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A50670	The parson's monitor, consisting of such cases and matters as principally concern the clergy collected from the statute and common laws, as also the constitutions and canons ecclesiastical : confirmed 1 Jac. anno Dom. 1603 : together with the Articles of religion, authority of the convocation, privilege of churches and church-yards, payment of first-fruits and tenths, in whose name and style ecclesiastical courts are to be kept, and the process issuing out of the same are to run in, and with what seal to be sealed : with several other matters (never before extant) very material and necessary to be known by the clergy in general, and all persons concerned either as patron, or incumbent / by G. Meriton, gent.	Meriton, George, 1634-1711.	1681 (1681)	Wing M1808; ESTC R702	137,500	344

Instituo te Rectorem talis Ecclesiae cum cura Animarnm accipe curam tuam meam c. And note that every Rectory consists of Spiritualities and Temporalities and as to the Spiritualities to wit Cura animarum he is compleat Parson by the Institution and may celebrate Divine Service Preach c. but not to the Temporalities as to the Glebe c. for he hath no freehold in them till his Induction vide Hare and Buckle's Ca. Plo. Com. f. 528. Co. Lit. f. 344. a. and Hill 41 Eliz B. R. Digbie's Ca. Co. Rep. 4. Lib. f. 79. a. Hughe's Grand Abridgm 1. part p. 135. Ca. 7. Goldes Rep. p. 163. and 164. and vide 32. H. 6. 28. b. and 33. H. 6. 24. and Hughe's Parson's Law cap. 11. A Bishop may Institute out of his Diocess Note That the Bishop may Institute a Clerk as well out of his Diocess as within it for as to this matter it is not local but follows the Person of the Bishop wheresoever he goes Cro. Car. f. 342. Hughe's Gran. Abridgm 1 part p. 134. Ca. 7. and vide 21. Jac. B. R. in Knowle's and Dobbin's Case Godbolt's Rep. p. 342. pl. 446. Hughe's Parson's Law cap. 11. and 27 Eliz. C. B. Carter and Croft's Case None to be admitted to any Living till he be a Priest in Orders But observe that none can be admitted to any Living till he be a Priest in Orders which he cannot be by the Statute of Uniformity till he is four and twenty Years of Age and if any Person shall be Admitted Instituted and Inducted into any Living before he is in Holy Orders his Admission Institution and Induction are void 14. Car. 2. cap. 4. And every Clerk before his Admission to be Incumbent must subscribe the Every Clerk to subscribe to his Declaration before his Admission to a Living Declaration following to wit I. B. C. ' do declare that it is not Lawfull upon any pretence whatsoever to take Arms against the King And that I do abhor that Trayterous Position of taking Arms by his Authority against his Person or against those that are Commissioned by him And that I will conform to the Liturgy of the Church of England as it is now established by Law And I do declare that I do hold there lies no Obligation upon me or any other Person from the Oath commonly called the Solemn League and Covenant to endeavour any change or alteration of Government either in Church or State And that the same was in it self an unlawfull Oath and imposed upon the Subjects of this Kingdom against the known Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom 14. Car. 2 cap. 4. After the five and twentieth Day of March 1682. There shall be omitted out of the said Declaration or acknowledgment the latter part thereof-beginning And I do declare that I do hold there lies no Obligation on me or any other Person from the Oath c. After this Subscription made every A Certificate to be procured after Subscription and the same to be read within three Months Parson Vicar Curate and Lecturer is to procure a Certificate under the Hand and Seal of the respective Archbishop Bishop or Ordinary of the Diocess who are to deliver the same upon demand and shall publickly and openly read the same together with the declaration or acknowledgment aforesaid upon some Lord's day within three Months then next following in his Parish Church where he is to Officiate in the time of Divine Service before all the Common-Prayer be ended in the presence of the Congregation there assembled upon pein to loose his Parsonage Vicarage or Benefice Curate's place of Lecturer's place and shall be utterly disabled and ips facto deprived of the same And that the said Parsonage Vicarage or Benefice Curate's place or Lecturer's place shall be void as if he were naturally Dead 14. Car. 2. cap. 4. What Induction is and how to be performed When the Bishop hath Instituted the Clerk the Ordinary c. makes a Mandate under Seal to the Archdeacon of the place or to such other Clergy-men as he pleaseth to Induct the Clerk and it may be done by the Dean and Chapter by Prescription but not by the Patron and the usual way of Induction is by the delivery of the Bell-Rope to the new Parson who is to toll the Bell that the People may thereby take notice when the Archdeacon inducts the Parson his Fee is 40 Pence but a Donative may pass by the gift of the Patron without Institution or Induction 8. Ass pl. 13. Davis Rep. f. 46. b. Roll's Cases 2 part f. 356. B. 1. and 357. C. 2 3 4 5 6 7 Deg. cap. 2. vide 38. E. 3. 