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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00089	Constitutions and canons ecclesiasticall; treated upon by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, presidents of the convocations for the respective provinces of Canterbury and York, and the rest of the bishops and clergie of those provinces; and agreed upon with the Kings Majesties licence in their severall synods begun at London and York. 1640 ...; Constitutions and canons ecclesiastical	Church of England.	1640 (1640)	STC 10080; ESTC R212834	20,991	54

Synod against the Books of Socinianisme shall also extend to the makers importers printers and publishers or dispersers of any Book writing or scandalous Pamphlet devised against the discipline and government of the Church of England and unto the maintainers and abettors of any opinion or doctrine against the same And further because there are sprung up among us a sort of factious people despisers and depravers of the Book of Common prayer who do not according to the Law resort to their parish Church or Chappel to joyn in the publique prayers service and worship of God with the congregation contenting themselves with the hearing of Sermons onely thinking thereby to avoid the penalties due to such as wholly absent themselves from the Church We therefore for the restraint of all such wilfull contemners or neglecters of the Service of God do ordain that the Church or Chappell Wardens and Questmen or Sidemen of every parish shall be carefull to enquire out all such disaffected p●rsons and shall present the names of all such d●linquents at all Visitations of Bishops and other Ordinaries And that the same proceedings and penalties m●ntioned in the Canon aforesaid respectively shall be used against them as against oth●r Recusants unlesse within one whole moneth after they are ●irst denounced they shall make acknowledgement and reformation of that their fault Provided alwayes that this Canon shall not derogat● from any other Canon Law or Statute in that behalf provided against those Sectaries VI An Oath injoyn'd for the preventing of all Innovations in Doctrine and Government THis present Synod being desirous to declare their sincerity and constancie in the profession of the Doctrine and Discipline already established in the Church of England and to secure all men against any suspition of revolt to Poperie or any other superstition decrees that all Arch-bishops and Bishops and all other Priests and Deacons in places ●xempt or not exempt shall before the second day of November next ensuing● take this Oath following against all Innovation of Doctrine or Discipline and this Oath shall be tendred them and every of them and all others named after in this Canon by the Bishop in person or his Chancelour or some grave Divines named and appointed by the Bishop under his seal and the said Oath shall be taken in the presence of a publique Notarie who is hereby r●quired to make an Act of it leaving the Universities to the Provision which followes The Oath is I A. B. Do swear That I do approve the Doctrine and Discipline or Government established in the Church of England as containing all things necessary to salvation And that I will not endeavour by my self or any other directly or indirectly to bring in any Popish Doctrine contrary to that which is so established Nor will I ever give my consent to alt●r the Government of this Church by Arch-bishops Bishops Deanes and Arch-deacons c. as it stands now established and as by right it ought to stand nor yet ever to subject it to the usurpations and superstitions of the Sea of Rome And all these things I do plainly and sincerely acknowledge and swear according to the plain and common sence and understanding of the same words without any equivocation o● mentall evasion or secret r●servation whatsoever And this I do heartily willingly and truely upon the faith of a Christian So help me God in Jesus Christ And if any man Benefic●d or Dignified in the Church of England or any oth●r Ecclesiasticall p●rson shall refuse to take this Oath the Bishop shall give him a moneths time to inform hims●lf and at the moneths end if he refuse to take it he shall be suspended ab Officio and have a second moneth granted and if then he refuse to take it he shall b● suspended ab O●fi●io Beneficio and have a third moneth granted him for his better information but if at the end of that moneth he refuse to take the Oath above-named he shall by the Bishop be deprived of all his Eccl●siasticall Promotions whatsoever and execution of his function which he holds in the Church of England And we likewise Constitute and Ordain That all Masters of Arts the sons of Noble-men onely excepted all Bachelours and Doctors in Divinity Law or Physick all that are licenced to practise Physick all Registers Actuaries and Proctors all School-masters all such as being natives or naturalized do come to be incorporated into the Universities here having taken a Degree in any forraign Unive●sity shall be bound to take the said Oath And we command all Governours of Colledges and Halls in either of the Universities that they administer this said Oath to all persons resident in their severall Houses that have taken the degrees before mentioned in this Canon within six moneths after the publication hereof And we likewise Constitute That all Bishops shall be bound to give the said Oath unto all those to whom they give holy Orders at the time of their Ordination or to whomsoever they give Collation Institution or Licence to Preach or serve any Cure VII A Declaration concerning some Rites and Ceremonies BEcause it is generally to be wished that unity of Faith were accompanied with uniformity of practis● in the outward worship and service of God chiefly for the avoiding of groundlesse suspit●ons of those who are weak and the malicious aspersions of the professed enemies of our Religion the one fearing Innovations the other flattering themselves with a vain hope of our backslidings unto their Popish superstition by reason of the situation of the Communion Table and the approaches thereunto the Synod declareth as followeth● That the standing of the Communion Table side-way under the East window of every Chancell or Chappell is in its own nature indifferent neither commanded nor condemned by the Word of God either expresly or by immediate deduction and therefore that no Religion is to be placed therein or scruple to be made thereon And albeit at the time of reforming this Church from that grosse superstition of Popery it was carefully provided that all meanes should be used to root out of the mindes of the people both the inclination thereunto and memory therof especially of the Idolatry committed in the Masse for which cause all Popish Altars were demolished yet notwithstanding it was then ordered by the Injunctions and Advertisements of Queen Elizabeth of bless●d memory that the holy Tables should stand in the place where the Altars stood and accordingly have been continued in the Royall Chappells of three famous and pious Princes and in most Cathedrall and some Parochiall Churches which doth sufficiently acquit the manner of placing the said Tables from any illegality or just suspition of Popish superstition or innovation And therefore we judge it fit and convenient that all Churches and Chappels do conform themselves in this particular to the example of the Cathedral or Mother Churches saving alwaies the generall liberty left to the Bishop by Law during the time