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A32989	Constitutions and canons ecclesiastical treated upon by the Bishop of London, president of the convocation for the province of Canterbury, and the rest of the bishops and clergy of the said province, and agreed upon with the King's Majesty's licence in their synod begun at London Anno Domini 1603, and in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord James, by the grace of God, King of England, France, and Ireland the first, and of Scotland the thirty seventh : and now published for the due observation of them, by His Majesty's authority, under the great seal of England.	Church of England.; Bancroft, Richard, 1544-1610.	1678 (1678)	Wing C4101; ESTC R40829	53,888	80

God's Laws owe most Loyalty and Obedience afore and above all other Powers and Potentates in Earth II. Impugners of the King's Supremacy censured WHosoever shall hereafter affirm That the King's Majesty hath not the same Authority in Causes Ecclesiastical that the godly Kings had amongst the Jews and Christian Emperours of the Primitive Church or impeach any part of His Regal Supremacy in the said Causes restored to the Crown and by the Laws of this Realm therein established Let him be Excommunicated ipso facto and not restored but only by the Archbishop after his Repentance and Publick Revocation of those his wicked Errors III. The Church of England a true and Apostolical Church WHosoever shall hereafter affirm That the Church of England by Law established under the King's Majesty is not a true and an Apostolical Church teaching and maintaining the Doctrine of the Apostles Let him be Excommunicated ipso facto and not restored but only by the Archbishop after his Repentance and Publick Revocation of this his wicked Errour IV. Impugners of the Publick Worship of God established in the Church of England censured WHosoever shall hereafter affim That the Form of God's Worship in the Church of England established by Law and contained in the Book of Common Prayer and Administration of Sacraments is a corrupt superstitious or unlawful Worship of God or containeth any thing in it that is repugnant to the Scriptures Let him be Excommunicated ipso facto and not restored but by the Bishop of the Place or Archbishop after his Repentance and Publick Revocation of such his wicked Errors V. Impugners of the Articles of Religion established in the Church of England censured WHosoever shall hereafter affirm That any of the Nine and thirty Articles agreed upon by the Archbishops and Bishops of both Provinces and the whole Clergy in the Convocation holden at London in the Year of our Lord God One thousand five hundred sixty two for avoiding diversities of Opinions and for the establishing of Consent touching true Religion are in any part superstitious or erroneous or such as he may not with a good Conscience subscribe unto Let him be Excommunicated ipso facto and not restored but only by the Archbishop after his Repentance and publick Revocation of such his wicked Errors VI. Impugners of the Rites and Ceremonies established in the Church of England censured WHosoever shall hereafter affirm That the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England by Law established are wicked Antichristian or superstitious or such as being commanded by lawful Authority men who are zealously and godly affected may not with any good Conscience approve them use them or as occasion requireth subscribe unto them Let him be Excommunicated ipso facto and not restored until he repent and publickly revoke such his wicked Errors VII Impugners of the Government of the Church of England by Archbishops Bishops c. censured WHosoever shall hereafter affirm that the Government of the Church of England under His Majesty by Archbishops Bishops Deans Archdeacons and the rest that bear Office in the same is Antichristian or repugnant to the Word of God Let him be Excommunicated ipso facto and so continue until he repent and publickly revoke such his wicked Errors VIII Impugners of the Form of consecrating and ordering Archbishops Bishops c. in the Church of England censured WHosoever shall hereafter affirm or teach That the Form and manner of making and consecrating Bishops Priests and Deacons containeth any thing in it that is repugnant to the Word of God or that they who are made Bishops Priests or Deacons in that Form are not lawfully made nor ought to be accounted either by themselves or others to be truly either Bishops Priests or Deacons until they have some other calling to those Divine Offices Let him be Excommunicated ipso facto not to be restored until he repent and publickly revoke such his wicked Errors IX Authors of Schism in the Church of England censured WHosoever shall hereafter separate themselves from the Communion of Saints as it is approved by the Apostles Rules in the Church of England and combine themselves together in a new Brother-hood accompting the Christians who are conformable to the Doctrine Government Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England to be prophane and unmeet for them to joyn with in Christian Profession Let them be Excommunicated ipso facto and not restored but by the Archbishop after their Repentance and Publick Revocation of such their wicked Errors X. Maintainers of Schismaticks in the Church of England censured WHosoever shall hereafter affirm That such Ministers as refuse to subscribe to the Form and manner of God's Worship in the Church of England prescribed in the Communion Book and their Adherents may truly take unto them the Name of another Church not established by Law and dare presume to