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A79649	A collection of articles injunctions, canons, orders, ordinances, and constitutions ecclesiastical with other publick records of the Church of England; chiefly in the times of K. Edward. VIth. Q. Elizabeth. and K. James. Published to vindicate the Church of England and to promote uniformity and peace in the same. And humbly presented to the Convocation.	Church of England.; Sparrow, Anthony, 1612-1685.; Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677, engraver.	1661 (1661)	Wing C4093A; ESTC R211415	186,414	341

persons present to be admitted Deacons The Bishop TAke heed that the persons whom ye present unto us be apt and meet for their learning and godly conversation to exercise their ministry duly to the honour of God and edifying of his Church The Archdeacon shall answer I Have enquired of them and also examined them and think them so to be And the Bishop shall say unto the people BRethren if there be any of you who knoweth any impediment or notable 〈◊〉 in any of these persons presented to be ordered Deacons for the which he ought not to be admitted to the same let him come forth in the Name of God and shew what the crime or impediment is And if any great crime or impediment be objected the Bishop shall surcease from Ordering that person until such time as the party accused shall try himself clear of that crime Then the Bishop commending such as shall be found meet to be Ordered to the prayers of the Congregation with the Clerks and people present shall say or sing the Letany as followeth with the prayers The Letany and Suffrages O God the Father of heaven have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Father of heaven have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Son Redeemer of the world have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Son Redeemer of the world have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son have mercy upon us miserable sinners O holy blessed and glorious Trinity three Persons and one God have mercy upon us miserable sinners O holy blessed and glorious Trinity three persons and one God have mercy upon us miserable sinners Remember not Lord our offences nor the offences of our forefathers neither take thou vengeance of our sins Spare us good Lord spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood and be not angry with us for ever Spare us good Lord From all evil and mischief from sin from the crafts and assaults of the devil from thy wrath and from everlasting damnation Good Lord deliver us From all blindnesse of heart from pride vain-glory and hypocrisy from envy hatred and malice and all uncharitablenesse Good Lord deliver us From fornication and all other deadly sin and from all the deceits of the world the flesh and the devil Good Lord deliver us From lightning and tempest from plague pestilence and famine from battle and murder and from sudden death Good Lord deliver us From all sedition and privie conspiracy from all false doctrine and heresie from heardnesse of heart and contempt of thy word and commandment Good Lord deliver us By the mystery of thy holy Incarnation by thy holy Nativity and Circumcision by thy Baptisme Fasting and Temptation Good Lord deliver us By thine Agony and bloody Sweat by thy Crosse and Passion by thy precious death and burial by thy glorious resurrection and ascenson and by the coming of the holy Ghost God Lord deliver us In all time of our tribulation in all time of our wealth in the hour o●… death and in the day of judgement Good Lord deliver us We sinners do beseech thee to hear us O Lord God and that it may please thee to rule and govern thy holy Church universally in the right way We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to keep and strengthen in the true worshiping of thee in righteousnesse and holinesse of life thy servant CHARLES our most gracious King and Governour We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to rule his heart in thy faith fear and love and that he may evermore have affiance in thee and ever seek thy honour and glory We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to be his defender and keeper giving him the victory over all his enemies We beseech thee to hear us good Lord That it may please thee to blesse and preserve our gracious Queen Mary Prince James Duke of York and the rest of the Royal Progeny We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to illuminate all Bishops Pastors and Ministers of the Church with true knowledge and understanding of thy Word and that both by their preaching and living they may set it forth and shew it accordingly We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to edue the Lords of the Councel and all the Nobility with grace wisdome and understanding We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to blesse and keep all the Magistrates giving them grace to execute Iustice and to maintain truth We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to blesse and keep all thy people We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give to all Nations unity peace and concord We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give us an heart to love and dread thee and diligently to live after thy commandments We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give to all thy people increase of grace to hear meekly thy Word and to receive it with pure affection and to bring forth the fruits of the Spirit We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bring into the way of truth all such as have erred and are deceived We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to strengthen such as do stand and to comfort and help the weak hearted and to raise vp them that fall and finally to beat down Satan under our feet We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to succour help and comfort all that be in danger necessity and tribulation We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to preserve all that travel by land or by water all women labouring of childe all sick persons and young children and to shew thy pity upon all prisoners and captives We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to defend and provide for the fatherless children and widows and all that be desolate and oppressed We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to have mercy upon all men We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to forgive our enemies persecuters and slanderers and to turn their hearts We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give and preserve to our use the kindly fruits of the earth so as in due time we may enjoy them We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give us true repentance to forgive us all our sins negligences ignorances and to

may hear the same And every Sunday and holy day they shall plainly and distinctly read or cause to be read one Chapter of the New testament in English in the said place at Matius immediately after the Lessons and at Even-song after Magnificat one Chapter of the old Testament And to the entent the premisses may be more conveniently done the Kings Majesties pleasure is that when ix Lessons should be read in the Church three of them shall be omitted and left out with the responds and at Evensong time the responds with all the memories shall be left off for that purpose Also because those persons which be sick and in peril of death be oftentimes put in despair by the craft and subtilty of the Devil who is then most busy and specially with them that lack the knowledge sure perswasion and stedfast belief that they may be made partakers of the great and infinite mercy which almighty God of his most bountiful goodnesse and meer liberality without our deserving hath offered freely to all persons that put their ful trust and confidence in him therefore that this damnable vice of despair may be clearly taken away and firme belief and stedfast hope surely conceived of all their parishioners being in any danger they shall learn and have alwayes in a readinesse such comfortable places and sentences of Scripture as do set forth the mercy benefits and goodness of almighty God towards all penitent and believing persons that they may at all times when necessity shall require promptly comfort their flock with the lively word of God which is the onely stay of mans conscience ALSO to avoid all contention and strife which heretofore hath risen among the Kings Majesties subjects in sundry places of his Realmes and Dominions by reason of fond curtesie and challenging of places in procession and also that they may the more quietly hear that which is said or song to their edifying they shall not from henceforth in any parish Church at any time use any procession about the Church or Church-yard or other place but immediately before high Mass the Priests with other of the Quire shall kneel in the midst of the Church and sing or say plainly and distinctly the Litany which is set forth in English with all the Suffrages following and none other procession or Litany to be had or used but the said Litany in English adding nothing thereto but as the Kings grace shall hereafter appoint and in Cathedral or Collegiate Churches the same shall be done in such places as our Commissaries in in our visitation shall appoint And in the time of the Litany of the Masse of the Sermon and when the Priest readeth the Scripture to the parishioners no manner of persons without a just and urgent cause shall depart out of the Church and all ringing and knowling of Bells shall be utterly forborn for that time except one Bell in convenient time to be rung or knowled before the Sermon ALSO like as the people be commonly occupied the work-day with bodily labour for their bodily sustenance so was the holy day at the first beginning godly instituted and ordained that the people should that day give themselves wholly to God And whereas in our time God is more offended then pleased more dishonoured then honored upon the holy day because of idlenesse pride drunkennesse quarelling and brawling which are most used in such dayes people nevertheless perswading themselves sufficiently to honour God on that day if they hear Masse and service though they understand nothing to their edifying therefore all the Kings faithful and loving subjects shall from henceforth celebrate and keep their holy day according to Gods holy will and pleasure that is in hearing the word of God read and taught in private and publick prayers in knowledging their offences to God and amendment of the same in reconciling their selves charitably to their neighbours where displeasure hath been in often times receiving the Communion of the very body and blood of Christ in visiting of the poor and sick in using all sobernesse and Godly conversation Yet notwithstanding all Parsons Vicars and Curates shall teach and declare unto