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Corda Angliæ, or, The generall expressions of the land moving XXV. particulars to the honourable assembly in the high court of Parliament : that the church of England may become a glorious church of God.
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Walker, Henry, Ironmonger.
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be taken that they may often render an account what they have received and how such treasure is disposed on in every particular Councell of Toledo the 6. and 5 canon Councell of Arles 14. Article Councell of Toledo 9. and can. 1 Rom. 2.22 Acts 2 4. 2 Cor. 8.3 The 37. canon of the Councell of Rhemes is utterly against those deceitfull withdrawing and converting of the Church treasury to their owne benefit XX That no water-man may row on the Sabbath day as many doe make a practice of it no Carrier travell on that day no Taverne or Alehouse may entertaine any company on that day to drinke or revell but onely such strangers and travellers as they have entertained and to them onely as diet and lodging not to drinke and carouse nor receive any company who come of purpose for jollity drinking-matches merriment and the like whereby the holy Sabbath hath beene much polluted That no Applemonger Chandler Barber Semster Shoomaker Tailor or any other trade or occupation whatsoever may be admitted to trade or to have any imployment in or about their vocation on the Sabbath day save onely such offices who belong to the Church to the poore to the sicke or the like which for piety ought not or for charity could not bee done before or after the Sabbath to prevent the doing of it then but that no sports or pastimes no common trading for unconstrained uses nor Courts of judicature nor any unnecessitated temporall employments and practices be permitted or suffered on that day to be done nor in any part or houre thereof neither before in or after the time of the generall duties in the assembly of the Church Councell of Chalons 50 canon Austin epist. 162. 166 Councell of Arles 16 article Austin Concil. epist. 86. Councell of Ments canon 37. 2 Chro. 2.4 Lam. 1.7 Ezekiel 20. Isa 56.4 Ezek. 22 8. Hosea 2.11 The Councell of Arles permits neither markets justice Courts nor trading nor labouring on the Sabbath day as it is in the 16. article of the said Councell Infinite are those examples which might bee alledged of Gods judgments which have fallen upon families Townes Cities and whole Kingdomes for neglect herein as is manifest in the Theatre of Gods judgements the Practice of Piety Eusebius with divers Chronicles and Bookes besides XXI That what company or assembly soever are tolerated in the Kingdome yet that all his Majesties subjects in the Kingdome who are able and may doe come to the assembly and congregation in the Church on the Sabbath day both morning and evening and there joyne with the assembly during all the time of the exercises of the Church that so the whole congregation may all partake of those glorious ordinances which shall bee used in the Church to the glory of God and the comfort of their owne soules Sozom. lib. 2. cap. 2. Socrat. lib. 1. cap. 18. Euseb. de vita Constantin lib. 4. Levit. 4 15. Num. 14.1 1 Kin. 8.14 Ezra 2.14 Neh. 7.66 Iob 30.28 Neh. 5.13 Psal. 82.1 Acts 13.43 Mach. 2.5 Levit. 5.10 1 Cor. 1.2 Revel. 2.3 Revel. 12.1 Phil. 2. Matth. 18.17 1 Cor. 14.34 XXII That Popery and all the reliques thereof may bee utterly rooted out of our Churches and pure Religion setled established Saint Ambrose of virgins lib. 4. Austin of Relig. tom 1 chap. last Deut. 5 9. 1 Cor. 10.5 Gal. 5.20 1 Iohn 5.21 Deut. 4.15 Ezod. 32.8 Father Latimer saith in his second Sermon before King Edward speaking how the Romish Bishop stood out so stiffely to bring in Popery and settle it â—n the Church of England the Bishop of Rome saith he sent him a Cardinalls hat for his labour but saith hee he should have had a Tiburne tippet a halfepeny halter and all such proud Prelates These Romish trumpery saith he never brought good into England XXIII That all Popish bookes hereticall and schismaticall bookes all unjust and scandalous pamphlets which by due examination are found so to be all vaine and ungodly bookes ballads love-songs and lascivious bookes and vaine pamphlets may be called in and no more such may be ever tolerated hereafter or dispersed either in print or in manuscript which vaine bookes ballads and pamphlets have taken deeper impression upon the hearts of many thousands to draw them to love and delight in those actions of sin into which they have beene seduced by reading of them Councell of Towers 11 canon and 16. canon 1 Tim. 3.5 3 Iohn 6. Acts 19.37 2 Cor. 11.28 Menander was a man so delighted with wanton bookes that he writ himselfe 80. bookes of love and in the end grew outragious in the love of women XXIV That the revenues of Cathedralls be employed to better purposes and not wasted upon pipers dancing-masters drunken and deboist fellowes and such as are no way beneficiall or advantagious to the Church of Christ to the State nor to the bodies or souls of any members of the Church or State but that it may bee employed on such and in such a manner whereby the Church of God may be bettered thereby Councell of Towers the 11. canon and 16. canon Councel of Trent pag 574. 1 Tim. 3.5 3 Iohn 6. Act. 14.37 2 Cor. 11.28 Is it not a miserable thing that such men who are very ignorant in the Scriptures and in the worship of God whose whole life is spent in idle songs in tavernes and wanton company who understand very little or no divinity at all who are neither able to preach nor to expound the Scriptures shall be entertained into the Church whilst honest and sound Ministers are in want XXV That in all things all care possible may be taken that the Church of England may become a glorious Church Theodorâ—tus lib. 5. ca. 20. Socrates lib. 1. cap. 1. lib 3 cap. 18. Heliopolus Iudea Ruff lib. 2. cap 30. Sozom. lib. 2. cap. 2. Ier. 9.24 1 Cor. 1.31 2 Cor. 10.17 Exod. 33.18 Ioh. 1.14 2.11 2 Kin. 8.11 FINIS