3. b. 11. H. 4. 9 and 10. What Remedy where the Archdeacon refuseth to Induct If the Archdeacon will not Induct the Clerk after such time as the Bishop hath admitted and Instituted him and directed his Mandate to the Archdeacon to admit him some have been of Opinion that the Clerk may have an action of the Case against him because the Induction is a Temporal act but others are of Opinion and so it was adjudged p. 13. Eliz. C. B. that a Citation shall be awarded in such Case out of the Spiritual Court against the Archdeacon to answer the same there where he shall be punished if there be Cause because the Archdeacon may alledge some special Cause which by the Spiritual Ecclesiastical Law the Clerk ought not to be Inducted which Cause may not be triable or determinable in the Temporal Court Fitz. N. B. 47. H. Hughe's Par. Law cap. 12. Ecclesiastical Persons to take the Oath of Supremacy All and every Person and Persons that shall be Preferred Promoted or Collated to any Archbishoprick or Bishoprick or to any other Spiritual Promotion or Ecciesiastical Benesice Promotion Dignity Office or Ministery before he or they take upon him or them to Receive Use Exercise Supply or Occupy any such Promotion they shall take the Oath of Supremacy before such Persons as have Authority to admit any such Person to any such Office or Ministery 1 Eliz. cap. 1. 5 Eliz. cap. 1. Clerks to swear Canonical Obedience And when any Clerk is admitted and instituted to any Benefice he is usually sworn also to Canonical Obedience to his Diocesan Co. Inst 4 part f. 324. The form of the Oath of Supremacy The form of the Oath of Supremacy is as followeth viz I. A. B. ' do utterly declare and testify in my Conscience That the King's Highness is the only Supream Governor of this Realm and of all other his Majestie 's Dominions and Countries as well in Spiritual or Ecclesiastical things or Causes as Temporal and that no foreign Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Jurisdiction Power Superiority Preeminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within this Realm And therefore I do utterly renounce and forsake all foreign Jurisdiction Powers Superiorities and Authorities And do Promise that from henceforth I shall bear Faith and true Allegiance to the King's Highness his Heirs and Lawfull Successors And to my Power shall

Assist and Defend all Jurisdiction Privileges Preeminences and Authorities granted or belonging to the King's Highness his Heirs and Successors or United and Annexed to the Imperial Crown of this Realm So help me God and the Contents of this Book 1. Eliz. cap. 1. The Penalty for refusing the Oath If any Person or Persons who shall be Promoted Preferred or Collated to any Spiritual Promotion or Ecclesiastical Benefice do Peremtorily refuse to take this Oath upon tender thereof then he or they so refusing shall presently be adjudged disabled in the Law to receive take or have the same Promotion Spiritual or Ecclesiastical to all Intents Constructions and Purposes 1 Eliz. cap. 1. and by the 5 Eliz. cap. 1. Refusal of the Oath upon the first tender being Indicted or Presented according to the Laws of the Realm within one Year after such refusal incurs the danger of a Premunire and if after the space of three Months after the first tender it be refused a second time upon tender such second refusal is High Treason and this second tender Principally concerns Ecclesiastical Persons 5 Eliz. cap. 1. The Penalty for extolling any foreign Power If any Person or Persons dwelling within this Kingdom or any other the King's Dominions shall by Writing Printing Teaching Preaching express words deed or act advisedly maliciously and directly affirm hold stand with set forth maintain or defend the Authority or Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of any foreign Prelate or Person c. heretofore claimed or usurped within this Realm or other the King's Dominions or shall advisedly put in Ure or Execute any thing for the extolling c. any such pretended Power or Authority And being thereof Lawfully Convicted and Attainted for the first Offence forfeits all his Goods and Chattels real and Personal and if he be not worth twenty Pounds then to suffer a Years Imprisonment without Bail besides the forfeiture of such Goods and Chattels and shall also loose all his Spiritual Promotions and Dignities whatsoever and that the same shall be utterly void as if the Incumbent were Dead and the Patron c. may present de novo The second Offence Incurs the danger of a Premunire and the third Offence is High-Treason the Offences for Preaching Teaching or Words to be Indicted within the space of a Year next after such Offence committed and if any be Imprisoned for any of the said Offences of Preaching Teaching or Words and be not Indicted within half a Year after such Offence committed then to be set at Liberty two Witnesses or more to prove such Indictment and to be brought Face to Face upon the parties arraignment to give Evidence 1 Eliz. cap. 1. And if any