publish it That this their pretended Church hath of long time groaned under the Burthen of certain Grievances imposed upon it and upon the Members thereof before mentioned by the Church of England and the Orders and Constitutions therein by Law established Let them be Excommunicated and not restored until they repent and pulickly revoke such their wicked Errors XI Maintainers of Conventicles censured WHosoever shall hereafter affirm or maintain That there are within this Realm other Meetings Assemblies or Congregations of the King 's born Subjects than such as by the Laws of this Land are held and allowed which may rightly challenge to themselves the Name of True and Lawful Churches Let him be Excommunicated and not restored but by the Archbishop after his Repentance and Publick Revocation of such his wicked Errors XII Maintainers of Constitutions made in Conventicles censured WHosoever shall hereafter affirm That it is lawful for any sort of Ministers and Lay-persons or of either of them to joyn together and make Rules Orders or Constitutions in Causes Ecclesiastical without the King's Authority and shall submit themselves to be ruled and governed by them Let them be Excommunicated ipso facto and not be restored until they repent and publickly revoke those their wicked and Anabaptistical Errors Of Divine Service and Administration of the SACRAMENTS XIII Due Celebration of Sundays and Holy-days ALL manner of Persons within the Church of England shall from henceforth celebrate and keep the Lord's Day commonly called Sunday and other Holy-days according to God's Holy Will and Pleasure and the Orders of the Church of England prescribed in that behalf that is in hearing the Word of God read and taught in private and publick Prayers in acknowledging their Offences to God and amendment of the same in reconciling themselves charitably to their Neighbours where displeasure hath been in oftentimes receiving the Communion of the Body and Blood of Christ in visiting of the poor and Sick using all godly and sober Conversation XIV The prescript Form of Divine Service to be used on Sundays and Holy-days THE Common Prayer shall be said or sung

of Common Prayer that is brought to the Church to him upon Sundays or Holydays to be Christened or to Bury any Corps that is brought to the Church or Church-Yard convcnient Warning being given him thereof before in such manner and Form as is prescribed in the said Book of Common Prayer And if he shall refuse to Christen the one or Bury the other except the Party deceased were denounced Excommunicated Majori Excommunicatione for some grievous and notorious Crime and no man able to testifie of his Repentance he shall be suspended by the Bishop of the Diocess from his Ministery by the space of three months LXIX Ministers not to defer Christening if the Child be in Danger IF any Minister being duly without any manner of Collusion informed of the Weakness and Danger of Death of any Infant unbaptized in his Parish and thereupon desired to go or come to the Place where the said Infant remaineth to Baptize the same shall either wilfully refuse so to do or of Purpose or of gross Negligence shall so defer the time as when he might conveniently have resorted to the Place and have Baptized the said Infant it dieth through such his Default unbaptized the said Minister shall be suspended for three months and before his restitution shall acknowledge his Fault and promise before his Ordinary that he will not wittingly incur the like again Provided that where there is a Curate or a Substitute this Constitution shall not extend to the Parson or Vicar himself but to the Curate or Substitute present LXX Ministers to keep a Register of Christenings Weddings and Burials IN every Parish Church and Chapel within this Realm shall be provided one Parchment Book at the Charge of the Parish wherein shall be written the day and year of every Christening Wedding and Burial which have been in that Parish since the time that the Law was first made in that behalf so far as the ancient Books thereof can be procured but especially since the beginning of the Reign of the late Queen And for the safe keeping of the said Book the Church-wardens at the Charge of the Parish shall provide one sure Coffer with three Locks and Keys whereof the one to remain with the Minister and the other two with the Church-wardens severally so that neither the Minister without the two Church-wardens nor the Church-wardens without the Minister shall at any time take that Book out of the said Coffer And henceforth upon every Sabbath day immediately after Morning or Evening Prayer the Minister and Church-wardens shall take the said Parchment Book out of the said Coffer and the Minister in the presence of the Church-wardens shall Write and Record in the said Book the Names of all Persons Christened together with the Names and Surnames of their Parents and also the Names of all Persons Married and Buried in that Parish in the Week before and the day and year of every such Christening Marriage and Burial And that done they shall lay up that Book in the Coffer as before And the Minister and Church-wardens unto every Page of that Book when it shall be filled with such Inscriptions shall subscribe their Names And the Church-wardens shall once every year within one Month after the five and twentieth day of March transmit unto the Bishop of the Diocess or his Chancellor a true Copy of the Names of all Persons Christened Married or Buried in their Parish in the year before ended the said five and twentieth day of March and the certain days and months in which every such Christening