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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46453	King James his letter and directions to the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury concerning preaching and preachers with the Bishop of Canterburies letter to the Bishop of Lincolne, Lord Keeper, desiring him to put in practise the Kings desires that none should preach but in a religious forme : and not that every young man should take to himselfe an exorbitant liberty to preach what he listeth to the offence of His Majesty and the disturbance and disquiet of the church and common-wealth.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I); Abbot, George, 1562-1633.	1642 (1642)	Wing J139; ESTC R16287	4,604	11

KING JAMES HIS LETTER AND DIRECTIONS TO THE LORD ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY Concerning Preaching and Preachers With the Bishop of Canterburies Letter to the Bishop of Lincolne Lord Keeper desiring him to put in practise the Kings desires that none should preach but in a Religious forme And not that every young man should take to himselfe an exorbitant Liberty to preach what he listeth to the offence of his Majesty and the disturbance and disquiet of the Church and Common-wealth Printed for Thomas Walkeley 1642. KING IAMES HIS LETTER And Directions to the Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury concerning Preaching and Preachers MOst reverend Father in God right trusty and right entirely beloved Councellour wee greet you well for as much as the abuses and extravagancies of Preachers in the Pulpit have beene at all times redressed in this Realme by some act of Councell or State with the advise and resolution of Grave and learned Prelates insomuch as the very licensing of Preachers had a beginning by an order of Starchamber the 8. day of Iuly in the 19 yeare of the Raigne of King Henry the eight our Noble Predecessour And whereas at this present divers young Students by reading of late Writers and ungrounded Divines doe broach many times unprofitable unsound seditious and dangerous Doctrines to the scandall of this Church and disquieting of the State and present Government Wee upon the humble representation unto us of these inconveniences by sundry Grave and reverend Prelates of this Church as also of our Princely care and zeale for the extirpation of Schisme and discension growing from these Seeds and for the setling of a Religious and peaceable Government both of the Church and State doe by these our speciall Letters streightly charge and command you to use all possible care and diligence that these limitations and cautions herewith sent unto you concerning Preachers bee duely and strictly from henceforth observed and put in practise by the severall Bishops of their severall Diocesses within your Iurisdiction And to this end our pleasure is that you send them forth Coppies of these directions to bee by them speedily sent and communicated to every Parson Vicar Curate and Lecturer in every Cathedrall and Parish Church within their severall Diocesses and that you earnestly require them to employ their uttermost endeavours in the performance of this so important a businesse letting them know that wee have a speciall eye to their proceedings and expect a strict accompt both of you and every of them And these our Letters shall bee your sufficient warrant in this behalfe Given under our Signet at our Castle of Windsor the 4. day of August in the 20. yeare of our Raigne of England France and Ireland and of Scotland the six and fiftieth 1622. His Majesties Orders and Directions concerning Preaching and Preachers 1 THat no Preacher under the degree and calling of a Bishop or Deane of a Cathedrall or Collegiate Church and they upon the Kings dayes onely and set Festivals doe take occasion by the expounding of any Text of Scripture whatsoever to fall into any set course or Common place otherwise then by opening the coherence and division of his Text which shall not bee comprehended and warranted in essence substance effect or naturall inference within some one of the Articles of Religion set forth 1562. Or in some one of the Homilies set forth by authority in the Church of England not onely for a helpe of none preaching but withall for a Paterne as it were for the preaching Ministers and for their further instruction for the performance thereof that they forthwith read over and peruse diligently the said Booke of Articles and the two Bookes of Homilies 2 THat no Person Vicar Curate or Lecturer shall preach any Sermon or collation hereafter upon Sun-dayes and Holy-dayes in the after noones in any Cathedrall or Parish Church throughout the Kingdome But upon some part of the Catechisme or some Text taken out of the Creed and Commandements or the Lords prayer Funerall Sermons onely excepted and that those Preachers bee most incouraged and approved off who spend their afternones exercise in the examination of Children in their Catechismes and in the expounding of the severall points and heads of the Catechisme which is the most ancient and laudable custome of teaching in the Church of England 3 THat no Preacher of what title soever under the Degree of a Bishop or Deane at the least doe from hence forth presume to preach in any popular auditory the deepe points of Predestination Election Reprobation or of the universality efficacity restibility or irrestibility of Gods grace but rather leave those theames to bee handled by learned men and that modestly and moderately by use and application rather then by way of positive Doctrine as being fitter for Schooles and Vniversities then for simple auditories 4 THat no Preacher of what title or denomination soever shall presume from henceforth in any auditory within this Kingdome to declare limit or bound out by way of positive Doctrine in any Lecture or Sermon the Power Prerogative Iurisdiction Authority or Duty of Soveraigne Princes or therein meddle with these matters of State and the reference betweene Princes and the People then as they are instructed in the Homily of obedience and in the rest of the Homilies and articles of Religion set forth as before is mentioned by publique authority but rather confine themselves wholly to these two heads of faith and good life which are all the Subject of the ancient Sermons and Homilies 5 THat no Preacher of what title or denomination soever shall causelesly and without any invitation from the Text fall into any bitter invective and undecent rayling speeches against the Papists or Puritans but wisely and gravely when they are occasioned thereunto by the Text of Scripture free both the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England from the aspersions of either adversary especially where the auditory is suspected to bee tainted with the one or the other infection 6 LAstly that the Archbishop and Bishops of the Kingdome whom his Majesty hath good cause to blame for their former remisnesse bee more wary and chose in licensing of Preachers and revoke all grants made to any Chancellour Officiall or Commissary to passe licences in this kind and that all the Lectures throughout the Kingdome a new body severed from the ancient Clergy of England as being neither Parson Vicar nor Curate bee licensed hence forward in the Court of Faculties onely upon recommendation of the party from the Bishop of the Diocesse under his Hand and Seale with a fiat from the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and a Confirmation under the great Seale of England and that such as transgresse any one of these directions bee suspended by the Bishop of the Diocesse or in his default by the Lord Archbishop of the Province Ab officio beneficio for a yeare and a day untill his Majesty by the advise of the next convocation prescribe