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The Samaritan shewing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oyl that must heal the church together with the way or means to do it / by a country gentleman who goes to common-prayer and not to meetings.
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Polhill, Edward, 1622-1694?
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Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by the Authority of the same That if any Person shall without making any Interpretation of his own unless it be such as shall be allowed to be Orthodox by his Diocesan or two other Bishops Subscribe and Declare his Assent and Consent unto and Approbation of the Articles of Religion mentioned in the Statute made in the 13th Year of the late Q. Elizabeth except only the 34th 35th and 36th Articles and also except these words in the 20th Article Viz. The Church hath power to decree Rites Ceremonies Authority in Controversies of Faith in like manner as he is already Obliged to Subscribe and Declare his Assent and Consent unto and Approbation of all the said 39 Articles Every such Person shall be as capable of taking any Degree in either Vniversity or being Ordained Priest or Deacon or of being Collated Admitted or put into and to Hold and Enjoy any Ecclesiastical Benefice or Promotion as if the said Person had Subscribed and Declared his Assent and Consent unto and Approbation of all the said Articles of Religion And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Person Ordained between the Year of our Lord 1644 and the First of May in the Year 1680 according to the Form of Ordination used by laying on of hands by the Presbytery shall be as capable of any Ecclesiastical Benefice or Promotion as if he had been Ordained according to the Form of Making and Ordaining Priests and Deacons in the Church of England And that every Person Ordained only by Presbyters since the Year of our Lord 1660 shall not be admitted to any Benefice unless he receive a second Imposition of Hands from some Bishop to recommend him to the Grace of God for the Work or Exercise of his Office in the Place or Charge unto which he is call'd and the Bishop shall frame his Words accordingly And Whereas by a Statute made in the 13th and 14th Year of His Majesties Raign that now is Entituled An Act for the Uniformity of the Publick Prayer and Administration of Sacraments other Rites and Ceremonies and for Establishing the Form of Ordaining Consecrating Bishops Priests and Deacons in the Church of England there are two Declarations imposed upon several Persons and in such manner as is there specified Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Person that hereafter shall be Presented or Collated or Put into any Ecclesiastical Benefice or Promotion shall declare his unfeigned Assent and Consent to the Vse of all things contained and Prescribed in the Book of Common-Prayer nor Make and Subscribe the other Declaration or Acknowledgment Viz. I A. B. do declare That it is not Lawful to take up Arms against the King c. according to the Formes in the said Act in the 13th and 14th Year of His Majesties Reign directed and appointed but that Both the said Declarations shall be wholly Omitted any thing in the aforesaid Statute to the Contrary Notwithstanding And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Person shall hereafter be capable of being collated Admitted or put into any Ecclesiastical Benefice or Promotion before such time as the said Person shall have taken the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance which Oath of Allegiance is contained in the Statute made in the 3d Year of King James before the Bishop of the Diocess who is hereby Impowred to administer the same and shall also Make and Subscribe the Declaration mentioned in an Act of Parliament made in the 30th Year of His Majesties Reign that now is Entituled An Act to prevent Papists from Sitting in either House of Parliament And the Name of every Person so taking the Oath and Making and Subscribing the Declaration aforesaid shall be Enrolled with the Day and Time of his Taking the same in Rolls to be kept by the respective Bishop of each Diocess for that purpose And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Person shall hereafter be Obliged to take the Oath of Canonical Obedience or to make the Subscription required by the Canons or to go to the Bishop for a License to Preach being already lawfully Ordained any Statute or Custome to the contrary Notwithstanding And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from henceforth no Person whatsoever wear a Surplice during the time of Reading Common Prayer or Preaching or Performing any Religious Worship in any Church or Chappel whatsoever except only in the Chappel of the Kings Majesty and all Cathedral Churches of this Realm of England and Dominion of Wales And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from henceforth no Minister or other Ecclesiastieal Person shall be Obliged or compelled to use the Signe of the Cross in Baptism or any Parent Obliged to have his Child Christened by the Minister of the Parish if the said Minister will not use or omit the Sign of the Cross according to the Desire of the Parent who in that Case may procure some other Minister to do it Nor shall the Child of any Person be refused Baptism for want of Godfathers and Godmothers so long as the Parent is present to fill their place And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Minister or Ecclesiastical Person that shall Officiate in the Administration of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper shall refuse it to any Person that desires to be admitted to the same although such Person shall not use the Gesture of Kneeling in the Act of Receiving nor come up to the Communion Table but shall go to such Convenient Place in the Church where such Person is and there give it him in some other decent Gesture of Ordinary use in the Reformed Churches Nor shall any Minister be troubled for the withholding his own Act in delivery of the Sacrament from any whom he Judges notoriously unworthy or unfit for it Nor for suspending his reading the Sentence of Excommunication against any of his Parish until he be satisfied in the Case that his crime deserves it And to the intent that Vniformity may so far as it is needful and so far as it can be still maintained Be it enacted Moreover by the Authority aforesaid That every Parson Vicar and Lecturer shall conform to the Liturgy of the Church in the Ordinary Lords-day Service reading the same by himself or by his Curate as by Law it is Established Reserving a Necessary and Just Liberty for his Conscience in any Matter or Words which himself esteems unlawful and so to him it is sin in the By-Offices Occasional Service the Rubricks and otherwise and also for Prudence in the whole Mannagement to Act with respect to Time Place and Circumstances so as appeares most conducive to Edification And so long as the main Body of the Service appointed is there Read and the Substance of