their Parishioners that they may with a safe and quiet conscience in the time of Harvest labour upon the holy and festival dayes and save that thing which God hath sent And if for any scrupulosity or grudge of conscience men should superstitiously abstain from working upon those dayes that then they should grievously offend and displease God ALSO forasmuch as variance and contention is a thing which most displeaseth God and is most contrary to the blessed Communion of the body and blood of our Saviour Christ Curates shall in no wise admit to the receiving thereof any of their Cure and flock who hath maliciously and openly contended with his neighbour unlesse the same do first charitably and openly reconcile himself again remitting all rancour and malice whatsoever controversie hath been between them and neverthelesse their iust titles and rights they may charitably prosecute before such as have authority to heare the same ALSO that every Dean Archdeacon Master of Collegiate Church Master of Hospital and Prebendary being Priest shall preach by himself personally twice every year at the least either in the place where he is intituled or in some Church where he hath jurisdiction or else which is to the said place appropriate or united ALSO that they shall instruct and teach in their Cures that no man ought obstinately and maliciously to break and violate the laudable ceremonies of the Church by the King Commanded to be observed and as yet not abrogated And on the other side that whosoever doth superstitiously abuse them doth the same to the great peril and danger of his souls health as in casting holy water upon his bed upon Images and other dead things or bearing about him holy bread or saint Iohns Gospel or making crosses of wood upon Palm-Sunday in time of reading of the Passion or keeping private holy dayes as Bakers Brewers Smithes Shoomakers and such other do or ringing of holy bells or blessing with the holy candle to the intent thereby to be discharged of the burden of sin or to drive away devils or to put away dreames and phantasies or in putting trust and confidence of health and salvation in the same ceremonies when they be onely ordained instituted and made to put us in remembrance of the benefits which we have received by Christ And if he use them for any other purpose he grievously offendeth God ALSO that they shall take away utterly extinct and destroy all shrines covering of shrines all tables candlesticks trindilles or rolles of wax pictures paintings and all other monuments of feigned miracles pilgrimages Idolatry and superstition so that there remain no memory of the same in walls glasses windows or elsewhere within their Churches or houses And they shall exhort all their Parishioners to do the like within their several houses And that the

also of the Churches determining controversies of doctrines and matters of belief in a full Council Act. 15. and requiring submission to those determinations from inferiour members The like did the Church afterwards in her general Councils of NICE CONSTANTINOPLE EPHESUS and CHALCEDON And not onely the General Councils have exercised this Authority but particular Churches also in National Councils in the Council of ORANGE MILEVIS and others have used the same power over their children whom they were bound to teach and govern and for whose souls they were to account to God and they did no more then was their right so long as they did it with submission to the general Church to whom they are subject Christ said to the Apostles and by this to all the guides of soules that should succeed them in a lawful Ordination He that heares you heares me and he that despises you despises me St. Cypr. ep 69 From these premises it plainly follows that our dear Mother the Church of England in making these Canons and Articles for determining of controversies in matters of belief which you may see in the ensuing Collection did no more then what was both her right and her duty to do both for the preservation of her peace and the guidance and conduct of the souls committed to her charge and what her care hath been in the exercise of this power for the good of her members ever since the Reformation will evidently to her honour appear by this following Collection made up not without great care and industry of the Publisher By which he hath done our Mother this farther right that now whosoever will may easily see the notorious slander which some of the Roman perswasion have endeavourd to cast upon her That her Reformation hath been altogether Lay and Parliamentary for by the Canons and articles following which were formerly scattered and hard to be seen by every one now gathered together into a body it easily appears to any that will but open their eyes and read that the Reformation of this Church was orderly and Synodical by the Guides and Governours of souls and confirmed by Supream Authority and so in every particular as legal as any reformation could or ought to be Anth. Sparrow Books sold by T. Garthwait THe Works of that Profound Divine Dr. Tho. Jackson president of Corp. Chr. Coll. Oxon. in Folio 3. Volumes The Scholastical History of the Canon of the Scripture by Dr. Cofin Ld. Bp. Duresme in 4o. An Introduction to the Oriental Languages by Dr. Walton Ld. Bp. of Chester in 12o. The English Case exactly set down by Hezekiahs Reformation in a Serm. at Paris before His Majesty by Dr. Steward Dean of Westminster in 12o. A Rationale