Contents to be sin●erely approved and used And we do therefore allow this Declaration to be sufficient if it be made to the use of the Book in the Ordinary Constant Lord's Day Service notwithstanding any Exceptions some may have against some Things in the By-Offices and Occasional-Service the Rubrick and otherwise And for the Ceremonies which are made and have been alwayes and on all hands held to be only indifferent Thing● we think fit that they be left to the Consciences and P●●dence of Ministers and People every where excepting th●● Cathedrals to use them or forbear them as they judge 〈◊〉 most meet for their own and others Edification Provide● that if any Person will have his Child Baptized with t●● Signe of the Cross or stands upon any thing else hither●●● required by the Service-Book if the Minister himself scr●ple the Performance he shall have alwayes some Assistan●●● or Curate ready to do it In the same Act By those Words in the Subscription tha● It is not lawful to take Arms against the King upon any Pretence whatsoever we intend no new or strange Thing bu● the rightful Maintenance only of the King's Authority against Rebellion Our Reasons for these Interpretations appear in our Arguments before against the Oxford-Oath and this Subscription which we can by no means submit to without them There is moreover this Clause And I will conform to the Liturgy of the Church as it is now by Law Established we desire may be spared because upon our Declaration before of Assent and Consent which must be the Bounds of our Sense thereof it is needless altogether and can serve but for a Snare only to Mens Consciences according to the common Determination of Learned Writers in the Case of Subjection to Princes By the Words I abhor the Position of taking Arm● by the Authority of the King against any Commissionated by him we never thought of Advancing the Arbitrary Commissions of the King above Law but by those Commissionated by him we understand such as are Legally Commissionated and in the Legal Pursuit of such Commissions By the Clause which follows that requires a Renunciation of all Endeavour of any Alteration of Government in the Church or State we never meant to deny any Free-Born Subject his Right of Choosing Parliament-Men or Acting in his Place for the Common Good any way according to Law but that he shall Renounce all such Endeavour as is Seditious or not warranted by the Constitution of the Nation and particularly such an Endeavour as was Assumed in the late ●mes without and against the Consent of the King And 〈◊〉 the rest of the Subscription which is enjoyned but to the ●ar 1682 Be it enacted that it cease presently and be 〈◊〉 longer enjoyned And forasmuch as there is an Oath prescribed and re●●red of all Non-conformist Preachers that Reside in any ●rporate-Town by a certain Act of this Parliament made 〈◊〉 Oxford in the 17th Year of His now Majesty's Reign En●●led An Act for restraining Non-conformists from inha●ng Corporations We do further declare That it shall suf●any Man for the Enjoyment of his Free-born Liberty of ●abiting where he thinks best 〈◊〉 serve him also instead of the ●e-mentioned Subscription This Oath is of the same Contents with the Subscription before and to impose both is nothing else but the multiplying Wrath and laying Load on the already Laden to ●e that Oath in this Form of ●ords following I A. B. do ●●r That I hold it unlawful up●ny Pretence to take Arms a●st the King his Government or Laws And that I disclaim 〈◊〉 dangerous Position of taking Arms by his Authority against 〈◊〉 Person or any Legally Commissionated by him in the Legal suit of such Commissions And that I will not Endeavour Alteration of Government in the Church or State in any way ●anner not warranted by the Constitution of the Kingdom ●y otherwise than by Act of Parliament And as soon as 〈◊〉 Man hath taken the Oath thus he shall be discharged ●ll Penalty for his Omission before We do declare moreover That whereas it is required al●● the Act of Uniformity that every Minister who enjoys Living or Ecclesiastical Preferment shall be Ordained 〈◊〉 Bishop and there are several Persons of late who in 〈◊〉 of Necessity for want of Bishops took Presbyterian●ers Our Meaning is not in any wise to disgust the Re●ed-Churches beyond the Seas and make it necessary for such to be Re-ordained to the Office but that they r●ceive this Second Imposition 〈◊〉 Hands There is Reordinatio ad Officium which we say is generally decryed by Divines or Re-ordinatio ad Exercitium particulare which may be irrefragably proved from Acts 13.2 3. with Acts 14.26 and consequently allow'd to serve this Occasion to the Exercise of the●● Office in the new Charge un●● which they are or shall be ca●led and that the Bishop sh●● frame his Words accordingly And whereas there is a S●scription also in the Canons a● the Canonical-Oath of Obedience imposed on most Ministe● by the Bishops that have given some of the greatest Oc●sion to Non-conformity here●●fore If the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance be taken and the Articles of the Church subscribed and the Declaration before to the Common-Prayer made we see no need of boyling over these Three Things