Person or Persons shall The Penalty for defending the Authority of the Bishop of Rome by Writing Cyphering Printing Preaching or Teaching Deed or Act advisedly and willingly set forth c. or defend the Authority of the Bishop of Rome or of his See or any Bishop thereof heretofore claimed within this Kingdom or any other of his Majestie 's Dominions such Person or Persons so offending and their Abetters being Lawfully Indicted and presented for the same within One Year after and attainted at any time after shall for such First Offence incur the danger of a Premunire and for the Second Offence suffer such like Pains Forfeitures Judgments and Executions as for High Treason Corruption of Blood and Forfeiture of Dower excepted 5 Eliz. cap. 1. Note That in Hillary Term the 11 What shall be said an Offence within the 5 Eliz. Eliz. it was Resolved by the Justices of both Benches at Serjeants Inn in Fleet-street the Chief Baron being also present That if a Man imports Books over Sea written against the Supreamacy knowing the effect of them and utters them to any Subjects here he is within the compass of the stat 5 Eliz. cap. 1. but the Receivers of such Books if they in Conference of them do not allow them they are not within the said Statute but if they in Conference they do allow them then they are also within the Statute and so are they who hear the Contents and affirm them to be good The like of him who conveys the Books secretly to his Friends and perswades them to be of the same Opinion And so of them who Print and utter such Books within this Realm Also if such Books written within the Realm are conveyed out and are there bought read and Conference had upon them such Persons sending them out are within the Compass of the Statute Dyer f. 281. b. and 282 a. Ecclesiatstical Persons to take the Oath of Allegiance By the stat 7 Jac. cap. 6. every Archbishop and Bishop are to take the Oath of Allegiance set down in the 3 Jac. cap. 4. before the Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal for the time being and all Parsons Vicars and Curats and all other Spiritual Persons whatsoever taking Orders are to take the same Oath before the Bishop of the Diocess or other Ordinary in the same sitting in open Court the Tenure of which Oath followeth in these words viz. I. A. B. ' do truly and sincerely Acknowledge Consess Testifie and Declare in my Conscience before God and the World That our Sovereign Lord King Charles the Second is Lawfull and Rightfull King of this Realm and of all other his Majestie 's Dominions and Countries And that the Pope neither of himself nor by any Authority of the Church or See of Rome or by any other means with any other hath any power or Authority to depose the King or to depose any of his Majestie 's Kingdoms or Dominions or to Authorise any Foreign Prince to invade or anoy him or his Countries or to discharge any of his Subjects of their Allegiance and Obedience to his Majesty or to give Licence or leave to any of them to bear Arms raise Tumult or to offer any violence or hurt to his Majestie 's Royal Person State or Government or to any of his Majestie 's Subjects within his Majestie 's Dominions Also I do swear from my Heart that notwithstanding any Declaration or Sentence of Excommunication● or Deprivation made or granted or to be made or granted by the Pope or his Successors or by any Authority derived or pretended to be derived from him or his See against the said King his Heirs or Successors or any Absolution of the said Subjects from their Obedience I will bear Faith and true Allegiance to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors and him and them will defend to the uttermost of my power against all Conspiracies and Attempts whatsoever which shall be made against his or their Persons their Crown and Dignity by reason or colour of any such Sentence or Declaration or otherwise

year upon some Sunday after Evening-Prayer to reade in their Parish Churches the Statute of the 20 Jac. cap. 20. against prophane cursing and swearing and once every year upon some Sunday or Holyday in the Afternoon before Divine Service they are to reade the Book of Canons agreed upon in the Synod begun at London Anno Dom. 1603. and every Minister every year in his Church the Sunday next before the 29 day of May at Morning-Prayer is to reade the Statute of the 12 Car. 2. cap. 14. Ministers before their Sermons Lectures What Order Ministers are to observe in their Prayer before their Sermons c. and Homilies are to Pray first for the Holy Catholick-Church of Christ through the whole World and especially for the Churches of England Scotland and Ireland then for the King Queen and Royal Family next for all Arch-Bishops Bishops and other Pastors and Curates of God's Holy Word and Sacraments then for the King's Privy-Council and all the Nobility and Magistrates of his Realm and for the Commons that they may live in true Faith and fear of God in humble Obedience to the King and Brotherly Charity one to another and lastly they must praise God for all those who have departed out of this Life in the Faith of Christ and must pray to God that we by Grace may learn to follow their Good Example that after this Life ended we may be partakers with them of the Glorious Resurrection of the Life Everlasting and must always conclude with the Lord's Prayer Can. 55. The Supream Ecclesiastical power in the King Note That the King hath the Supream Ecclesiastical Power in him as it hath been held and agreed and may without Parliament make Orders and Constitutions for the Government of the Clergy and may deprive them if they obey not and they can make no Canons or Constitutions without his Assent Cro. Jac. f. 37. Mo. Rep. f. 155. pl. 1043. and Vaugh. Rep. f. 329. The power of the Convecations But some Clergy-men seem to think and others do not stick to say that no Orders or Constitutions can be made to bind them but what are agreed upon in the Convocations of the Clergy therefore I think it will not be amiss to insert here the Authority of the Convocation as my Lord Coke sets it down in his fourth part of his Institutes which take as followeth he saith it is called Convocation a Convocando because they are called together by the King 's Writ and their Authority being never assembled together but by the King 's Writ was to deal with Heresies Schisms and other meer Spiritual and Ecclesiastical Causes and therein they did proceed juxta Legem Divinam Canones Sanctae Ecclesiae and as they could never assemble but by the King 's Writ so they were oftentimes commanded by the King 's Writ to deal with nothing that concerned the King's Laws of the Land his Crown and Dignity his Person or his State or the State of his Council or Kingdom and so whatsoever Act is done in the Convocation is under the Power and Authority of the King but not è contra what he doth under them see the King's Letters in the conclusion of this Chapter vide Co. Inst 4 part f. 322. 26 H. 6. 13. and 21 Eliz. 4. f. 45. a. p. Vavasour and f. 45. 6 p. Starkey and Brown and Rolls Cases 1 p. f. No Canons to be made in the Convocation without the King's Licence And the Lord Coke saith further that the King did often appoint Commissioners by writ to sit with them at the Convocation and to have Conusance of such things as they meant to establish that nothing should be done in prejudice ut supra And therefore the Statute of 25 H. 8 cap. 19. whereby it is provided that no Canons Constitutions or Ordinance should be made or put in Execution within this Realm by Authority of the Convocation of the Clergy which were contrariant or repugnant to the King's Prerogative Royal or the Customes Laws or Statutes of this Realm is but declaratory of the old Common-Law but by the said Act their Jurisdiction and Power is much lestned concerning making of new Canons for they must have both Licence to make them and after they be made they must have the King 's Royal Assent to the allowance thereof before they be put in Execution 25 H. 8. cap. 19. Co. Inst 4 part f. 323. The King's Letters of direction to the Archbishop of Canterbury concerning the Clergy The King's Majesty in his Letters and Directions to the Archbishop of Canterbury dated the fourteenth Year of his now Majestie 's Reign in the Month of October declares there to this effect First That no Preachers in their Sermons shall presume to meddle with matters of State to modell new Governments or take upon them to Declare Limit or bound out the Authority and Power of Sovereign Princes or to State and Determine the difference between Princes and People but that as they have occasion they Faithfully tell the People of their duty of Subjection and Obedience to their Governors Superior and Subordinate of all sorts and to the established Laws according to the Word of God and the Doctrine of the Church of England as it is contained in the Homilies of Obedience and Articles of Religion set forth by publick Authority Secondly That they spend not their time in the search of speculative and abstruse Notions especially in and about the deep points of Election and Reprobation the Incomprehensible manner of the Concurrence of God's free Grace and Man's free Will and such Controversies as depend thereon And that however they do not presume possitively and doctrinaly to determine any thing concerning the same Thirdly That they forbear in their Sermons ordinarily and causelesly to enter upon the handling of any other Controversies of less moment and difficulty And when occasionally they be invited by their Text or Auditory to fall into them that they doe it with all Modesty Gravity and Candor asserting the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England from the Cavils and Objections of such as are Adversaries to either without bitterness railing jeering or other unnecessary or unseemly Provocation Fourthly That they Catechise the Younger sort according to the Book of Common-Prayer and in their ordinary Sermons do chiefly insist upon Catechistical Doctrines containing the necessary Truths of Christian Religion and setting forth withall what Influence such Doctrine ought to have in their Lives and Conversations and stirring up the People by their Lives and Doctrine to the practice of such Religious and Moral duties as are the proper result of the said Doctrines as Self-denyal Contempt of the World Humility Patience Meekness Temperance Justice Mercy Obedience and the like and to hate and shun sin especially the sins so rife and common amongst us and more especially those usually called the seven deadly sins and all kind of Debauchery Sensuality Rebellion Prophaneness Atheisin