Marriage and Burial was had to be subscribed with the Hands of the said Minister and Church-wardens to the end the same may faithfully be preserved in the Registry of the said Bishop which Certificate shall be received without Fee And if the Minister or Church-wardens shall be negligent in performance of any thing herein contained it shall be lawful for the Bishop or his Chancellor to convent them and proceed against every of them as contemners of this our Constitution LXXI Ministers not to preach or administer the Communion in Private Houses NO Minister shall Prench or Administer the holy Communion in any private House except it be in times of necessity when any being either so impotent as he cannot go to the Church or very dangerously sick are desirous to be Partakers of the holy Sacrament upon pain of Suspension for the first Offence and Excommunication for the second Provided that Houses are here reputed for Private Houses wherein are no Chapels dedicated and allowed by the Ecclesiastical Laws of this Realm And provided also under the pains before expressed that no Chaplains do Preach or Administer the Communion in any other places but in the Chapels of the said Houses and that also they do the same very seldom upon Sundays and Holy-days So that both the Lords and Masters of the said Houses and their Families shall at other times resort to their own Parish Churches and there receive the holy Communion at the least once every year LXXII Ministers not to appoint publick or private Fasts or Prophesies or to Exercise but by Authority NO Minister or Ministers shall without the Licence and Direction of the Bishop of the Diocess first obtained and had under his Hand and Seal appoint or keep any solemn Fasts either publickly or in any private Houses other than such as by Law are or by publick Authority shall be appointed nor shall be wittingly present at any of them under pain of Suspension for the first Fault of Excommunication for the second and of Deposition from the Ministery for the third Neither shall any Minister not Licensed as is aforesaid presume to appoint or hold any Meetings for Sermons commonly termed by some Prophesies or Exercises in Market-Towns or other places under the said Pains Nor without such Licence to attempt upon any Pretence whatsoever either of Possession or Obsession by Fasting and Prayer to cast out any Devil or Devils under pain of the Imputation of Imposture or Cozenage and Deposition from the Ministery LXXIII Ministers not to hold private Conventicles Forasmuch as all conventicles and secret Meetings of Priests and Ministers have been ever justly accounted very hurtful to the State of the Church wherein they live We do now Ordain and Constitute That no Priests or Ministers of the word of God nor any other Persons shall meet together in any private House or elsewhere to consult upon any matter or course to be taken by them or upon their motion or direction by any other which may any way tend to the Impeaching or Depraving of the Doctrine of the Church of England or of the Book of Common Prayer or any part of the Government and Discipline now established in the Church of England under pain of Excommunication ipso facto LXXIV Decency in Apparel enjoyned to Ministers THE true ancient and flourishing Churches of Christ being ever desirous that their Prelacy and Clergy might be had as well

a reverend Estimation even in the Apostle's times for ought that is known to the contrary of the Sign of the Cross which the Christians shortly after used in all their Actions thereby making an outward shew and profession even to the Astonishment of the Jews That they were not ashamed to acknowledge him for their Lord and Saviour who died for them upon the Cross. And this Sign they did not only use themselves with a kind of glory when they met with any Jews but Signed therewith their Children when they were Christened to dedicate them by that badge to his Service whose Benefits bestowed upon them in Baptism the name of the Cross did represent And this use of the Sign of the Cross in Baptism was held in the Primitive Church as well by the Greeks as the Latins with one consent and great applause At what time if any had opposed themselves against it they would certainly have been censured as Enemies of the Name of the Cross and consequently of Christ's Merits the Sign whereof they could no better endure This continual and general use of the Sign of the Cross is evident by many Testimonies of the Ancient Fathers Thirdly It must be confessed that in process of Time the Sign of the Cross was greatly abused in the Church of Rome especially after that corruption of Popery had once possessed it But the abuse of a thing doth not take away the lawful use of it Nay so far was it from the purpose of the Church of England to forsake and reject the Churches of Italy France Spain Germany or any such like Churches in all things which they held and practised that as the Apology of the Church of England confesseth it doth with reverence retain those Ceremoni●s which do neither endamage the Church of God nor offend the minds of sober men and only departed from them in those particular Points wherein they were fallen both from themselves in their Ancient Integrity and from the Apostolical Churches which were their first Founders In which respect amongst some other very Ancient Ceremonies the Sign of the Cross in Baptism hath been retained in this Church both by the Judgment and Practice of those reverend Fathers and great Divines in the Days of King Edward the Sixth of whom some constantly suffered for the Profession of the Truth and others being exiled in