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A74501 An ordinance appointing commissioners for approbation of publique preachers. Monday March 20. 1653. Ordered by His Highness the Lord Protector and His Council, that this ordinance be forthwith printed and published. Henry Scobell Clerk of the Council. England and Wales. Lord Protector (1653-1658 : O. Cromwell); England and Wales. Council of State. 1654 (1654) Thomason E1063_16; ESTC R209549 3,179 9

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AN ORDINANCE Appointing COMMISSIONERS for Approbation of Publick Preachers WHereas for some time past hitherto there hath not been any certain course established for the supplying vacant places with able and fit persons to preach the Gospel by reason whereof not onely the Rights and Titles of Patrons are prejudiced but many weak scandalous popish and ill-affected persons have intruded themselves or been brought in to the great grief and troubl● of the good people of this Nation For remedy and prevention whereof Be it Ordained by his Highness the Lord Protector by and with the consent of his Council that every person who shall from and after the five and twentieth day of March instant be presented nominated chosen or appointed to any Benefice formerly called Benefice with Care of Souls or to preach any publick settled Lecture in England or Wal●● shall before he be admitted into any such Benefice or Lecture be judged and approved by the persons hereafter named to be a person for the Grace of God in him his holy and unblamable Conversation as also for his knowledge and utterance able and fit to preach the Gospel And that after the said five and twentieth day of March no person but such as shall upon such approbation be admitted by the said persons shall take any publique Lecture having a constant stipend legally annexed and belonging thereunto or take or receive any such Benefice as aforesaid or the profits thereof And be it further ordained That Francis Rous Esq Dr. Thomas Goodwin Dr. John Owen Mr. Thankful Owen Dr. Arrowsmith Dr. Tuckney Dr. Horto● Mr. Joseph Caryl Mr. Philip Ny Mr. William Garter Mr. Sidrach Simpson Mr. William Greenhill Mr. William Strong Mr. Thomas Manton Mr. Samuel Slater Mr. William Cooper Mr. Stephen Marshal Mr. John Tombes Mr. Walter Cradock Mr. Samuel Faircloth Mr. Hugh Peters Mr. Peter Sterry Mr. Samuel Bamford Mr. Thomas Valentine of Chaford Mr. Henry Jessee Mr. Obadiah Sedgewick Mr. Nicholas Lockier Mr. Daniel Dyke Mr. James Russel Mr. Nathanael Campfield Robert Titchborn Alderman of London Mark Hildesley Thomas Wo●d John Sadler William Goff Thomas St. Nicholas William Packer and Edward Cresset Esquires shall be and are hereby nominated constituted and appointed Commissioners for such approbation and admission as is abovesaid and upon death or removal of any of them others shall from time to time be nominated in their places by the Lord Protector and his Successors by advice of his Council in the Interval of Parlaments and sitting the Parlament by the Protector and Parlament And the said Commissioners or any five or more of them met together in some certain place in the City of London or Westminster as his Highness shall appoint are hereby authorized to judge and take knowledge of the ability and fitness of any person so Presented nominated chosen or appointed according to the qualification above-mentioned and upon their approbation of such his ability and fitness to grant unto such person admission to such Benefice or Lecture by an Instrument in writing under a Common Seal to be appointed by his Highness and under the hand of the Register or Registers for the time being to be also nominated by the Lord Protector and his Successors which Instrument the said Register or Registers shall cause to be entered in a Book for that purpose and kept upon Record And it is hereby declared That the said person so admitted into any such Benefice shall be Possessor and Incumbent of the same and intituled thereby to the Profits Perquisits and all Rights and Dues incident and belonging thereunto as fully and effectually as if he had been instituted and inducted according to the Laws of this Realm as also the person that shall be so admitted to any Lecture as aforesaid shall be thereby enabled according to the establishment and constitution of such Lecture to preach therein and to have and receive the Stipend or Profits to such Lecture belonging Provided alwaies That no person who shall tender himself or be tendred for approbation as aforesaid shall be concluded by any vote of the said Commissioners which shall passe in the Negative as to his approbation unless nine or more of the said Commissioners be present at such Vote And it is further Ordained That all Patrons of any Benefices that are now void shall within six Moneths next after the five twentieth of this instant M●rch and of any Benefice