the Offices 〈◊〉 there performed he shall not be Punishable for any Breach otherwise of the Acts of Vniformity any thing in the said Statutes to the Contrary notwithstanding THE Bill for Indulgence FOrasmuch as Some Ease to Tender Consciences in the Exercise of Religion may be an Effectual Means to Unite His Majesties Protestant Subjects in Interest and Affection which is highly necessary in this time of Eminent Danger from the common Enemy the Papists Be it Enacted By the Kings Most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled That neither the Statute made in the 23d Year of the Reign of the Late Queen Elizabeth Entituled An Act to retain the Queens Majesties Subjects in their due Obedience Nor the Statute made in the Twenty Eighth Year of the said Queen Entituled An Act for the more speedy and due Execution of certain Branches of the Statute made in the Twenty Third Year of the Queens Majesties REIGN Videlicet the aforesaid Act Nor Statute made in the Third Year of the Reign of the Late King James Entituled An Act to prevent and avoid dangers which may grow by Popish Recusants Nor any other Law or Statute of this Realm made against Popish Recusants shall be construed to Extend to any Person or Persons Dissenting from the Church of England that shall being lawfully required take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy which Oath of Allegiance is contained in a Statute made in the Third Year of the Late King James and make and Subscribe the Declaration mentioned in a Statute made in the Twentieth Year of His Majesties Reign that now is Entituled An Act to prevent Papists from Sitting in either House of Parliament And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Person and Persons already Convicted or Prosecuted in Order to Conviction of Recusancy by Indictment Information Action of Debt or otherwise grounded upon the aforesaid Statutes or any of them that shall take the said Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and make and Subscribe the aforesaid Declaration in the Court of Exchequer or Assizes or General or Quarter Sessions to be held for the County where such Person lives and to be thence respectively certified into the Exchequer shall be thenceforth discharged from all the Penalties Seizures and Forfeitures incurred by force of any the aforesaid Statutes without any Composition Fee or further Charge whatsoever And be it further Enacted By the Authority aforesaid that all and every Person and Persons that being lawfully required shall take the said Oaths and make and subscribe the Declaration aforesaid shall not be liable to any Pains Penalties or Forfeitures mentioned in an Act made the Thirty Fifth Year of the late Queen Elizabeth Entituled An Act to retain the Queens Majesties Subjects in their due Obedience Nor in an Act made in the Twenty Second Year of His Majesty that now is Entituled An Act to prevent and suppress Seditions Conventicles Nor shall any of the said Persons be Prosecuted in any Ecclesiastical COURT for or by reason of their Non-conforming to the CHURCH of ENGLAND The Bill proceeds next to a Proviso That the Doors be not Locked Barred or Bolted where there are Meetings Then to the Relieving Constables Church-Wardens and the like Officers that Scruple the Oaths that be long to those Offices by admitting a Deputy Then to the Repealing the Oxford Act or Releasing the Penalty to all such as shall take the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and Subscribe to the Declaration aforesaid and the Doctrinal Articles of the Church of England with the exceptions of the former Bill Upon the same Terms Liberty is granted to any Person to teach a School or be a Tutor in a Private Family It Proceeds to giving Ease upon the same to Dissenting Protestants who Scruple the Baptizing Infants Then to the Easing other Persons who scruple Taking all Oaths whom it shall suffice to say That J. A. B. Acknowledge Profess and Testify instead of J. A. B. Swear That c. According to the Words of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy Then there is an Excellent Proviso That no Persons who do not go upon Sundays to some Congregation of Religious Worship allowed by this Act shall have any benefit at all by it The Bill is Long upon these Contents and therefore upon Consideration also that it hath been once Printed already so that the Copy thereof is in the hands of many when it is not so nor could be so with the other it is conceived best to forbear any further Repetition For indeed if the whole Bill for Indulgence were waved and one Clause onely advanced into the Bill before for Comprehension giving it the Title of a Bill for Comprehension and Indulgence both it were rather to be Chosen and easier Passed That Clause should be to this effect ANd forasmuch as there are some Ministers of a good Life that cannot according to their Judgments allow of our Parochial Churches nor a Book of Liturgy but do chuse to Worship God and Jesus Christ in the way of their Gathered or Separate Congregations and crave the Protection and Clemency of the King upon their Allegiance as other Subjects Be it finally Enacted for the Happiness and quiet of the Realm and the Reduction of these Men by other means than those which have hitherto proved unsuccessful That every Christian Subject throughout the Land that profess the Reformed Religion be pardoned all Faults and Penalties incurr'd upon the Account of any forepast Nonconformity And that all Prosecutions of the Paenal Laws which concern the Protestants and not the Papists in the matter of Religion shall be Suspended Vntil by a further Act of Parliament those that are fit to be tollerated and the Intollerable be distinguished and such Order be taken as is necessary to the settling a more Firm and Lasting Vnion in the Nation ERRATA PAge 20. l. 8. read cuervo p. 27. l. 15. r. Nachmanides p. 45. l. 31. r. many other p. 51. l. 5. for hope r. help p. 56. l. 10. r. desquels l 23. r. function p. 58. l. 8. f. as r. or p. 61. l. 7. r. proposition p. 72. l. 21. after are r. not Some literal mistakes there are in the Oriental words as Cheth for Ain and Pe for Mem and others which I omit Besides the mangling some French and Italian Quotations FINIS