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Seasonable CONSIDERATIONS SINCE the world is not grown too wise for Instruction nor Christians so deified as to be freed from Infirmity Since some things may be overlookt because they are in Books so little consulted and others forgot by reason of the length of time which happens betwixt being admitted to Benefices and that wherein the observance of Canons and Constitutions postpones them to the preserving of or else which is rarer prefers them before our worldly Interest And since an Ecclesiastical Commission is on foot for the bringing the Model of the Church of England to Copy of that of Amsterdam it may not be altogether amiss either for instruction reminding or shaming those who have the same honor the Libellatici of old had the Power now in their hands of giving away their Church by presenting their Prince with the Fences and Defence of it to copy to them some of those Canons which their Forefathers under the unaspersed James I. took to be the surest Rules for the preservation of the Church of England and let them see how they will agree with those things they are to compass now for its Destruction Ca● Whosoever hereafter shall affirm That the Church of England as by Law established is not Orthodox and Apostolical delivering and following the Doctrine of the Apostles let him be excommunicated ipso facto not to be restored but by the Arch-Bishop and that after he hath repented and publickly revoked that impious Error Ca● Whosoever hereafter shall affirm the Form of Liturgy as by Law established in the Church of England and comprehended in the Book of publick Prayers and of the Administration of the Sacraments to be a corrupt superstitious or unlawful Worship of God or to contain any thing in it contrary to the Canon of Scripture let him be excommunicated ipso facto and not restored but by his Diocesan Bishop or the Arch-Bishop and that after he hath repented and publickly revoked that impious Error m. V. Whosoever hereafter shall affirm any of the 39 Articles consented to by the Arch-Bishops and Bishops of both Provinces c. to take away all variety of Opinions and to confirm and establish Consent in Matters of Faith to be in any part superstitious or erroneous or any thing of that nature so that he cannot with a safe Conscience subscribe to the truth of them let him be excommunicated ipso facto c. as in the First Whosoever hereafter shall affirm That the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England establish'd by Law are impious antichristian or superstitious or any thing of that nature so that pious and religious Men tho commanded by lawful Authority cannot approve or observe them or as occasion offers subscribe to them let him be excommunicated ipso facto and not absolved till he hath repented and publickly revoked those impious Errors Whosoever hereafter shall affirm The Government and Discipline of the Church of England under the King's Majesty by Arch-Bishops c. to be Antichristian and contrary to the Word of God let him be excommunicated ipso facto and not absolved till he hath repented and publickly revoked this impious Error Whosoever hereafter shall affirm or teach The Form and Rite of Ordaining and Inaugurating Bishops Priests and Deacons to contain any thing in it contrary to the Word of God and that all those Bishops c. ordained after that manner not to be rightly ordained neither by themselves nor by others are to be taken for Bishops c. before that they have received other Ordination to those holy Offices let him be excommunicated ipso facto c. as in Can. 6. Whosoever hereafter shall segregate themselves from the Communion of Saints such as is in the. Church of England approved from the Rules of the Apostles and consociating by a new Covenant of Fraternity count those Christians who conform to the Doctrine Discipline Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England profane and unworthy to be communicated within the Christian Profession let them be excommunicated ipso facto and not restored but by the Arch-Bishop and that after they have repented and publickly revoked those impious Errors Can. Whosoever hereafter shall affirm That those Ministers who refuse to subscribe to the Form and Manner of Divine Worship appointed in the Church of England and prescribed in the Book of publick Form of Prayer and their Followers may assume to them selves the Name and Title of another Church which it not establish'd by Law and that shall dare to affirm in publick that their pretended Church has long groaned under the Burden of certain Grievances imposed on them and their aforesaid Members by the Church of England and by its Decrees and Sanctions established by Law let them be excommunicated ipso facto and not absolved before that they have repented and publickly revoked those impious Errors Ca● XXX Let no one be admitted into Holy Orders or any Ecclesiastical Benefice by Institution or Collation or to exercise the Office of Preacher Prelector or Catechist in either of the Vniversities or in any Cathedral or Collegiate-Church or City or Market-Town or in a Parochial-Church or Chappel or any other place of this Kingdom unless he hath before subscribed to these following Articles That the Book of the publick Liturgy and of Ordaining and Consecrating Bishops Priests and Deacons contains in it nothing contrary to the Word of God but that it is lawful to use the same and that he in publick Prayers and Administring the Sacraments will always observe that Form which is prescribed in the said Book and no other That he altogether approves of that Book of the Articles of Religion which was consented to by the Arch-Bishops c. Anno 1561. and that all and every of those Articles contain'd in the same Book which are 39. besides the Ratification he acknowledges to he consentaneous to the Word of God. ●an xviii If any Minister after his subscribing to the aforesaid Articles shall omit to use that Form of Liturgy or the Rites and Ceremonies whatsoever appointed in the Book of Publick Prayers let him he suspended and unless he within a Month amend and submit himself let him be excommunicated but if after another Month he continue contumacious let him be removed from the sacred Ministry I doubt not but the bare reading these over every one's mind especially those for whom this is now designed has conceiv'd more Questions and rais'd more Dissatisfactions against the design of this Ecclesiastical Commission than the Actors under it will be able to satisfie And the Letter to a Friend containing some Queries about this Commission has proposed so many things to them to be answered as they will shorten my design and confine me to a few things barely referring to these Canons Not therefore to meddle at least as to them with the Authority of their Commission nor to examin by what Canon since Interest is the great Rule they dare to