if a Spiritual Person without Fraud or Covin do buy any Horses Mares or Mules for himself or Servants to ride about their necessary business or any other Cattel or Goods to be imployed and put in and about his necessary apparel of his own House or of his Person or Servants or in for or about the occupying manuring or tillage of his Glebe or Demesn Lands annexed to his Church or for the expenses of his Household keeping and after such buying they prove not for the purposes they were bought for then such Spiritual Person may Lawfully bargain and put away the same And it is further provided that every Spiritual Person not having sufficient Glebe or Demesn Lands in their own Hands in right of their Churches for Pasturage of Cattel or for increase of Corn for expences of their Households or for their Carriages or Journies may Farm other Lands and buy and sell Corn and Cattel for the only manuring tillage and pasturage of such Farms so that the increase thereof be alway imployed and put to and for the only expences in their Households and Hospitalities and not in any wise to buy and sell again for any other Commodity Lucre or Advantage any Corn or Cattel renewing coming or growing in and upon any such Farm or otherwise but only the Remainer and Overplus above their expences of their Household if any such shall happen to be bread and increase thereof without Fraud and Covin 21 H. 8. cap. 13. And it is further enacted that no The Penalty for k●●●i●g T●●●●●use or Brew-house Spiritual Person Beneficed with cure of Souls shall occupy by himself or any to his use any Parsonage or Vicarage in Farm of the Lease or Grant of any Person or Persons nor take any Profit or Rent out of any such Farm upon pein to forfeit forty shillings a Week and ten times the value of the Rent or Profit he shall take out of such Farm And it is further enacted that no Spiritual Person of what degree or condition soever he be shall have use or keep by himself or any to his use any manner of Tan-house or Tanhouses Brew-house or Brew-houses to any other use intent or purpose then only to be spent and occupied in his or their own Houses upon pein to forfeit ten pounds a Month one Moiety to the King and the other to the Informer to be sued for as aforesaid 21 H. 8. cap. 13. They may Farm Houses c. But note it is provided by the said Statute that it may be Lawfull to every Spiritual Person or Persons to take in Farm any Messes Mansions or dwelling Houses having but only Orchards or Gardens in any City Borough and Town for their own habitation and dwelling so that no Person Spiritual other then such as are Licenced and allowed by Law have any Liberty of non residence by colour of the said Proviso 21 H. 8. cap. 13. An Information was exhibited against two Parsons upon the Statute 21 H. 8. against one of them for non residence and against the other for taking of a Farm and one of them pleaded sickness and that by advice of his Physicians he removed into better Air for recovery of his health and the other pleaded that he took the Farm only for the maintenance of his House and Family and these Pleas were held justifiable by the whole Court M. 10 Jac. I. S. Plaintiff against Martin and Gunnistone Boulstr Rep. 2 part f. 18. Priests c. punishable for incontinence In the 1 H. 7. I find a Statute in the Printed Books of Statutes put forth by Rastal Poulton and Keeble and not any where repealed that I can find so I suppose it is still in force and power by which Statute it is enacted that it shall be Lawfull to all Archbishops and Bishops and other Ordinaries having Episcopal Jurisdiction to punish and chastise Priests Clerks and Religious Men being within the bounds of their Jurisdiction as shall be convicted afore them by Examination and other Lawfull proof requisite by the Law of the Church of Advowtry Fornication Incest or any other fleshly incontinence by committing them to Ward and Prison there to abide for such time as shall be thought by their discretions convenient for the quality and quantity of their Trespass and none of the said Archbishops Bishops or other Ordinaries aforesaid shall be thereof chargeable to or upon any Action of false or wrongfull Imprisonment but that they be utterly thereof discharged in any of the Cases aforesaid by virt●● of the said Act 1 H. 7. cap. 4. All Citations c. to be in the King 's Nam● In the 1 E. 6. cap. 2. it is said that whereas the Archbishops and Bishops and other Spiritual Persons in this Realm do use to make and send out their Summons Citations and other Process in their own Names and in such Form and manner as was used in the time of the usurped power of the Bishop of Rome contrary to the Form and Order of the