upon the Book of Com. Prayer by Dr. Sparrow in 12o. A Defence of the Liturgy in answer to the Exceptions of divers Ministers in 12o. The Form of Consecration of a Church by Bp. Andrews Golden Remains of Mr. John Hales of Eton Colledge with His Letters touching rhe Synod of Dort in 4o. Dr. Pierce of the Positive being of sin with a Postscript touching Mr. Baxter in 4o. A Sermon of Lent preacht before his Majesty by Dr. Gunning c. in 4o. Bp. Andrews his Sermons in fol. INJUNCTIONS given by the most excellent Prince EDWARD the Sixt By the grace of God King of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith and in earth under Christ of the Church of England and Ireland the supreme head To all and singular his loving subjects as well of the Clergy as of the Laitie Imprinted at LONDON by Richard Grafton 1547. Injunctions given by the most excellent Prince Edward the sixt by the grace of God King of England France and Ireland defender of the Faith and in earth under Christ of the Church of England and of Ireland the supreme head To all and singular his loving subjects as well of the Clergy as of the Laity THE Kings most Royal Majestie by the advice of his most dear uncle the Duke of Somerset Lord Protector of all his Realms Dominions and Subiects and Governour of his most royal person and the residue of his most honourable counsel intending the advancement of the true honour of almighty God the suppression of Idolatry and Superstition throughout all his Realms and Dominions and to plant true Religion to the extirpation of all hypocrisy enormities and abuses as to his duty appertaineth doth minister unto his loving subjects these godly Injunctions hereafter following Whereof part were given unto them heretofore by the authority of his most dear beloved father King Henry the viii of most famous memory and part are now ministred and given by his Majesty All which Injunctions his highnesse willeth and commandeth his said loving subjects by his supreme authority obediently to receive and truely to observe and keep every man in their offices degrees and states as they will avoyd his displeasure and the pains in the same Injunctions hereafter expressed 1. The first is that all Deans Archdeacons Parsons Vicars and other Ecclesiastical persons shall faithfully keep and observe and as far as in them may lye shall cause to be observed and kept of other all and singular laws and statutes made as well for the abolishing and extirpation of the Bishop of Rome his pretensed and usurped power and jurisdiction as for the establishment and confirmation of the Kings authority jurisdiction and supremacy of the Church of England and Ireland And furthermore all Ecclesiasticall persons having cure of souls shall to the uttermost of their wit knowledge and learning purely sincerely and without any colour or dissimulation declare manifest and open iiii times every year at the least in their Sermons ond other collations that the Bishop of Romes usurped power and jurisdiction having no establishment nor ground by the laws of God was of most just causes taken away and abolished and that therefore no manner of obedience or subjection whithin his Realms and Dominions is due unto him And that the Kings power within his Realms and Dominions is the highest power under God to whom all men within the same Realms and Dominions by Gods laws owe most loyalty and obedience afore and above all other powers and Potentates in earth Besides this to the intent that all superstition and hypocrisy crept into divers mens hearts may vanish away They shall not set forth or extol any Images Relicks or Miracles for any superstition or lucre nor allure the people by any inticements to the Pilgrimage of any Saint or Image but reproving the same they shall teach that all goodness health and grace ought to be both asked and looked for onely of God as of the very author and giver of the same and of none other Item that they the persons above rehersed shall make or cause to be made in their Churches and every other Cure they have one Sermon every quarter of the year at the least wherein they shall purely and sincerely declare the word

of God and in the same exhort their hearers to the works of faith mercy and charity specially prescribed and commanded in scripture and that workes devised by mens phantasies besides Scripture as wandering to Pilgrimages offering of mony candels or tapers or relicks or Images or kissing and licking of the same praying upon beades or such like superstition have not only no promise of reward in scripture for doing of them but contrariwise great threats and maledictions of God for that they be things tending to Idolatry and superstition which of all other offences God almighty doth most detest and abhor for that the same diminish most his honour and glory Item that such Images as they know in any of their cures to be or to have been abused with Pilgrimage or offering of any thing made thereunto or shall be hereafter censed unto they and none other private persons shall for the avoiding of that most detestable offence of Idolatry forthwith take down or cause to be taken down and destroy the same and shall suffer from henceforth no Torches nor candles Tapers or Images of wax to be set afore any Image or picture but onely two lights upon the high altar before the Sacrament which for the signification that Christ is the very true light of the world they thall suffer to remain still admonishing