the time of Queen Mary did after their return in the beginning of the Reign of our late Dread Sovereign continually defend and use the same This Resolution and Practice of our Church hath been allowed and approved by the censure upon the Communion Book in King Edward the Sixth his Days and by the Harmony of Confessions of later Years because indeed the use of this Sign in Baptism was ever accompanied here with such sufficient Cautions and Exceptions against all Popish Superstition and Error as in the like Cases are either fit or convenient First The Church of England since the abolishing of Popery hath ever held and taught and so doth hold and teach still That the Sign of the Cross used in Baptism is no part of the Substance of that Sacrament For when the Minister dipping the Infant in Water or laying Water upon the face of it as the manner also is hath pronounced these Words I baptize thee in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost the Infant is fully and perfectly Baptized So as the Sign of the Cross being afterwards used doth neither add any thing to the virtue and perfection of Baptism nor being omitted doth detract any thing from the Effect and Substance of it Secondly It is apparent in the Communion-Book that the Infant Baptized is by virtue of Baptism before it be Signed with the Sign of the Cross received into the Congregation of Christ's Flock as a perfect Member thereof and not by any power ascribed unto the Sign of the Cross. So that for the very remembrance of the Cross which is very precious to all them that rightly believe in Jesu Christ and in the other respects mentioned the Church of England hath retained still the Sign of it in Baptism following therein the Primitive and Apostolical Churches and accounting it a lawful outward Ceremony and honourable Badge whereby the Infant is dedicated to the Service of him that died upon the Cross as by the Words used in the Book of Common Prayer it may appear Lastly The use of the Sign of the Cross in Baptism being thus purged from all Popish Superstition and Error and reduced in the Church of England to the primary Institution of it upon those true Rules of Doctrine concerning things indifferent which are consonant to the Word of God and the Judgments of all the Ancient Fathers we hold it the part of every private man both Minister and other reverently to retain the true use of it prescribed by Publick Authority considering that things of themselves indifferent do in some sort alter their Natures when they are either commanded or forbidden by a lawful Magistrate and may not be omitted at every man's pleasure contrary to the Law when they be commanded nor used when they are prohibited Ministers their Ordination Function and Charge XXXI Four Solemn Times appointed for the making of Ministers FOrasmuch as the Ancient Fathers of the Church led by Example of the Apostles appointed Prayers and Fasts to be used at the Solemn ordering of Ministers and to that purpose allotted certain times in which only Sacred Orders might be given or conferred We following their holy and religious Example do constitute and decree That no Deacons or Ministers be made and ordained but only upon the Sundays immediately following Jejunia quatuor temporum commonly called Ember-weeks appointed in Ancient time for Prayer and Fasting purposely for this cause at their first Institution and so continued at this Day in the Church of England And that this be done in the Cathedral or Parish-Church where the Bishop resideth and in the time of Divine Service in the presence not only of the Arch-deacon but of the Dean and two Prebendaries at the least or if they shall happen by any lawful cause to be lett or hindred in the presence of four other grave Persons being Masters of Arts at the least and allowed for Publick Preachers XXXII None to be made Deacon and Minister both in one Day THE Office of Deacon being a step or degree to the Ministery according to the Judgment of the Ancient Fathers and the Practice of the Primitive Church We do ordain and appoint That hereafter no Bishop shall make any Person of what qualities or gifts soever a Deacon and a Minister both together upon one day but that the order in that behalf prescribed in the Book of making and consecrating Bishops Priests and Deacons be strictly observed Not that always every Deacon should be kept from the Ministery for a whole Year when the Bishop shall find good cause to the contrary but that there being

Law requireth their Presence there to discharge their Duties according to the Laws in that Case provided And the Bishop of the Diocess shall see the same to be duly performed and put in Execution XLV Beneficed Preachers being Resident upon their Livings to Preach every Sunday EVery Beneficed man allowed to be a Preacher and residing on his Benefice having no lawful Impediment shall in his own Cure or in some other Church or Chappel where he may conveniently near adjoyning where no Preacher is preach one Sermon every Sunday of the Year wherein he shall soberly and sincerely divide the Word of Truth to the glory of God and to the best Edification of the People XLVI Beneficed men not Preachers to procure monthly Sermons EVery Beneficed man not allowed to be a Preacher shall procure Sermons to be Preached in his Cure once in every Month at the least by Preachers lawfully Licensed if his Living in the Judgment of the Ordinary will be able to bear it And upon every Sunday when there shall not be a Sermon preached in his Cure he or his Curate shall read some one of the Homilies prescribed or to be prescribed by Authority to the intents aforesaid XLVII