Summons and Process of the Common Law used in this Realm seeing that all Authority of Jurisdiction Spiritual and Temporal is derived and deducted from the King's Majesty as Supream Head of these Churches and Realms of England and Ireland and so justly acknowledged by the Clergy of the said Realms that all Courts Ecclesiastical within the said two Realms be kept by no other Power or Authority either forreign or within the Realm but by the Authority of his most excellent Majesty it is therefore enacted that all Summons and Citations or other Process Ecclesiastical in all Suits and Causes of Instance betwixt party and party and all Causes of Correction and all Causes of Bastardy o● Bigamy or Jure Patronatus Probates of Testaments and Commissions of Administrations of Persons deceased and all acquittances of and upon accounts made by the Executors Administrators or Collectors of Goods of any Dead Person be from the first Day of July then next following made in the Name and with the Stile of the King as it is in Writs Original or Judicial at the Common Law and that the Test thereof be in the Name of the Archbishop or Bishop or other having Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction who hath the Commission and Grant of the Authority Ecclesiastical immediately from the King's Highness and his Commissary Official or Substitute exerciseing Jurisdiction under him shall put his Name in the Citation or Process after the Test ●1 E. 6. c●p 2. The King'● Arms c. to be put in the Seals of Office c. And it is further enacted that all manner of Person or Persons who have the Exercise of Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction shall have expressed in their Seals of Office the King's Highness Arms decently set with certain Characters under the Arms for the knowledge of the Diocese and shall use no other Seal of Jurisdiction but wherein his Majestie 's Arms be Ingraven upon pein that if any Person shall use Ecclesiastical

and the like And that where there is any Exercise in the Afternoon that there it be specially spent in explaining some part of the Church Catechisme or some Scripture that may lead to the handling and explaining of it or that may conduce to the Exposition of the Liturgy and Prayers of the Church And Lastly That they labour with their People to draw them from Idle Debauched Prophane Courses and perswade Men to frequent Divine Services Sabbath-days and other Festivals appointed to be kept solemn and prevent them from haunting Taverns and Alehouses or to use unlawfull sports on the Lord's day CHAP. III. The Articles of Religion which every Minister is to subscribe unto both at his Ordination and at his Admission and Institution to a Living agreed upon by the Archbishops and Bishops of both Provinces and the whole Clergy in the Convocation holden at London 1562. put forth by Authority for avoiding diversities of Opinions and for the establishing of consent touching true Religion 1. Of Faith in the Holy Trinity Article 1 THere is but one Living and true God everlasting without Body Parts or Passions of Infinite Power Wisdom and Goodness the maker and preserver of all things both Visible and Invisible And in Unity of this God-head there be three Persons of one Substance Power and Eternity the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost 2. Of the Word of God which was made very Man Article 2 The Son which is the Word of the Father begotten from everlasting of the Father the very and Eternal God of one Substance with the Father took Man's Nature in the Womb of the Blessed Virgin of her Substance so that two whole and perfect Natures that is to say the God-head and Manhood were joyned together in one Person never to be devided whereof is one Christ very God and very Man who suffered was Crucified Dead and Buried to Reconcile his Father to us and to be a Sacrifice not only for original Guilt but also for all actual sins of men 3. Of the going down of Christ into Hell Article 3 As Christ died for us and was Buried So also it is to be believed that he went down into Hell 4. Of the Resurrection of Christ Article 4 Christ did truly rise again from Death and took again his Body with Flesh Bones and all things appertaining to the Perfection of Man's Nature wherewith he ascended into Heaven and there sitteth until he return to Judge all Men at the last day 5. Of the Holy Ghost Article 5 The Holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son is of Substance Majesty and Glory with the Father and the Son Very and Eternal God 6. Of the sufficiency of the Holy Scriptures for Salvation Article 6 Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to Salvation so that whatsoever is not read therein nor may be proved thereby is not to be required of any man that it should be believed as an Article of the Faith or be thought requisite or necessary to Salvation In the name of the Holy Scripture we do understand those Canonical Books of the Old and New Testament of whose Authority was never any doubt in the Church 7. Of the Old Testament Article 7 The Old Testament is not contrary to the New for both