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A46024 A declaration of the Lords spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons in this present Parliament of Ireland assembled, concerning ecclesiastical government and the Book of common-prayer Ireland. Parliament. 1661 (1661) Wing I383; ESTC R36828 819 1

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CR DIEV ET MON DROIT MONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE ❧ A DECLARATION Of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament of IRELAND assembled concerning Ecclesiastical Government and the Book of common-COMMON-PRAYER WE the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons assembled in Parliament observing that although the Government of the Church by Arch-Bishops and Bishops and the Book of common-Common-Prayer are both setled and established by the Laws of the Land Yet divers Fanaticks and other persons given to change doe take the boldness not onely to deprave the one and to speak irreverently of the other but doe obstinately refuse to submit to that Government and to use that form of Prayer in high contempt and derogation of those Laws which because in some it may proceed from ignorance of the Law for which there is some pretence by reason of the long intermission of Iustice occasioned by the late confusions We doe therefore Publish and Declare that those Laws are still in force and that We are fully resolved by all fair and lawful ways and means to countenance and support the same and in order thereunto We do hereby require all persons whatsoever to give due obedience to the said Ecclesiastical Government and to conform themselves to the said Book of common-Common-Prayer and to the practise thereof as the onely publique form of serving God established and allowed to be in this Realm And we do further require all Magistrates Ecclesiastical and Civil and all other Officers and Ministers of Iustice to proceed with all just severity against the contemners of the said Government or common-Common-Prayer Book either by disobedience by reproachful words or otherwise as they will answer the contrary at their utmost perils May the 17. 1661. ORdered that the several Ministers in and about this City do read the said Declaration the next Sunday after its coming from the Press publiquely in their Congregations before Sermon And that all Ministers throughout this Kingdom do read the same the next Sunday after its comming into their hands in their respective Congregations And that the several Reverend BISHOPS of this House do take care that there be a convenient number of the said Declarations sent into their several Diocesses and that it be duely put in execution in their said Diocesses John Keating Cler. Parl. GOD SAVE THE KING Imprinted at Dublin by William Bladen by special Order Anno Dom. 1661.