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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59624	The Act of Parliament against religious meetings, proved to be the bishops act, or, A letter of the Arch-bishop of Canterbury to his fellow-bishops, to promote the persecution intended by it printed, to save the trouble of copying it out : with some Animadversions thereupon.	Sheldon, Gilbert, 1598-1677.	1670 (1670)	Wing S3067; ESTC R17672	6,340	9

THE Act of Parliament AGAINST Religious Meetings Proved to be The Bishops Act OR A LETTER of the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury to his fellow-Bishops to promote the Persecution intended by it Printed to save the trouble of copying it out With some ANIMADVERSIONS thereupon Anno Dom. 1670. For the Right Reverend Father in God my very good Lord and Brother the Lord Bishop of Right Reverend and my very good Lord IT hath pleased his Majesty and the two Houses of Parliament out of their pious care for the welfare of this Church and Kingdom by making and publishing the late Act for the preventing and suppressing Conventicles to lay a hopeful way for the peace and settlement of the Church and the Uniformity of Gods Service in the same It becomes VS the Bishops as more particularly sensible of the good providence of God to endeavour as much as in us lies the promoting so blessed a work And therefore having well considered what will be fit for me to do in my particular Diocess I thought fit to recommend the same Counsel and Method which I intend God willing to pursue my self to your Lordship and the rest of my Brethren the Bishops of my Province being thereunto encouraged by his Majesties Approbation and express Direction in this affair In the first place therefore I advise and require you that you call before you not only your Chancellors Archdeacons Commissaries Officials Registers and other your Ecclesiastical Officers but that also by such means and at such places as you shall judge most convenient you assemble before you or some grave and discreet person or persons your Commissioner or Commissioners the several Parsons Vicars and Curats of your Diocess and Iurisdictions within their several Deanaries and that you impart to them respectively as they shall come before you or your Commissioners the tenure of these my Letters requiring them and every of them as well in Mine as in your own Name that in their several capacities and stations they all perform their duty towards God the King and the Church by an exemplary conformity in their own persons and practice to his Majesty's Laws and the Rules of the Church in this behalf I advise that you admonish and recommend to all and every of the Parsons Vicars and Curates within your Diocess and Iurisdiction strictness and sobriety of life and conversation checking and punishing such astransgress and encouraging such as live orderly that so they by their vertuous and religious deportment may shew themselves patterns of good living to the people under their charge And next that you require of them as they will answer the contrary that in their own persons in their Churches they do decently and solemnly perform the Divine Service by reading the Prayers of the Church as they are appointed and ordered in and by the Book of Common Prayer without addition to or diminishing from the same or varying either in substance or ceremony from the order method which by the said Book is set down wherein I hear and am afraid too many do offend And that in the time of such their officiating they ever make use of and wear their Priestly Habit the Surplice and Hood that so by their due and reverend performance of so Holy a Worship they may give honour to God and by their own Example instruct the people of their Parishes what they ought to teach them in their Doctrine Having thus counselled the Ecclesiastical Iudges and Officers the Clergie of your Diocess in their own particular duties your Lordship is further desired to recommend unto them the care of the people under their respective Iurisdictions and Charges that in their several places they do their best to perswade and win all Nonconformists and Dissenters to obedience to his Majesties Laws and unity with the Church and such as shall be refractory to endeavour to reduce by the Censures of the Church or such other good means as shall be most conducing thereunto to which end I advise that all and every of the said Ecclesiastical Iudges and Officers and every of the Clergie of your Diocess and the Churchwardens of every Parish by their respective Ministers be desired in their respective stations and places that they take notice of all Nonconformists Holders Frequenters Maintainers Abetters of Conventicles and unlawful Assemblies under pretence of Religious Worship especially of the Preachers and Teachers in them and of the places wherein the same are held ever keeping a more watchful eye over the Cities and greater Towns from whence the mischief is for the most part derived unto the lesser Villages and Hamlets and wheresoever they find such wilfull Offenders that then with A Hearty Affection to the Worship of God the Honour of the King and his Laws and the Peace of the Church and Kingdom They do address themselves to the Civil Magistrate Iustices and others concerned imploring their help and assistance for preventing and suppressing of the same according to the late said Act in that behalf made and set forth And because there may be within the limits of your Diocess some peculiar or exempt Iurisdictions belonging either to your Dean Dean and Chapter Archdeacons or to some Ecclesiastical or other persons I do therefore desire that by such wayes and means as your Lordship shall conceive most proper you do communicate this my Letter unto them delivering unto every of them Copies of the same for their better Instruction and that you require them in My Name that within their several Iurisdictions they also pursue the Advices and Directions before set down as if the same had been given by a particular Letter unto them under my own hand Lastly That for the better direction to all those who shall be concerned in the Advices given by this Letter I advise you will give out amongst the Ecclesiastical Officers and your Clergie as many Copies of the same as your Lordship shall think conducible to the end for which it is designed And now my Lord what the success will be we must leave to God Almighty yet my Lord I have this confidence under God That if we do our parts now at first seriously by Gods help and the assistance of the Civil Power considering the abundant care and provision the Act contains for Our Advantage We shall within a few monthes see so great an alteration in the destractions of these times as that the seduced People returning from their seditious and self-seeking Teachers to the Unity of the Church and Uniformity of God's Worship it will be to the Glory of God the welfare of the Church the praise of his Majesty and Government the happiness of the whole Kingdom And so I bid your Lordship heartily farewell and am My Lord Your Lordships most affectionate Friend and Brother GILBERT CANT ' Lambeth-house May the 7th 1670 A Copy of a Letter from the Archdeacon of Lincoln to the several Parishes within his Iurisdiction SIR I have received