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A79702 Acts for the utter abolishing of bishops out of the churches of England and Scotland. With a motion to the House for the order for church-government by a better way. Church of Scotland. 1643 (1643) Wing C4196GA; Thomason E87_8; ESTC R19275 3,605 8

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ACTS FOR The utter abolishing of Bishops out of the Churches of ENGLAND and SCOTLAND WITH A Motion to the House for the Order for Church-Government by a better Way Jan 31 1642 LONDON Printed for Thomas Watson 1643. The Act of the generall Assembly in Scotland for the abolishing of Bishops in that Kingdome THe Kings Majestie having declared that it is his Royall will and pleasure that all questions about Religion and and matters ecclesiasticall be determined by the Church having also by publique Proclamation indicted this free Nationall Assembly for setling the present distractions of this Church and for establishing a perfect peace against such divisions and discords as have been sore displeasing to his Majestie and grievous to all his Majesties good subjects And now his Majesties Commissioner Iohn E. of Traquair instructed and authorized with s full Commission being present and sitting in this Assembly now fully conveened and orderly constitute in all the members thereof according to the order of this Church having at large declared his Majesties xeal to the reformed Religion and his Koyall care and tender affection to this Church where his Majestie had both his Birth and Baptisme his great displeasure at the manifold distractions and divisions of this Church and Kingdome and his desire to have all our wounds perfectly cured with a faire and fatherly hand And although in the way approved by this Church tryall hath bin taken in former Assemblies before from the Church Registers to our full satisfaction Yet the Commissioner making a particular inquirie from the Members of the Assembly now solemnly conveened concerning the reall and true causes of so many and great evils at this time past and so sore troubling the peace of the Church and Kingdome It was represented to his Majesties Commissioner by this Assembly that besides many other the main and most materiall causes were Reasons from the Assembly for the change of Church-government 1 THe pressing of this Church by Prelates with a Service-book or Book of Common-Prayer without direction or warrant ftom the Church and containing besides the popish frame thereof divers popish errors and Ceremonies and the seeds of manifold grosse superstitions and Idolatrie with a Book of Canons without warrant or direction from the generall assembly establishing a tyrannicall power over the Church in the person of Bishop and overthrowing the whole discipline and government of the Church by assemblies with a Book of consecration and Ordination without warrant of authority civill or ecclesiasticall appointing offices in the house of God which are not wa ranted by the word of God and repugnant to the Discipline and Acts of our Church with the Commissicn erected without the consent of the Church subverting the Jurisdiction and ordinarie Judicatories of this Church and giving to persons meerly Ecclesiasticall the power of both Swords and to persons meerly civill the power of the Keyes and Church Censures 2. A second cause was the Articles of Perth viz. Observation of Festivall dayes kneeling at the Communion Confirmation Administration of the Sacraments in private places which were brought in by a civill Assembly and are contrary to the confession of faith 1590 as it was meant and subscribed in Ann● 1580. and divers times since to the order and constitution of this Church 3. A third cause was the change of the Government of the Church from the Assemblies of the Church to the persons of Church-men usurping the priority and power over their brethren by the way and under the name of Episcopall government against the confession Anno. 1580. Against the order set down in the book of policy and against the intentions and Constitutions of this Church from the beginning 4. A fourth cause was the civill places and power of Church men their sitting in Session Counsell and Exchequer their ridding sitting and voting in Parliament and their sitting in the Bench as Justices of Peace which according to the constitutions of the Church are incompatible with their spirituall function do tend to the hindrance of the Minister A fifth cause was the keeping and authorizing of corrupt Assemblies at Linlithgow 1606. 1608. at Glasgow 1610. at Aberdene 1616. at S. Andrews 1617. at Perth 1618. which are all null and unlawful as being called and constitute quite contrary to the order and constitutions of this Church received practised ever since the reformation of Religion labouring to introduce innovations in this Church against the order religion established A sixt cause was the want of lawfull and free generall Assemblies rightly constitute of Pastors Doctors and Elders yeerly or oftner pro re nata according to the liberty of this Church expressed in the Book of Policy and acknowledged in the Art of Parliament 1592. Which his Majesties Commissioner having heard patiently and examined particularly all objections to the contrary being answered to the full The whole Assembly with expresse consent of his Majesties Commissioner in one heart and voice did declare that these and such other proceedings from the neglect and breach of the Nationall Covenant of this Church Kingdom made in An. 1580. have been indeed the true and main cause of all our evils and distractions and therefore ordains according to the constitutions of the generall Assemblies of this Church and upon the grounds respective above-specified that the foresaid Service-Booke Book of Canons and Ordination and High Commission be rejected still that the Articles of Perth be no more practised that Episcopall government and the civill places and power of Chuch-men be holden still as unlawfull in this Church that the above-named pretended Assemblies at Linlithgow 1606 1608. at Glasgow 1610. an Aberden 1616. at S. Andrews 1617. at Perth 1618. be hereafter accounted as null and of none effect and that for preservation of Religion and preventing all such evils in time coming Generall Assemblies rightly constitute as the perfect and compent Judge of all matters Ecclesiasticall hereafter be kept yeerly and oftener as occasion and necessity shall require the necessity being first remonstrate to his Majesty by humble supplication as also of these occasionall Assemblies that Church-Sessions Presbyteries and Synodall Assemblies constitute and ordained according to the Book of Policies and constitutions of this Church be also hereafter kept as occasion and necessity shall require The Heads of the Bill in Parliament for abolishing of Bishops in ENGLAND WHereas the government of the Church of England by Archbishops Bishops Chancellours and Commissaries Deanes Archdeacons and other their Ecclesiasticall Officers hath been found by long experience to be a great impediment to the perfect reformation and growth of Religion It is therefore enacted from henceforth there shall be no Archbishops Bishops c or any their Officers within this Church and Kingdome and that if any person shall take upon him to exercise any such Office he shall incurre a Praemunire according to the Statute of 16. Ric. 2. And that all Mannors Lands Rectories Impropriations Houses Rents Services and