their Parishioners that Images serve for no other purpose but to be a remembrance whereby men may be admonished of the holy lives and conversation of them that the said Images do represent which Images if they do abuse for any other entent they commit Idolatry in the same to the great danger of their souls Item that every holy day throughout the year when they have no Sermon they shall immediately after the Gospel openly and plainly recite to their Parishioners in the pulpit the Pater noster the Credo and x. Commandments in English to the intent the people may learn the same by heart exhorting all parents and housholders to teach their children and servants the same as they are bound by the law of God and in conscience to do Item that they shall charge Fathers and Mothers Masters and governours to bestow their children and servants even from their childhood either to learning or to some honest exercise occupation or husbandry Exhorting and counseling and by all the wayes and means they may aswel in their sermons and collations as otherwaies perswading their said Fathers and Mothers Masters and other governours diligently to provide and foresee that the youth be in no manner of wise brought up in idlenesse least at any time afterward for lack of some craft occupation or other honest mean to live by they be driven to fall to begging stealing or some other unchriftinesse Forasmuch as we may daily see through sloth and idlenesse divers valiant men fall some to begging and some to theft and murder which after brought to calamity and misery do blame their parents friends and governours which suffered them to be brought up so idlely in their youth where if they had been well brought up in learning some good occupation or craft they would being rulers of their own houshold have profited aswell themselves as divers other persons to the great commodity and ornament of the Common wealth Also that the said Parsons Vicars and other Curates shall diligently provide that the Sacraments be duly and reverently ministred in their Parishes And if at any time it happen them in any of the cases expressed in the statutes of this Realm or of special licence given by the Kings Majesty to be absent from their benefices they shall leave their Cure not to a rude and unlearned person but to an honest well learned and expert Curate that can by his ability teach the rude and unlearned of their Cure wholsom doctrine and reduce them to the right way that do erre which will also execute these Injunctions and do their duty otherwise as they are bound to do in every behalf and accordingly may and will profit their cure no less with good example of living then with the declaration of the word of God or else their lack and default shall be imputed unto them who shall straightly answer for the same if they do otherwise And alwayes let them see that neither they nor their Curates do seek more their own profit promotion or advantage then the profit of the souls that they have under their Cure or the glory of God Also that they shall provide within three moneths next after this visitation one book of the whole Bible of the largest volumn in English And within one twelve moneths next after the said visitation the paraphrasis of Erasmus also in English upon the gospels and the same set up in some convenient place within the said Church that they have Cure of whereas their Parishioners may most commodiously resort unto the same and read the same The charges of which books shall be ratably born between the Parson or approprietary and parishiones aforesaid that is to say the one half by the Parson or proprietary the other half by the parishioners And they shall discourage no man authorised licensed thereto from the reading of any part of the Bible either in Latine or in English but shall rather comfort exhort every person to read the same as the very lively word of God and the special food of mans soul that all Christian persons are bound to embrace believe and follow if they look to be saved whereby they may the better know their duties to God to their sovereign Lord the King and their neighbour ever gently and charitably exhorting them and in his Majesties name straightly charging and commanding them that in the reading thereof no man to reason or contend but quietly to hear the Reader Also the said Ecclesiastical persons shall in no wise at any unlawful time nor for any other cause then for their honest necessity haunt or resort to any Taverns or Alehouses And after their dinner or supper they shall not give themselves to drinking or riot spending their time idlely by day or by night at dice cards or tables playing or any other unlawful game but at all times as they shall have leasure they shall hear and read somewhat of holy Scripture or shall occupie themselves with some other honest exercise and that they alwayes do the things which appertain to honesty with endeavour to profit the common weale having alwayes in minde that they ought to excel all other in purity of life and should be an example to the people to live well and Christianly Item that they shall in confessions every Lent examine every person that cometh to confession to them whether they can recite the Articles of their faith the Pater noster and the ten Commandments in English and heare them say the same particularly wherein if they be not perfect they shall declare then that every Christian person ought to know the said things before they