that shall hereafter be void within six Months next after the avoidance of the same Present unto the said Commissioners or any five of them some fit person to be admitted and for default of such Presentation within that time the Presentation for that turn shall devolve by lapse unto the Lord Protector and his Successors Provided alwaies That in case the Patron be disturbed to Present unto such Benefice and thereupon within six moneths after the avoidance of such Benefice a Sute be commenced for the Recovery of such Presentation and notice thereof in writing left with the said Commissioners or any five of them or the Register that then such notice shall be as effectual to prevent the lapse as where the sute was heretofore commenced against the Bishop or Ordinary And it is further Ordained That during the vacancy of such place by reason of such Sute the said Commissioners or any five or more of them have hereby authority to sequester the fruits and profits thereof for supplying of the place with an able Preacher by the said Commissioners or any five or more of them to be nominated and approved of as aforesaid And forasmuch as many persons since the first day of April last past have been placed in such Benefices and publique Lectures It is hereby Ordained That in case such person shall not before the four and twentieth day of June next obtain approbation and admittance in the manner before exprest Then such person or persons as have right thereunto shall or may Present or nominate some other fit and able person to such place And in default of such Presentation within two Moneths after the said four and twentieth day of June or within six Moneths after the place became void the Presentation for that turn shall likewise devolve by lapse unto the Lord Protector and his Successors And for the better satisfaction of the said Commissioners touching the godly and unblameable conversation of such persons as are to bee admitted into any place as aforesaid It is further Declared and Ordeined that before any admittance of any person as aforesaid there shall bee brought to the said Commissioners or any five of them a Testimonial or Certificate in writing subscribed with the hands of three persons of known godliness and integritie whereof one at least to bee a preacher of the Gospel in som constant setled place Testifying upon their personal knowledg the holy and good conversation of the person so to bee admitted which said Certificat shall bee dulie Registred and filed And it is also Declared that the penaltie for or in respect of the not subscribing or reading the Articles mentioned in the Act of the 13th yeer of Queen Elisabeth Intituled Reformation of Disorders in the Ministers of the Church or for not produceing such Testimonial as in the said Act is required shall from henceforth ceas and bee void And whereas for the better maintenance of preaching Ministers several Augmentations by Authoritie of Parlament have been heretofore granted Bee it further Ordeined that all person or persons who claim or shall hereafter claim the benefit of such Augmentation shall before hee or they receiv the same obtain the approbation of the said Commissioners or five of them as a person qualified as is before mentioned And in case of approbation such approbation shall bee entred by the Register who under his hand shall also signifie the same to such person or persons as are or shall bee authorized to pay such Augmentation who are hereby required and authorized from time to time to pay the person or persons so approved such Augmentation as hath been or shall bee granted unto him or the place where hee preacheth taking his or their Acquittances for the same Provided and it is hereby Declared that this Ordinance or any thing therein conteined shall not bee construed to extend unto or to revive any dignities offices or benefits Ecclesiastical suppressed by Authoritie of Parlament Nor to any benefices Ecclesiastical that were not presentative before the Ordinance for suppression of Bishops Nor to any Lectures preached or read in any of the Vniversities And it is hereby lastly Declared and Ordained That the Approbation or admittance aforesaid in such manner as is before prescribed is not intended nor shall bee construed to bee any Solemn or Sacred setting apart of a person to any particular office in the Ministrie But onely by such trial and approbation to take care that places destitute may bee supplied with able and faithful Preachers throughout this Nation And that such fit and approved persons faithfully labouring in the work of the Gospel may bee in a capacitie to receiv such publick stipend and maintenance as is or shall bee allotted to such places HEN. SCOBEL Clerk of the Council 20. March 1653. ORdered by His Highness the Lord PROTECTOR and His Council That this Ordinance bee forthwith Printed and Published HEN. SCOBEL Clerk of the Council