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A61586	Proposals tender'd to the consideration of both Houses of Parliament for uniting the Protestant interest for the present, and preventing divisions for the future together with the declaration of K. Charles II, concerning ecclesiastical affairs, and some proposals of terms of union between the Church of England and dissenters / long since published by the Reverend Dean of S. Pauls.	Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.; Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II). Declaration to all his loving subjects of his kingdom of England and dominion of Wales concerning ecclesiastical affairs.	1689 (1689)	Wing S5621; ESTC R8098	25,861	37

present at such Elections shall be always advising and assisting together with those of the Chapter in all Ordinations and in every part of Jurisdiction which appertains to the Censures of the Church and at all other solemn and important Actions in the exercise of the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction wherein any of the Ministry are concerned Provided that at all such Meetings the number of the Ministers so elected and those present of the Chapter shall be equal and not exceed one the other and that to make the numbers equal the Juniors of the exceeding number be withdrawn that the most ancient may take place nor shall any Suffragan Bishop ordain or exercise the fore-mentioned Offices and acts of Spiritual Jurisdiction but with the advice and assistance of a sufficient number of the most judicious and pious Presbyters annually chosen as aforesaid within his Precincts And Our Will is that the great work of Ordination be constantly and solemnly performed by the Bishop and his aforesaid Presbytery at the four set times and seasons appointed by the Church for that purpose 5. We will take care that Confirmation be rightly and solemnly performed by the Information and with the Consent of the Minister of the place who shall admit none to the Lord's Supper till they have made a credible Profession of their Faith and promised Obedience to the Will of God according as is expressed in the Considerations of the Rubrick before the Catechism And that all possible diligence be used for the Instruction and Reformation of scandalous Offenders whom the Minister shall not suffer to partake of the Lord's Table until they have openly declared themselves to have truly repented and amended their former naughty Lives as is partly exprest in the Rubrick and more fully in the Canons Provided there be place for due Appeals to Superiour Powers But besides the Suffragans and their Presbytery every Rural Dean those Deans as heretofore to be nominated by the Bishop of the Diocess together with three or four Ministers of that Deanery chosen by the major part of all the Ministers within the same shall meet once in every Month to receive such Complaints as shall be presented to them by the Ministers or Church-Wardens of the respective Parishes and also to compose all such differences betwixt Party and Party as shall be referred unto them by way of Arbitration and to convince Offenders and reform all such things as they find amiss by their Pastoral Reproofs and Admonitions if they may be so Reformed And such Matters as they cannot by this Pastoral and Perswasive way compose and reform are by them to be prepared for and presented to the Bishop at which Meeting any other Ministers of that Deanery may if they please be present and assist Moreover the Rural Dean and his Assistants are in their respective Divisions to see that the Children and younger sort be carefully instructed by the respective Ministers of every Parish in the Grounds of Christian Religon and be able to give a good account of their Faith and Knowledge and also of their Christian Conversation conformable thereunto before they be confirmed by the Bishop or admitted to the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper 6. No Bishop shall exercise any Arbitrary Power or do or impose any thing upon the Clergy or the People but what is according to the known Law of the Land. 7. We are very glad to find that all with whom we have conferred do in their Judgments approve a Liturgy or set Form of Publick Worship to be Lawful which in Our Judgment for the preservation of Unity and Uniformity We conceive to be very necessary And though we do esteem the Liturgy of the Church of England conteined in the Book of Common Prayer and by Law established to be the best We have seen And We believe that We have seen all that are extant and used in this part of the World and well know what Reverence most of the Reformed Churches or at least the most Learned Men in those Churches have for it Yet since We find some exceptions made against several things therein We will appoint an equal number of Learned Divines of both Perswasions to re-view the same and to make such alterations as shall be thought most necessary and some additional Forms in the Scripture phrase as near as may be suited unto the nature of the several parts of Worship and that it be left to the Ministers choice to use one or other at his discretion In the mean time and till this be done although We do heartily wish and desire that the Ministers in their several Churches because they dislike some Clauses and Expressions would not totally lay aside the use of the Book of Common Prayer but read those parts against which there can be no exception which would be the best instance of declining those marks of Distinction which We so much labour and desire to remove Yet in Compassion to divers of Our good Subjects who scruple the use of it as now it is Our Will and Pleasure is that none be punished or troubled for not using it until it be reviewed and effectually Reformed as aforesaid 8. Lastly Concerning Ceremonies which have administred so much matter of difference and contention and which have been introduced by the Wisdom and Authority of the Church for edification and the improvement of Piety We shall say no more but that We have the more esteem of all and Reverence for many of them by having been present in many of those Churches where they are most abolished or discountenanced And it cannot