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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50759	A discourse of licenses to preach occasioned by a question propounded, viz., why many officers of the Church of England in the episcopal visitations urge the incumbents to take licenses to preach / replied to by Ja. Metford in a letter to the proposer ; published for the consideration of the clergy to whom it is of no small importance.	Metford, James.	1698 (1698)	Wing M1937; ESTC R27111	28,133	37

privilegiove speciali munitus Officium ceu exercitium proedicationis ejusdem verbi Dei in se assumat Populove aut Clero quovismodò praedicet in Latino Sermone seu vulgari in Ecchsia aut Extra c. Unless He present himself to the Diocesan and undergo his Examination and being found fit he be sent to Preach to one or more certain Parishes as the Ordinary shall think fit And 't is order'd that no Rector or Vicar is to permit any to Preach unless he show his Mission or special Priviledge How he appears qualified for the service of Preaching Or if he come from the Diocesan He is to shew his Letters under Seal But this concerned those that were not authorised Jure Scripto as all Incumbents were And Friers Praedicants and Minors were authorised to Preach by special Priviledg and the Gloss thinks Augustinians and Carmelites were so too So that it did not reach them But it did reach all other Friers Strangers Lecturers Catechisers and the like That Incumbents were not intended is plain from the Exception Jure Scripto minimè authorisati for they had their Authority under Seal and by the Canons were bound to Preach And the following Clause cleers it Curatum vero perpetuum missum intelligimus a Jure ad Locum et populum Curae suae And it farther adds concerning Curates that might be changed Sacerdotes vero Parochiales seu Vicarii temporales et non perpetui in formâ supradictâ non missi in Ecclesijs illis in quibus hujusmodi officia gerunt Illa sola simpliciter praedicent quae in Constitutione Provinciali a bonae memoriae Johanne Praedecessore nostro in Capite Ignorantia Sacerdotum continentur expressè Now because men might imagine this new License to Preach was order'd to be taken on purpose to get more Fees 'T is wisely provided by the Council that it should be granted Sine aliquali Exactione pecuniae without any manner of Fee Celeriter expediunter et gratis says the Constitution And then the Council provides If any such Preach without these Letters or if any say the Church hath not power to lay on this Restraint he incurs the Sentence of the greater Excommunication and is to be treated as a Heretick or Shismatick having all his goods confiscated Yea the place where such Preaching is held if not stopt by the People is put under Interdict From this Constitution we may draw these Conclusions 1 That this was a new Law not imposed before to take Licenses to Preach 2 That Incumbents are declared to have power to Preach Jure Scripto by Law in their Cures 3 That some others had Right to Preach without taking these Licenses Privilegio Speciali as Friers Praedicants Minors Augustinians and Carmelites 4 That these Licenses were to be granted by the Diocesian Bishop and not per inferiorem Episcopo namely not by any Archdeacon Chancellor Commissary Official or the like 5 That these Licenses were to be taken by Strangers Lecturers c. but not by Incumbents nor their temporary Curates 6 That these Incumbents or temporary Curates were to Admit or Refuse such Preachers in their Cures as they should find their Licenses to be 7 That those who were bound to take Licenses to Preach were not to pay one Farthing for them This part of the Constitution well observed would end all Disputes about Parochial Diocesan and Provincial Licenses 8 It shews where this wise Council Judged Licenses to Preach necessary Namely for all that had not perpetual or temporary Cure of Souls For to them that had such Cures Ordination gave them Jus ad Rem Authority to Preach in any part of the holy Catholick Church But Institution gave them Jus in Re a Right to Preach actually to the People of their Cures And to the temporary Curates by virtue of the Incumbents Deputation As also to necessary Assistants in case of Sickness or necessary Absence The Friers Titles are not necessary here to be spoken to because this Church of England is troubled with none of them that come to challenge any Right V. Fifthly If the Canons of this Church did ever oblige Incumbents to take Licenses to Preach It was upon very extraordinary and Accidental Considerations Such as also forced the Church to compose books of Homilies for the use of Incumbents that could not Preach Upon the Reformation there were great Numbers of Incumbents brought into the Church in the time of Popery that were not able to Preach who yet turned Protestants and conformed to the Doctrine and Discipline of this Church as far as they were able whom the Piety and Charity of those times thought not fit to cast out of their Livings because they thought fit to give them some Respect for their Conformity and to save the Parishes from the burthen of their maintenance and those poor Priests from perishing through wants and because they had not Learned men enough to put into their places and because they would not willfully force by their violent treatment so many men to act against the Safety of Church and State which had Enemies enough both at home and abroad wherefore they were permitted to continue in their Living and to celebrate Divine Service but were never forbid to Preach yet when the Church found them able by their Study and Industry and often hearing Sermons to Preach They wisely took that opportunity to try their Parts and to bring them under Subscriptions to use the Protestants method by requiring them to take Licenses to Preach when they thought themselves able One may justly wonder how such ignorant Men came into the Church Con. Carth. 6. c. 19. considering how importunate the Primitive Canons are for Priests Preaching insomuch that the last Council of Carthage enjoyns it every day or at least every Lords day And if the Presbyter were sick the Deacon is order'd to read a Homily to the People And that S. Ambrose Chrysostom and Augustines Works shew that they Preacht all Fasts and Feasts as well as Sundays and often every day and many times twice a day But this change must be Attributed to the guidance of the Roman Church in which Preaching fell early into contempt for Sozomen observes the difference of that Church from all others Soz. l. 7. c. 19. in this matter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which was in the Reign of Valentinian and Theodosius And least any should think Sozomen mistaken in the Practise of Rome he may find the same Affirmed by Cassiodore in his Tripartite History who lived in Rome and could not be Ignorant of their services 'T is true Valesius thinks this custome alter'd in Pope Leo who did Preach to the People but one Swallow makes no Summer He himself looks Irregular for his pains You may know that that Church holds Preaching to be no part of the Essence of Priesthood for they account Potestatem offerendi verum corpus Christi remittendi peccata the power of