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Constitutions and canons ecclesiasticall; treated upon by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, presidents of the convocations for the respective provinces of Canterbury and York, and the rest of the bishops and clergie of those provinces; and agreed upon with the Kings Majesties licence in their severall synods begun at London and York. 1640 ...; Constitutions and canons ecclesiastical
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Church of England.
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And all the said Complaints or Certificates shall be presented up to the Judges in their severall Circuits by the Bishops Register or some other of his Deputies immediately after the publishing of his Majesties Commission or at the end of the charge which shall bee then given by the Judge And this upon paine of Suspension for three moneths This sacred Synode doth earnestly intreat the said Reverend Justices of Assise to bee carefull in the execution of the said Lawes committed to their trust as they will answer to God for the daily encrease of this grosse kinde of superstition And further we doe also exhort all Judges whether Ecclesiastical or Tempoâ—all upon the like accompt that they would not admit in any of their Courts any vexatious Complaint Suit or Suits or Presentments against any Minister Churchwardens Questmen Sidemen or other Church-Officers for the making of any such Presentments And lastly we enjoyne that every Bishop shall once in every yeare send into his Majesties High Court of Chancery a Significavit of the names and sirnames of all such Recusants who have stood excommunicated beyond the time limited by the Law and shall desire that the Writ De excommunicato capâ—endo might bee at once sent out against them all Ex Officio And for the better execution of this Decree this present Synode doth most humbly beseech his most sacred Majesty that the Officers of the said High Court of Chancery whom it shall concerne may bee commanded to send out the aforesaid Writ from time to time as is desired for that it would much exhaust the particular estates of the Ordinaries to sue out severall Writs at their owne charge And that the like command also may be laid upon the Sheriffes and their Deputies for the due and faithfull execution of the said Writs as often as they shall be brought unto them And to the end that this Canon may take the better and speedier effect and not to be deluded or delayed We further decree and ordaine That no Popish Recusant who shall persist in the said sentence of Excommunication beyond the time prescribed by Law shall be absolved by vertue of any Appeale in any Ecclesiasticall Court unlesse the said partie shall first in his or her owne person and not by a Proctor take the usuall Oath De parendo Iuri stando mandatis Ecclesiae IV. Against Socinianisme WHEREAS much mischiefe is already done in the Church of God by the spreading of the damnable and cursed Heresie of SOCINIANISME as being a complication of many ancient Heresies condemned by the foure first generall Councels and contrariant to the Articles of Religion now established in the Church of England And whereas it is too apparent that the said wicked and blasphemous errours are unhappily dilated by the frequent divulgation and dispersion of dangerous Books written in favour and furtherance of the same whereby many especially of the younger or unsetled sort of people may be poysoned and infected It is therefore decreed by this present Synode That no Stationer Printer or Importer of the said Books or any other person whatsoever shall print buy sell or disperse any Booke broaching or maintaining of the said abominable Doctrine or Positions upon paine of Excommunication ipso facto to be thereupon incurred And wee require all Ordinaries upon paine of the Censures of the Church that beside the Excommunication aforesaid they doe certifie their names and offences under their Episcopall Seale to the Metropolitan by him to be delivered to his Majesties Attorney Generall for the time being to be proceeded withall according to the late Decree in the Honourable Court of Star-chamber against spreaders of prohibited Books And that no Preacher shall presume to vent any such Doctrine in any Sermon under paine of Excommunication for the first offence and Deprivation for the second And that no Student in either of the Universities of this Land nor any person in holy Orders excepting Graduates in Divinity or such as have Episcopall or Archidiaconall Jurisdiction or Doctors of Law in holy Orders shall be suffered to have or reade any such Socinian Booke or discourse under paine if the offender live in the University that he shal be punished according to the strictest Statutes provided there against the publishing reading or maintaining of false Doctrine or if he live in the City or Country abroad of a Suspension for the first offence and Excommunication for the second and Deprivation for the third unlesse he will absolutely and in terminis abjure the same And if any Lay-man shall be seduced into this opinion and be convicted of it he shall be excommunicated and not absolved but upon due repentance and abjuration and that before the Metropolitane or his owne Bishop at the least And wee likewise enjoyne that such Bookes if they be found in any prohibited hand shall be immediately burned and that there be a diligent search made by the appointment of the Ordinary after all such Books in what hands soever except they be now in the hands of any Graduate in Divinity and such as have Episcopall or Archidiaconall Jurisdiction or any Doctor of Lawes in holy Orders as aforesaid and that all who now have them except before excepted be strictly commanded to bring in the said Books in the Universities to the Vice-chancellors and out of the Universities to the Bishops who shall returne them to such whom they dare trust with the reading of the said Books and shall cause the rest to be burned And we farther enjoyne that diligent enquiry be made after all such that shall maintaine and defend the aforesaid Socinianisme and when any such shall be detected that they be complained of to the severall Bishops respectively who are required by this Synode to represse them from any such propagation of the aforesaid wicked and detestable opinions V. Against Sectaries VVHEREAS there is a provision now made by a Canon for the suppressing of Poperie and the growth thereof by subjecting all Popish Recusants to the greatest severitie of Ecclesiasticall Censures in that behalfe This present Synode well knowing that there are other Sects which indeavour the subversion both of the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England no lesse then Papists doe although by another way for the preventing thereof doth hereby decree and ordain That all those proceedings and penalties which are mentioned in the aforesaid Canon against Popish Recusants as far as they shall be appliable shall stand in full force and vigour against all Anabaptists Brownists Separatists Familists or other Sect or Sects person or persons whatsoever who do or shall either obstinately refuse or ordinarily not having a lawfull impediment that is for the space of a moneth neglect to repair to their Parish Churches or Chappels where they inhabit for the hearing of Divine Service established and receiving of the holy Communion according to Law And we do also further decree and ordain that the Clause contained in the Canon now made by this
