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A66541 The history of Great Britain being the life and reign of King James the First, relating to what passed from his first access to the crown, till his death / by Arthur Wilson. Wilson, Arthur, 1595-1652. 1653 (1653) Wing W2888; ESTC R38664 278,410 409

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Requiem to his retired thoughts at Guildford his place of Birth where he had built a very Munificent Alms-house for poor people and where he went to bring his Spirit under to make it more blessed than the Glories of the World can contribute to it There were very many willing to have him retire to his rest that gaped after his Dignity more than desert and though Doctor Laud was but newly initiated into his Bishoprick of St. David's by other hands because those of the Arch-Bishop were tinctured with blood as he saith himself yet his enmity was not small against him for being a means to let the King know he was reputed a Papist in Oxford and a dangerous turbulent Spirit But the King granted out a Commission to enquire whether casual Homicide did make the Arch-Bishop irregular And in the Disquisition of it he found many friends that restored him from his Alms-house to his Palace But this he did and would have done in either condition The widow of the man that fell by him was raised by him and she and her children as may be said built a commodious being upon his grave The King's mercy and indulgence extending towards the Papists taught many men to come as near Popery as they could stretch finding it the next way to preferment so that Arminius's Tenets flew up and down from Pulpit to Pulpit that indeed preaching was nothing but declamation little tending to Edification such Orthodox Ministers as strove to refute these erronious Opinions being looked on as Puritans and Antimonarchical which continual rubbing one against another begot so much heat as might have turned into a flame not easie to be quenched And the King had daily information how the Pulpits rung against the Spanish match So that to settle these extravagancies he directs his Letters to the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury in this manner for Regulating of the Ministery MOst Reverend Father in God right trusty and intirely beloved Councellor we greet you well For as much as the abuses and extravagancies of preachers in the Pulpit have been in all Times expressed in this Realm by some Act of Councel or State with the advice and Resolution of grave and learned Prelates Insomuch that the very licensing of Preachers had beginning by an Order of Star-Chamber the eighth day of July in the nineteenth year of the Reign of King Henry the eighth our Noble Predecessor And whereas at this present divers young Students by reading of late Writers and ungrounded Divines do broach Dr. GEORGE ABBOT Arch-Bishop of Canterbury c. many times unprofitable unsound seditious and dangerous Doctrines to the scandal of the Church and disquiet of the State and present Government We upon humble representations unto us of these inconveniences by your self and sundry other grave and reverend Prelates of this Church as also of Our Princely care and Zeal for the extirpation of Schism and dissention growing from these seeds and for the setling of a Religious and Peaceable Government both in Church and Commonwealth do by these Our special letters straitly charge and command you to use all possible Care and Diligence that these Limitations and Cautions herewith sent unto you concerning Preachers be duly and strictly from henceforth put in practice and observed by the several Bishops within your Jurisdiction And to this end Our Pleasure is that you send them forthwith Copies of these Directions to be by them speedily sent and Communicated unto every Parson Vicar Curate Lecturer and Minister in every Cathedral or Parish Church within their several Diocess And that you earnestly require them to imploy their utmost endeavours in the performance of this so important a business letting them know that We have a special Eye unto their Proceedings and expect a strict account thereof both from you and every of them And these Our Letters shall be your sufficient Warrant and discharge in that behalf Given under our Signet at our Castle of Windsor the 4. of August in the twentieth year of Our Reign Directions concerning Preachers sent with the Letter 1. THat no Preacher under the Degree and calling of a Bishop or Dean of a Cathedral or Collegiate Church and they upon the King's days and set Festivals do take Occasion by the expounding of any Text of Scripture whatsoever to fall into any set discourse or Common-place otherwise than by opening the Coherence and Division of the Text which shall not be comprehended and warranted in Essence Substance Effect or natural inference within some one of the Articles of Religion set forth 1562. Or in some of the Homilies set forth by Authority of the Church of England Not only for a help for the Non-preaching but withal for a Pattern and Boundary as it were for the preaching Ministers And for their further instructions for the performance hereof that they forthwith read over and peruse diligently the said Book of Articles and the two books of Homilies 2. That no Parson Vicar Curate or Lecturer shall preach any Sermon or Collation hereafter upon Sundays and Holy-days in the afternoon in any Cathedral or parish Church throughout the Kingdom but upon some part of the Catechism or some Text taken out of the Creed ten Commandments or the Lords Prayer Funeral Sermons only excepted and that those Preachers be most encouraged and approved of who spend the afternoons exercise in the examination of children in their Catechism which is the most ancient and Laudable custom of teaching in the Church of England 3. That no Preacher of what Title soever under the Degree of a Bishop or Dean at the least do from Henceforth presume to preach in any Popular Auditory the deep points of Predestination Election Reprobation or of the universality efficacy resistibility or irresistibility of God's Grace but leave those Themes rather to be handled by the learned Men and that moderately and Modestly by way of use and application rather than by way of Positive Doctrines being fitter for the Schools then for simple Auditories 4. That no Preacher of what Title or Denomination soever from henceforth shall presume in any Auditory within this Kingdom to declare limit or bound out by way of Positive Doctrine in any Lecture or Sermon the Power Prerogative and Jurisdiction Authority or Duty of Soveraign Princes or otherwise meddle with Matters of State and the differences between Princes and the People then as they are instructed and Precedented in the Homilies of Obedience and the rest of the Homilies and Articles of Religion set forth as before is mentioned by publick Authority but rather confine themselves wholly to those two heads of Faith and Good life which are all the subject of the ancient Sermons and Homilies 5. That no Preacher of what Title or Denomination soever shall presume causelesly or without invitation from the Text fall in t bitter invectives and undecent railing speeches against the Persons of either Papists or Puritans but modestly and gravely when they are occasioned thereunto