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A55307 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. Polhill, Edward, 1622-1694? 1682 (1682) Wing P2756; ESTC R3092 63,931 131

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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