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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

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 LONDON Printed for Samuel Mearne Stationer to the King 's most Excellent Majesty and Robert Pawlet 1678. JAMES by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To all to whom these Presents shall come Greeting Whereas our Bishops Deans of our Cathedral Churches Archdeacons Chapters and Colledges and the other Clergy of every Diocess within the Province of Canterbury being summoned and called by Virtue of our Writ directed to the most Reverend Father in God John late Archbishop of Canterbury and bearing Date the 31. Day of January in the First Year of Our Reign of England France and Ireland and of Scotland the 37. to have appeared before him in our Cathedral Church of St. Paul in London the 20. Day of March then next ensuing or elsewhere as he should have thought it most convenient to treat consent and conclude upon certain difficult and urgent Affairs mentioned in the said Writ Did thereupon at the time appointed and within the Cathedral Church of St. Paul aforesaid assemble themselves and appear in Convocation for that purpose according to Our said Writ before the Right Reverend Father in God Richard Bishop of London duly upon a second Writ of Ours dated the 9. Day of March aforesaid authorized appointed and constituted by reason of the said Archbishop of Canterbury his Death President of the said Convocation to execute those things which by Virtue of Our first Writ did appertain to him the said Archbishop to have executed if he had lived We for divers urgent and weighty Causes and Considerations Us thereunto especially moving of Our especial Grace certain Knowledge and meer Motion did by Virtue of our Prerogative Royal and Supreme Authority in Causes Ecclsieastical give and grant by Our several Letters Patents under Our Great Seal of England the one dated the 12. Day of April last past and the other the 25. Day of June then next following full free and lawful Liberty Licence Power and Authority unto the said Bishop of London President of the said Convocation and to the other Bishops Deans Archdeacons Chapters and Colledges and the rest of the Clergy before mentioned of the said Province That they from time to time during Our first Parliament now Prorogued might confer treat debate consider consult and agree of and upon such Canons Orders Ordinances and Constitutions as they should think necessary fit and convenient for the Honour and Service of Almighty God the good and quiet of the Church and the better Government thereof to be from time to time observed performed fulfilled and kept as well by the Archbishops of Canterbury the Bishops and their Successors and the rest of the whole Clergy of the said Province of Canterbury in their several Callings Offices Functions Ministeries Degrees and Administrations as also by all and every Dean of the Arches and other Iudge of the said Archbishop's Courts Guardians of Spiritualties Chancellors Deans and Chapters Archdeacons Commissaries Officials Registers and all and every other Ecclesiastical Officers and their inferiour Ministers whatsoever of the same Province of Canterbury in their and every of their distinct Courts and in the order and manner of their and every of their Proceedings and by all other Persons within this Realm as far as lawfully being Members of the Church it may concern them as in our said Letters Patents amongst other Clauses more at large doth appear Forasmuch as the Bishop of London President of the said Convocation and others the said Bishops Deans Archdeacons Chapters and Colledges with the rest of the Clergy having met together at the time and place before mentioned and then and there by Virtue of Our said Authority granted unto them treated of concluded and agreed upon certain Canons Orders Ordinances and Constitutions to the end and purpose by Us limited and prescribed unto them and have thereupon offered and presented the same unto Us most humbly desiring Us to give Our Royal Assent unto their said Canons Orders Ordinances and Constitutions according to the Form of a certain Statute or Act of Parliament made in that behalf in the 25. Year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth and by Our said Prerogative Royal and Supreme Authority in Causes Ecclesiastical to ratifie by Our Letters Patents under Our Great Seal of England and to confirm the same the Title and Tenour of them being word for word as ensueth 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 Dom. 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 Of the Church of ENGLAND I. The King's Supremacy over the Church of England in Causes Ecclesiastical to be maintained AS our Duty to the King 's most Excellent Majesty requireth We first decree and ordain That the Archbishop of Canterbury from time to time all Bishops of this Province all Deans Archdeacons Parsons Vicars and all other Ecclesiastical Persons shall faithfully keep and observe and as much as in them lieth shall cause to be observed and kept of others all and singular Laws and Statutes made for restoring to the Crown of this Kingdom the Ancient Jurisdiction over the State Ecclesiastical and abolishing of all Foreign Power repugnant to the same Furthermore all Ecclesiastical Persons having Cure of Souls and all other Preachers and Readers of Divinity Lectures shall to the uttermost of their Wit Knowledge and Learning purely and sincerely without any colour or dissimulation teach manifest open and declare four times every Year at the least in their Sermons and other Collations and Lectures That all usurped and Foreign Power forasmuch as the same hath no Establishment nor ground by the Law of God is for most just Causes taken away and abolished and that therefore no manner of Obedience or Subjection within His Majesty's Realms and Dominions is due unto any such Foreign Power but that the King's Power within His Realms of England Scotland and Ireland and all other His Dominions and Countries is the Highest Power under God to whom all men as well Inhabitants as born within the same do by 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