be doubted but that as the Universal Church cannot introduce one Ceremony in the Worship of God that is contrary to God's Word expressed in the Scripture so every National Church with the Approbation and Consent of the Sovereign Power may and hath always introduced such particular Ceremonies as in that conjuncture of time are thought most proper for edification and the necessary improvement of Piety and Devotion in the People though the necessary practice thereof cannot be deduced from Scripture and that which before was and in it self is indifferent ceases to be indifferent after it is once established by Law And therefore Our present Consideration and Work is to gratifie the private Consciences of those who are grieved with the use of some Ceremonies by indulging to and dispensing with their omitting those Ceremonies not utterly to abolish any which are Established by Law if any are practised contrary to Law the same shall cease which would be unjust and of ill example and to impose upon the Conscience of some for the satisfaction of the Conscience of others which is otherwise provided for As it could not be reasonable that men should expect that We should Our Self decline or enjoyn others to do so to receive the Blessed Sacrament upon Our Knees which in Our Conscience is the most humble most devout and most agreeable Posture for that Holy Duty because some other men upon

for such faults as they think not at all worthy of so great a Censure We declare it but a just Thing that every Minister be first satisfied in the Cause or else be exempted from the Execution of that Charge and that the Bishop or his Court provide some other person that is satisfied about it to do it And to the intent that a free search after Truth may not be discouraged in the pursuit of Concord and many other Scruples avoided upon that Account We declare that though an Authentick Interpretation be required as to the Substance of all Laws yet in the Articles of the Church which are Theses for Agreement and not Laws and the Homilies a Doctrinal Interpretation shall be held sufficient for an Assent or Subscription to them And because the very Superintendency of Bishops and that Subjection to them which is required by the Constitution of the Realm is or may be an hindrance to many sober Ministers and other Protestants of coming into the Church who are ready to consent to the Doctrine but not to the Discipline or Government of it We do declare That so long as any Person or Party do acknowledge the King's Supremacy as Head of the Church in this Nation and obey their Ordinary or the Bishops in Licitis Honestis upon the account of his Authority committed to them for the Exercise of that External Regiment Circa Sacra which is granted by all our Divines to the Higher Powers in every Nation it is enough for the owning Episcopal Iurisdiction so far as they do own it in the Declaration of Assent and Consent or in any other part of Conformity and shall serve them to all intents and purposes in Law no lets than a professed belief and acknowledgment of the immediate Divine Right of it Be it therefore Enacted by this present Parliament That if any Person be willing to Conform to the present Establishment of the Church of England and her Service appointed according to these Explanations Alleviations Declarations Lenitives or Cautions he shall be admitted to any Ecclesiastical preferment and enjoy the use of his Ministry without any molestation All Statutes Canons or Laws to the contrary notwithstanding And for the making this Act of better Signification to the Concerned and the prevention of that Scandal which is raised on the Clergy through the Covetousness of some in heaping up to themselves all the Preferments they can get when others have scarce Subsistence for their Families and the Souls of many People are thereby neglected Be it farther Enacted that no Clergy-men for the three next years ensuing be suffered to enjoy any more than one Living or Cure of Souls and one Dignity or other Ecclesiastical Preferment at one time and that every Man without Exception that hath more than One of Either shall immediately give up the Rest to be distributed among those who shall be brought off from their Non-conformity upon the Terms of this Act into the Established Order Which that they may also be obtained and possessed with a clean Conscience and that grievous Curruption of Simony may be Extirpate out of the Land Be it Enacted moreover that every Patron that shall hence forward present his Clerk to any Living shall have the Oath called The Simonical Oath imposed on him no less than on the Incumbent And if he refuses to take it that then the Bishop shall have immediate Power taking only the same Oath of Presentation in his Room 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 choose 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 and be not Convict of Popery be Pardoned all Faults and Penalties incurred upon the account of any Fore-passed Non-conformity and that they shall not during these Seven Years next ensuing be Prosecuted upon any Penal Law for their Consciences in the matter of Religion They carrying themselves Innocently and Peaceably with submission to the Civil and without disturbance to the Ecclesiastical Government now settled in the Nation All Statutes to the contrary notwithstanding In Short A Repeal of our Laws about Conformity unto the 13 th of Elizabeth Or a New Act of Uniformity Or The King's Declaration concerning Ecclesiastical Affairs at his first coming in turn'd into a Law were Comprehension His latter Declaration to all his Loving Subjects some few things in both yet a little considered made so were Indulgence A Bill of Comprehension with Indulgence both together will do our Business An Addition or Clause in it against Pluralities will do it with Supererogation Deo Gloria Hooker's Preface to his Ecclesiastical Polity printed anno 1676. p. 44 45. Hooker's Preface to his Ecclesiastical Polity p. 44. Dr. Stillingfleet's Irenicu● p. 122.123 Preface to the Common-Prayer Dr. Tillotson's Sermon Preached at the Yorkshire-Feast An. 1679. p. 28. Dr. Sherlock's Sermon Preached before the Lord Mayor Nov. 1688. Co. Inst. 4. Part. 323 324