in the Old and New Testament everlasting Life is offered to Mankind by Christ who is the onely Mediator between God and man being both God and man wherefore they are not to be heard which fain that the old Fathers did look only for transitory promises although the Law given from God by Moses as touching Ceremonies and Rites does not bind Christian men nor the civil precepts thereof ought of necessity to be received in any Common-wealth yet notwithstanding no Christian man whatsoever is free from the obedience of the Commandments which are called moral 8. Of the three Creeds Article 8 The three Creeds Nice Creed Athanasius Creed and that which is commonly called the Apostles Creed ought throughly to be received and believed for they may be proved by most certain Warrants of Holy Scripture 9. Of Original or Birth-sin Article 9 Original sin standeth not in the following of Adam as the Pelagians do vainly talk but it is the fault and corruption of the Nature of every man that naturally is ingendred of the Off-spring of Adam whereby man is very far gone from Original Righteousness and is inclined to evil so that the flesh lusteth against the Spirit and therefore in every Person born into the World it deserveth Gods wrath and damnation And this Infection of Nature doth remain yea in them that are Regenerated whereby the Lust of the Flesh called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which some do expound the wisdom some sensuality some the affection some the desire of the Flesh is not subject to the Law of God And although there is no condemnation for them that Believe and are Baptized yet the Apostle doth confess that concupiscence and lust hath of it self the Nature of sin 10. Of free Will Article 10 The condition of Man after the fall of Adam is such that he cannot turn and prepare himself by his own Natural strength and good works to Faith and calling upon God wherefore we have no power to doe good Works pleasant and acceptable to God without the grace of God preventing us that we may have a good Will and Working with us when we have that good Will 11. Of the Justification of Man Article 11 We are accounted Righteous before God only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Faith and not for our own works or deservings Wherefore that we are justified by Faith only is a most wholesome Doctrine and very full of comfort as more largely is expressed in the Homily of Justification 12. Of good Works Article 12 Albeit That works which are the Fruits of Faith and follow after Justification cannot put away our sins and endure the severity of God's Judgment yet are they pleasing and acceptable to God in Christ and do spring out necessarily of a true and a lively Faith insomuch that by them a lively Faith may be as evidently known as a Tree discerned by the Fruit. 13. Of Works before Justification Article 13 Works done before the Grace of Christ and the Inspiration of his Spirit are not pleasing to God forasmuch as they spring not of Faith in Jesus Christ neither do they make Men meet to receive Grace or as the School Authors say deserve Grace of Congruity Yea rather for that they are not done as God hath willed and commanded them to be done we doubt not but they have the Nature of sin 14. Of Works of Supererogation Article 14 Voluntary Works besides over and above God's Commandments which they call Works of Supererogation cannot be taught without Arrogancy and Impiety for by them Men do declare that they do not only render unto God as much as they are bound to do but that they doe more for

his sake then of bounden duty is required Whereas Christ saith plainly when ye have done all that are commanded to you say we be unprofitable Servants 15. Of Christ alone without sin Article 15 Christ in the truth of our Nature made like unto us in all things sin only excepted from which he was clearly void both in his Life and in his Spirit he came to be the Lamb without spot who by Sacrifice of himself once made should take away the sins of the World and sin as S. John saith was not in him but all we the the rest although Baptized and Born again in Christ yet offend in many things and if we say we have no sin we deceive our selves and the truth is not in us 16. Of sin after Baptism Article 16 Not every deadly sin willingly committed after Baptism is sin against the Holy-Ghost and unpardonable wherefore the grant of Repentance is not to be denied to such as fall into sin after Baptism after we have received the Holy Ghost we may depart from grace given and fall into sin and by the grace of God we may arise again and amend our Lives and therefore they are to be condemned which say they can no more sin as long as they live here or deny the place of forgiveness to such as truly Repent 17. Of Predestination and Election Article 17 Predestination to life is the everlasting purpose of God whereby before the foundations of the World were laid he hath constantly decreed by his Counsel secret to us to deliver from curse and damnation those whom he hath chosen in Christ out of Mankind and to bring them by Christ to everlasting Salvation