pray for Christ's holy Catholick Church that is for the whole Congregation of Christian People dispersed throughout the whole World and especially for the Churches of England Scotland and Ireland And herein I require you most especially to pray for the Kings most excellent Majesty our Soveraingn Lord IAMES King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith and Supream Governor in these his Realms and all other his Dominions and Countreys over all Persons in all Causes as well Ecclesiastical as Temporal Ye shall also pray for our gracious Queen Anne the Noble Prince HENRY and the rest of the King and Queens Royal Issue Ye shall also pray for the Ministers of Gods holy Word and Sacraments as well Archbishops and Bishops as other Pastors and Curates Ye shall also pray for the Kings most honourable Council and for all the Nobility and Magistrates of this Realm that all and every of these in their several Callings may serve truly and painfully to the glory of God and the edifying and well governing of his People remembring the Account that they must make Also ye shall pray for the whole Commons of this Realm that they may live in the true Faith and Fear of God in humble Obedience to the King and Brotherly Charity one to another Finally let us praise God for all those which are departed out of this Life in the Faith of Christ and pray unto God that we may have Grace to direct our Lives after their good Example that this life ended we may be made Partakers with them of the glorious Resurrection in the Life everlasting always concluding with the Lord's Prayer LVI Preachers and Lecturers to read Divine Service and administer the Sacraments twice a year at the least EVery Minister being possessed of a Benefice that hath Cure and Charge of Souls although he chiefly attend to Preaching and hath a Curate under him to execute the other Duties which are to be performed for him in the Church and likewise every other stipendiary Preacher that readeth any Lecture or catechiseth or preacheth in any Church or Chappel shall twice at the least every year read himself the Divine Service upon two several Sundays publickly and at the usual times both in the Fore-noon and After-noon in the Church which he so possesseth or where he Readeth Catechiseth or Preacheth as is aforesaid and shall likewise as often in every year administer the Sacraments of Baptism if there be any to be baptized and of the Lords Supper in such Manner and Form and with the Observation of all such Rites and Ceremonies as are prescribed by the Book of Common-Prayer in that behalf which if he do not accordingly perform then shall he that is possessed of a Benefice as before be suspended and he that is but a Reader Preacher or Catechiser be removed from his Place by the Bishop of the Diocess until he or they shall submit themselves to perform all the said Duties in such manner and sort as before is prescribed LVII The Sacraments not to be refused at the hands of unpreaching Ministers WHereas divers Persons seduced by false Teachers do refuse to have their Children baptized by a Minister that is no Preacher and to receive the Holy Communion at his hands in the same respect as though the Vertue of those Sacraments did depend upon his Ability to preach Forasmuch as the Doctrine both of Baptism and of the Lord's Supper is so sufficiently set down in the Book of Common-Prayer to be used at the Administration of the said Sacraments as nothing can be added unto it that is material or necessary We do require and charge every such Person seduced as aforesaid to reform that their Wilfulness and to submit himself to the Order of the Church in that behalf both the said Sacraments being equally effectual whether they be ministred by a Minister that is no Preacher or by one that is a Preacher And if any hereafter shall offend herein or leave their own Parish Churches in that respect and communicate or cause their Children to be baptized in other Parishes abroad and will not be moved thereby to reform that their Error and unlawful Course Let them be presented to the Ordinary of the place by the Minister Church-wardens and Side-men or Quest-men of the Parishes where they dwell and there receive such punishment by Ecclesiastical Censures as such Obstinacy doth worthily deserve that is Let them persisting in their wilfulness be suspended and then after a months further Obstinacy excommunicated And likewise if any Parson Vicar or Curate shall after the publishing hereof either receive to the Communion any such persons which are not of his own Church and Parish or shall baptize any of their Children thereby strengthening them in their said Errors Let him be suspended and not released thereof until he do faithfully Promise that he will not afterwards offend therein LVIII Ministers reading Divine Service and administring the Sacraments to wear Surplices and Graduates therewithal Hoods EVery Minister saying the publick Prayers or ministring the Sacraments or other Rites of the Church shall wear a decent and comely Surplice with Sleeves to be provided at the Charge of the Parish And if any question arise touching the Matter Decency or Comeliness thereof the same shall be decided by the Discretion of the Ordinary Furthermore such Ministers as are Graduates shall wear upon their Surplices at such times such Hoods as by the Orders of the Universities are agreable to their Degrees which no Minister shall wear being no Graduate under pain of Suspension Notwithstanding it shall be lawful for such Ministers as are not Graduates to wear upon their Surplices instead of Hoods some decent Tippet of black so it be not Silk LIX Ministers to catechize every Sunday EVery Parson Vicar or Curate upon every Sunday and Holy-day before Evening Prayer shall for half an hour or more examine and instruct the Youth and ignorant Persons of his Parish in the Ten Commandments the Articles of the Belief and in the Lord's Prayer and shall diligently hear instruct and teach them the Catechism set forth in the Book of Common Prayer And all Fathers Mothers Masters and Mistresses shall cause their Children Servants and Apprentices which have not learned the Catechism to come to the Church at the time appointed obediently to hear and to be ordered by the Minister until they have learned the same And if any Minister neglect his Duty herein let him be sharply reproved upon the first Complaint and true notice thereof given to the Bishop or Ordinary of the Place If after submitting himself he shall willingly offend therein again let him be suspended If so the third time there being little hope that he will be therein reformed then excommunicated and so remain until he will be reformed And likewise if any of the said Fathers Mothers Masters or Mistresses Children Servants or Apprentices shall neglect their Duties as the one sort in not causing them to come