Absence of Beneficed men to be supplied by Curates that are allowed Preachers EVery Beneficed man Licensed by the Laws of this Realm upon urgent Occasions of other Service not to reside upon his Benefice shall cause his Cure to be supplied by a Curate that is a sufficient and Licensed Preacher if the worth of the Benefice will bear it But whosoever hath two Benefices shall maintain a Preacher Licensed in the Benefice where he doth not reside except he preach himself at both of them usually XLVIII None to be Curates but allowed by the Bishop NO Curate or Minister shall be permitted to serve in any Place without Examination and Admission of the Bishop of the Diocess or Ordinary of the Place having Episcopal Jurissdiction in Writing under his Hand and Seal having respect to the greatness of the Cure and meetness of the Party And the said Curates and Ministers if they remove from one Diocess to another shall not be by any means admitted to serve without Testimony of the Bishop of the Diocess or Ordinary of the Place as aforesaid whence they came in Writing of their Honesty Ability and Conformity to the Ecclesiastical Laws of the Church of England Nor any shall serve more than one Church or Chapel upon one day Except that Chapel be a Member of the Parish Church or united thereunto and unless the said Church or Chapel where such a Minister shall serve in two places be not able in the Judgment of the Bishop or Ordinary as aforesaid to maintain a Curate XLIX Ministers not allowed Preachers may not Expound NO Person whatsoever not examined and approved by the Bishop of the Diocess or not Licensed as is aforesaid for a sufficient or convenient Preacher shall take upon him to Expound in his own Cure or elsewhere any Scripture or matter of Doctrine but shall only study to read plainly and aptly without glossing or adding the Homilies already set forth or hereafter to be published by Lawful Authority for the Confirmation of the true Faith and for the good Instruction and Edification of the People L. Strangers not admitted to Preach without shewing their Licence NEither the Minister Church wardens nor any other Officers of the Church shall suffer any man to preach within their Churches or Chapels but such as by shewing their Licence to Preach shall appear unto them to be sufficiently authorized thereunto as is aforesaid LI. Strangers not admitted to Preach in Cathedral Churches without sufficient Authority THE Deans Presidents and Residentiaries of any Cathedral or Collegiate Church shall suffer no Stranger to Preach unto the People in their Churches except they be allowed by the Archbishop of the Province or by the Bishop of the same Diocess or by either of the Universities And if any in his Sermon shall publish any Doctrine either strange or disagreeing from the Word of God or from any of the Articles of Religion agreed upon in the Convocation House Anno 1562. or from the Book of Common Prayers the Dean or the Residents shall by their Letters subscribed with some of their Hands that heard him so soon as may be give notice of the same to the Bishop of the Diocess that he may determine the Matter and take such Order therein as he shall think convenient LII The Names of Strange Preachers to be noted in a Book THAT the Bishop may understand if Occasion so require what Sermons are made in every Church of his Diocess and who presume to preach without Licence the Church-wardens and Side-men shall see that the Names of all Preachers which come to their Church from any other Place be noted in a Book which they shall have ready for that Purpose wherein every Preacher shall subscribe his Name the Day wherein he preached and the Name of the Bishop of whom he had Licence to Preach LIII No Publick Opposition between Preachers IF any Preacher shall in the Pulpit particularly or namely of purpose impugn or confute any Doctrine delivered by any other Preacher in the same Church or in any Church near adjoyning before he hath acquainted the Bishop of the Diocess therewith and received Order what to do in that Case because upon such publick and Dissenting and contradicting there may grow much Offence and Disquietness unto the People the Church-wardens or Party grieved shall forthwith signifie the same to the said Bishop and not suffer the said Preacher any more to occupy that place which he hath once abused except he faithfully promise to forbear all such matter of Contention in the Church until the Bishop hath taken further Order therein who shall with all convenient Speed so proceed therein that publick Satisfaction may be made in the Congregation where the Offence was given Provided That if either of the Parties Offending do appeal he shall not be suffered to preach pendentelite LIV. The Licences of Preachers refusing Conformity to be void IF any man Licensed heretofore to Preach by any Archbishop Bishop or by either of the Universities shall at any time from henceforth refuse to conform himself to the Laws Ordinances and Rites Ecclesiastical established in the Church of England he shall be admonished by the Bishop of the Diocess or Ordinary of the Place to submit himself to the Use and due Exercise of the same And if after such Admonition he do not conform himself within the space of one Month We determine and decree That the Licence of every such Preacher shall thereupon be utterly void and of none effect LV. The Form of a Prayer to be used by all Preachers before their Sermons BEfore all Sermons Lectures and Homilies the Preachers and Ministers shall move the People to joyn with them in Prayer in this Form or to this effect as briefly as conveniently they may Ye shall