as Vessels made to honour wherefore they which be indued with so excellent a Benefit of God be called according to God's purpose by his Spirit working in due season they through grace obey the calling they be justified freely they be made Sons of God by Adoption they be made like the Image of his only begotten Son Jesus Christ they walk Religiously in good Works and at length by God's mercy they attain to everlasting Felicity As the Godly consideration of Predestination and our Election in Christ is full of sweet pleasant and unspeakable Comfort to godly persons and such as feel in themselves the working of the Spirit of Christ mortifying the works of the Flesh and their earthly Members and drawing up their minds to high and heavenly things as well because it doth greatly establish and confirm their Faith of Eternal Salvation to be enjoyed through Christ as because it doth fervently kindle their Love towards God so for curious and carnal persons lacking the Spirit of Christ to have continually before their Eyes the Sentence of God's predestination is a most dangerous downfal whereby the Devil doth thrust them into desperation or into wretchlesness of most unclean Living no less perilo us than desperation Furthermore we must receive God's promises in such wise as they be generally set forth to us in Holy Scripture and in our doings that will of God is to be followed which we have expresly declared unto us in the word of God 18. Of obtaining Eternal Salvation only by the Name of Christ Article 18 They are also to be had accursed that presume to say that every man shall be saved by the Law or Sect which he professeth so that he be diligent to frame his Life according unto that Law and the light of Nature for Holy Scripture doth set out unto us only in the Name of Jesus Christ whereby men must be saved 19. Of the Church Article 19 The visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men in the which the pure word of God is preached and Sacraments be duly Ministred according to Christ's Ordinance in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same as the Church of Jerusalem Alexandria and Antioch hath erred so also the Church of Rome hath erred not only in their living and manner of Ceremonies but also in matter of Faith 20. Of the Authority of the Church Article 20 The Church hath power to decree Rites or Ceremonies and Authority in controversies of Faith and yet it is not lawful for the Church to ordain any thing that is contrary to God's word neither may it so expound one place of Scripture that it be repugnant to another wherefore although the Church be a witness and keeper of Holy writ yet as it ought not to decree any thing against the same so besides the same ought it not to inforce any thing to be believed for necessity of Salvation 21. Of the Authority of General Councils Article 21 General Councils may not be gathered together without the commandment and will of Princes and when they be gathered together for as much as they be an assembly of men whereof all be not governed with the Spirit and word of God they may err and some time have erred even in things pertaining unto God wherefore things ordained by them as necessary to Salvation have neither strength nor authority unless it may be declared that they be taken out of Holy Scripture 22. Of Purgatory Article 22 The Romish Doctrine concerning Purgatory Pardons Worshiping and Adoration as well of Images as of Reliques and also of Invocation of Saints is a fond thing vainly invented and grounded upon no warranty of Scripture but rather repugnant to the word of God 23. Of Ministring in the Congregation Article 23 It is not lawful for any man to take upon him the Office of publick preaching or ministring the Sacraments in the Congregation before he be lawfully called and sent to execute the same And those we ought to Judge lawfully called and sent which be chosen and called to this work by men who have publick Authority given unto them in the Congregation to call and send Ministers into the Lord's Vineyard 24. Of speaking in the Congregation in such a Tongue as the people understand not Article 24 It is a thing plainly repugnant to the word of God and the custome of the primitive Church to have publick Prayers in the Church or to Minister the Sacraments in a Tongue not understood of the people 25. Of the Sacraments Article 25 Sacraments ordained of Christ be not Badges or Tokens of Christian mens profession but rather they be certain sure Witnesses and effectual Signs of Grace and Gods good will toward us by which he doth work invisibly in us and not only quicken but also strengthen and confirm our Faith in him There be two Sacraments ordained of Christ our Lord in the Gospel that is to say Baptism and the Supper of the Lord those five commonly called Sacraments that is to say Confirmation Penance Orders Matrimony and extream Unction are not to be counted for Sacraments of the Gospel being such as have grown partly of the corrupt following of the Apostles partly as States of Life allowed in the Scriptures but yet have not like nature of Sacraments with