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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43547	Parliaments power in lawes for religion, or, An ansvvere to that old and groundles [sic] calumny of the papists, nick-naming the religion of the Church of England, by the name of a parliamentary-religion sent to a friend who was troubled at it, and earnestly desired satisfaction in it.	Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.	1645 (1645)	Wing H1730; ESTC R200234	30,417	44

of the usuall Ceremonies and the fire of Purgatory they differ'd very much from those opinions which had beene formerly received in the Church of Rome as you may partly see by that extract of them which occurres in Fox his Acts and Monuments vol. 2. fol. 1246. For the confirming of which booke and recommending it to the use of the people his Majesty was pleased in the Injunctions of the yeare 1536. to give command To all Deanes Parsons Vicars and Curats so to open and declare in their Sermons and other Collations the said Articles unto them which be under their Cure that they might plainly know and discerne which of them be necessary to be beleeved and observed for their salvation and which doe only concerne the Decent and politique Order of the Church And this he did upon this ground that the said Articles had beene concluded and condiscended upon by the Prelates and Clergy of the Realme in their Convocation as appeareth in the very words of the Injunction for which see Fox his Acts and Monuments fol. 1247. I finde not any thing in Parliament which relates to this either to countenance the worke or to require obedience and conformity from the hands of the people And to say truth neither the King nor Clergy did account it necessary but thought their owne authority sufficient to goe through with it though certainly it was more necessary at that time then in any since the power and reputation of the Clergy being under foot the King scarce setled in the Supremacy so lately recognized unto him and therfore the authority of the Parliament of more use than afterward in times well ballanced and established 'T is true that in some other yeares of that Princes Reigne we finde some use and mention of an Act of Parliament in matters which concern'd Religion but in was only in such times when the hopes of Reformation were in the wane and the worke went retrograde For in the yeare 1539. being the 31 H. 8. When the Lord Cromwel's power began to decline and the King was in a necessitie of compliance with his neighbouring Princes there passed an Act of Parliament commonly called the Statute of the six Articles or the whip with six stringes In which it was enacted That whosoever by word or writing should preach teach or publish that in the blessed Sacrament of the Altar under forme of bread and wine there is not really the naturall Body and Blood of our Saviour Jesus Christ conceived of the virgin Mary or affirme otherwise thereof then was maintained and taught in the Church of Rome should be adjudged an Heretick and suffer death by burning and forfeit all his Lands and Goods as in case of high Treason Secondly that Whosoever should teach or preach that the Communion of the blessed Sacrament in both kindes is necessary for the health of mans Soule and ought so to be ministred Thirdly or that any man after the Order of Priest-hood received might marry or contract matrimony Fourthly or that any woman which had vowed and professed chastity might contract marriage Fifthly or that private Masse were not lawfull and laudable and agreeable to the word of God Or sixthly that Auricular Confession was not necessary and expedient to be used in the Church of God should suffer death and forfeit Lands and Goods as a felon 31 of H. 8. c 14. The rigour of which terrible Statute was shortly after mitigated in the said Kings Reigne 32. H. 8. c 10. and 35. of H. 8. c. 5. and the whole Statute absolutely repealed by Act of Parliament 1. Ed. 6. c. 12. But then it is to be observed first that this Parliament of King Henry the Eighth did not determine any thing in those six points of Doctrine which are therein recited but only tooke upon them to devise a course for the suppressing of the contrary opinions by adding by the secular Power the punishment of Death and forfeiture of Lands and Goods unto the censures of the Church which were grown weake if not invalid and consequently by degrees became neglected ever since the said King Henry tooke the Headship on him and exercised the same by a Lay Vicar-Generall And secondly you must observe that it appeareth evidently by the Act it selfe that at the same time the King had called a Synod and Convocation of all the Archbishoppes Bishoppes and other learned men of the Clergy that the Articles were first deliberately and advisedly debated argued and reasoned by the said Archbishops Bishops and other learned men of the Clergy and their opinions in the same declared and made knowne before the matter came in Parliament and finally that being brought into the Parliament there was not any thing declared and passed as doctrinall but by the assent of the Lords spirituall and other learned men of the Convocation as by the Act it selfe doth at large appeare Finally whatsoever may be drawne from hence can be only this That King Henry did make use of his Court of Parliament for the establishing and confirming of some points of Popery which seemed to be in danger of a Reformation And this compared with the Statute of the 34. 35. prohibiting the reading of the Bible by most sorts of people doth clearely shew that the Parliaments of those times did rather hinder and retard the worke of Reformation in some especiall parts thereof than give any furtherance to the same But to proceede There was another point of Reformation begunne in the Lord Cromwel's time but not produced nor brought unto perfection till after his decease and then too not without the midwifery of an Act of Parliament For in the yeare 1537. the Bishops and others of the Clergy of the Convocation had composed a booke entituled the Institution of a Christian man which being subscribed by all their hands was by them presented to the King by his most excellent judgement to be allowed of or condemned This booke conteyning the cheife heads of Christian Religion was forth with printed and exposed to publique view But some things not being clearely explicated or otherwise subject to exception he caused it to be reviewed and to that end as Supreme Head on Earth of the Church of England I speake the very words of the Act of Parliament 32. H. 8 c. 26. appointed the Archbishops and Bishops of both Provinces and also a great number of the best learned honestest and most virtuous sort of the Doctors in Divinity men of discretion judgement and good disposition to be called together to the intent that according to the very Gospell and Law of God without any partiall respect or affection to the Papisticall sort or any other Sect or Sects whatsoever they should declare by writing and publish as well the principall Articles and Points of our Faith and Beleife with the Declaration true understanding and observation of such other expedient points as by them with his Grace's advise Counsaile and Consent shall be thought needfull and expedient As