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A86477	Mr. Hollis his speech to the Lords in Parliament concerning peace. With a motion for some course to be taken for repairing of trade, that so poore tradesmen may be preserved to hold out during these troublesome times. Whereunto is added a relation of a vision of blood in the skie, that appeared about Redding on Tuesday night last.	Holles, Denzil Holles, Baron, 1599-1680.	1643 (1643)	Wing H2478; Thomason E90_18; ESTC R19938	15,536	34

the Lords Supper Art 8. They shall advertise the people at the least fifteene dayes before the Lords Supper to the end they may be prepared for it Art 9. Besides the former examination which is made of the doctrine before they communicate unto the holy Supper every one ought againe to be catechised once a yeare at the least according to the commoditie of the Ministers and Parishioners CHAP. XI Of the Fast Article I THe publike fast shall be celebrated in the Church what time the Colloque or Synode shall thinke it meete as a day of rest in which there shall be Sermons in the forenoone and afternoone with prayers the reading of the word of God and singing of Psalmes all most meete for the occasions and causes of the Fast and all by the authoritie of the Magistrate Of Thankesgiving Art 2. The solemne thankesgiving must be celebrated in like manner as the Fast all the exercises being fitted to the occasions and causes of it CHAP. XII Of Marriage Article I. THe promises of Marriages shall be made in the presence of the Parents friends Governours or Masters or Mistresses of the parties and with consent of them and in the presence of the Minister or of one Elder or Deacon who shall receive the promises pure and simple with invocation of the name of God otherwise they shall not be received And as for those that are at their owne libertie the presence of the Minister or one of the Elders or Deacons is also necessary for the policie Art 2. The children and those which are under Government cannot make any promise of Marriage without the consent of their Fathers and Mothers or of their Tutors or of their Gardians in whose power they are Art 3. If the Fathers and Mothers are so unreasonable that they will not accord to so holy a thing the Consistory shall give them such advice as shall be expedient to the which if the Fathers and Mothers will not agree they shall have recourse to the Magistrate Art 4. Even those which have beene married owe this honour to their parents not to marry themselves without the advice of their parents for want whereof they shall be censured Art 5. Those which shall be betrothed shall promise with their parents that they shal be married within three moneths after their promises are made or within six moneths in case they be in a voyage And if they will not obey they shall be pursued by the Ecclesiasticall Censures Art 6. No stranger shall be betrothed unlesse he have leave of the Right Worshipfull the Governours or their Leiftenants Art 7. In marriages the degrees of consanguinitie and affinitie shall be diligently observed according to the law of God Art 8. The publication of Matrimony shall be declared three Sundayes one after another immediately in the Church where the parties dwells or if they marry in some other Parish they shall bring good testimony from the Minister that shall have published them otherwise they cannot be married Art 9. To avoyde the abuse and prophanation of the day of Rest and the manifest contempt of the Word of God which is made in the marriage-dayes it is thought good that marriage be no more celebrated upon Sunday but on the weeke dayes onely when there is a Sermon Art 10. If any will oppose himselfe against the publication of Matrimony they must addresse themselves to the Minister first or to two of the Elders which shall signifie it to the next Consistory to come and give the reasons of his opposition Of which the Consistory shall judge And if there be any appeale it shall be referred to the Colloque Art 11. Those which have companied together before they are married shall not be married before they have made confession of their fault and if the fault be openly knowne they shall doe it before all the Church And if it be lesse knowne the Consistory shall give order for it Art 12. The promises of Widdowes that would remarry themselves shall not be received but six moneths after the death of their deceased husband that both for the honestie and well seemlinesse and to meet with many inconveniences As for the men they shall be exhorted to stay a certain time also without constraining them thereunto CHAP. XIII Of the Visitation of the sicke Article I. THose which have sicke folke shall advertise those which have charge in the Church in commodious time to this end that they may be visited and comforted Art 2. Those which are sicke shall be advertised to make their will in good time and whilst they are in their good sense which shall be done in the presence of the Minister or Elder or some other able men and worthy of faith which shall seale the said Testament to this end they may be approved CHAP. XIV Of Buriall Article I. THe dead bodies shall not be brought nor made enter into the Churches but into the Church-yard ordained for the faithfull Art 2. The kinsfolke friends and neighbours of the dead and as many as the kinsfolkes will pray even the Ministers if they be at leisure as members of the Church and brethren not in regard of their charge no more than the Elders and Deacons and shall goe to conduct the dead corps for the comelinesse of the buriall At the which there shall be neither Sermon nor prayer nor ringing of Bells neither any kinde of other ceremony Art 3. The dead shall not be buried without advertising of the Minister before Art 4. The dead corps of those which are excommunicated shall not be buried among the faithfull without ordinance of the Magistrate CHAPTER XV Of Ecclesiasticall Censures Article I. ALL those which are of the Church shall be subject to the censures as well those which have charge in the Church as those which have no charge Art 2. The suspention from the holy Supper of the Lord shal be published only in matter of heresie schisme or other notable fault of which the Consistorie shall judge Art 3. Those which shall not receive the advertisements and reprehensions of faults made by the Word of God and which continue hardened without hope of being brought into the right way after many exhortations if they cannot be brought againe they shall be excommunicated whereunto shall be proceeded by three Sundayes according to the order as followeth Art 4. The first Sunday every one shall be exhorted to pray for the sinner without naming or declaring the sinne or the sinner Art 5. The second Sunday the sinner shall be named and not the sinne the third Sunday the sinner shall be named and the sinne declared and he excommunicated which shall so continue as long as he remaineth rebellious Art 6. Those which are excommunicated are rejected of the Church that they ought not to be admitted either to publick prayers or unto the preaching of the Word Art 7. If any having publick charge in the Church shall commit any fault which in a private person meriteth publick