of Administration of the holy Communion And we declare that this situation of the holy Table doth not imply that it is or ought to be esteemed a true and proper Altar whereon Christ is again really sacrificed but it is and may be called an Altar by us in that sense in which the Primitive Church called it an Altar and in no other And because experience hath shewed us how irreverent the behaviour of many people is in many placâ—â— some leaning others casting their hats and some sitting upon some standing and others sitting under the Communion Table in time of Divine Service for the avoiding of these and the like abuâ—â—s it is thought meet and convenient by this present Synod that the said Communion Tables in all Chancells or Chappells be decently severed with Rails to preserve them from such or worse profanations And because the Administration of holy things is to be performed with all possible decency and reverence thereâ—ore we judge it fit and convenient according to the word of the Service-Book established by Act of Parliament Draw neer c. that all Communicants with all humble reverence shall draw neer and approach to the holy Table there to receive the divine Mysteries which have heretofore in some places been unfitly carried up and down by the Minister unlesse it shall be otherwise appointed in respect of the incapacity of the place or other inconvenienceâ— by the Bishop himself in his jurisdiction and other Ordinaries respectively in theirs And lastly whereas the Church is the house of God dedicated to his holy worship and therefore ought to minde us both oâ— the greatnesse and goodnesse of his Divine Majestie certain it is that the acknowledgement thereof not onely inwardly in our hearts but also outwardly with our bodies must needs be pious in it self profitable unto us and edifying unto others We therefore think it very meet and behoovefull and heartily commend it to all good and well affected people members of this Church that they be ready to tender unto the Lord the said acknowledgement by doing reverence and obeisance both at their coming in and going out of the said Churches Chancels or Chappels according to the most ancient custome of the Primitive Church in the purest times and of this Church also for many yeers of the Reign of Quâ—en Elizabeth The reviving therefore of this ancient and laâ—dable custome we heartily commend to the serious considâ—ration of all good people not with any intention to exhibite any Religious worship to the Communion Table the East or Church or any thing therein contained in so doing or to perform the said gesture in the celebration of the holy Euchaâ—ist upon any opinion of a corporall pâ—esence of the body of Jesus Christ on the holy Table or in tâ—e mysticall elements but onely for the advancement of Gods Majestie and to give him alone that honour and glory that is due unto him and no otherwise and in the practise or omission of this Rite we desire that the rule of Charity prescribed by the Apostle may be observed which is That they which use this Rite despise not them who use it not and that they who use it not condemn not those that use it VIII Of Preaching for Conformity WHerâ—as the Preaching of Order and Decencie according to St Pauls rule doth conduce to edification it is required that all Preachers as well Beneficâ—d men as others shall positively and plainly Preach and Inâ—truct the people in their publike Sermons twice in the yeer at the least that the Rites and Ceremonies now established in the Church of England are lawfull and commendable and that they the said people and others ought to conform themselves in their practise to all the said Rites and Ceremonies and that the people and others ought willingly to submit themselves unto the authority and government of the Church as it is now established under the Kings Majestie And if any Preacher shall refuse or neglect to do according to this Canon let him be suspended by his Ordinary during the time of his refusall or wilfull forbearance to do thereafter IX One Book of Articles of inquiry to be used at all Parochiall Visitations FOr the better settling of an Uniformity in the outward government and administration of the Church and for the more preventing of just grievances which may be laid upon Church-wardens and other Sworn-men by any impertinâ—nt inconvenient or illegall enquiries in the Articles for Ecclesiasticall Visitations This Synode hath now causâ—d a Summary or Collection of Visiâ—â—tory Articles out of the Rubricks of the service-Service-Book and the Canons and warrantable Rules of the Church to be made and for future direction to be deposited in the Records of the Arch-bishop of Canterbury and we do decree and ordain that from henceforth no Bishop or other person whatsoever having right to hold use or exercise any Parochiall Visitation shall under the pain of a Moneths suspension upon a Bishop and two Moneths upon any other Ordinary that is delinquent and this to be incurred ipso facto cause to be printed or published or otherwise to be given in charge to the Church-wardenâ— or to any other persons which shall be sworn to make Presentmâ—nts any other Articles or formes of enquiry upon oath then such onely as shal be approved and in terminis allowed unto him upon due request made by his Metropolitan under his Seal of Office Provided alwaies that after the end of three yeers next following the date of these presents the Metropolitan shal not either at the instance of those which have right to hold Parochiall Visitations oâ— upon any other occasion make any addition or diminution from that allowance to any Bishop of Visitatory Articles which he did last before in any Diocesse within his Province approve of But calling for the same shall hold and give that onely for a perpetual Rule and then eveâ—y Paâ—ish shal be bound onely to take the said Book from the Arch-deacons and other having a Peculiar or exempt Jurisdiction but once from that time in three yeers in case they do make it appear that they have the said Book remaining in their publike Châ—st for the use of the Parish And from evâ—ry Bishop they shall receive the said Articles at the Episcopall Visitation onely and in manner and form as formerly they have been accustomed to do and at no greater price then what hath bin usually paied in the said Diocesse respectively X. Concerning the Conversation of the Clergie THe sober graveâ— and exemplary Conversation of al those that are imployed in Administration of holy things being of great avail for the furtherance of pietieâ— It hath beâ—n the Religious care of the Church of England strictly to enjoyn to all every one of her Clergie a pious regular and inoffensive dâ—meanourâ— and to prohibit all loose and scandalous carriage by severe censures to be inflicted upon such delinquents as appeares by the 74. and 75. Canons Anno 1603. provided