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A86477	Mr. Hollis his speech to the Lords in Parliament concerning peace. With a motion for some course to be taken for repairing of trade, that so poore tradesmen may be preserved to hold out during these troublesome times. Whereunto is added a relation of a vision of blood in the skie, that appeared about Redding on Tuesday night last.	Holles, Denzil Holles, Baron, 1599-1680.	1643 (1643)	Wing H2478; Thomason E90_18; ESTC R19938	15,536	34

hasten it by the advice of both the Colloques Art 3. In every Synode there shall be chosen a Minister to governe the action and a Scribe to register the actions Art 4. The Minister of the place where the assembly is made shall make a prayer in the beginning of the first sitting Art 5. The Colloques shall mutually advertise one another of the generall things they have to propose to the Synode in commodious time to this end that every one may have time to think of it more ripely And they shall give some advertisement thereof before the Colloque which goeth next before the Synode so farre as they may And as for things of smaller importance they shall be communicated of in the day of the first sitting These Articles touching the Discipline are so set downe that so much and so farre as they are grounded upon the Word of God they are immoveable And as for the points that are meerely Ecclesiasticall that is to say framed and set downe for the commoditie of the Church according to the circumstance of persons time and place they may be changed by the same authoritie they have been instituted Here followeth the manner of Installing the Officers of the Church The Promise in generall YOu promise before God his elect Angels and his Church that you will serve him faithfully in this Office taking heed to your selfe to this end that in this vocation of God you may walke worthily so as it becommeth a good servant of God without abusing it to serve your owne affections or to be pleasing unto men but that you use it with a good consciente carrying all that you doe in this office to the glory of God and to the edification of the Church principally of that over which you are set giving in all things good example unto all namely in keeping and taking good heed to the pollicy as well Ecclesiasticall as Civill procuring the good and honour of the Kingdome of England and of the I le taking paines that the people may live in good order peace and union one with another and in subjection and obedience to the Government of his Majestie the right Worshipfull the Governours his Lieftenant the Bailiefe and the Justices not consenting to any thing which is repugnant to the Lawes Civill Pollicy of the Countrey and Kingdome and the Ecclesiasticall Censures All which you shall doe so farre as your office doth require that is to say without being prejudiciall to the libertie of a good conscience Furthermore You shall not abandon or leave off your Charge for any discontentment or tediousnesse or any thing whatsoever unlesse it be by the consent of the Consistory or other to whom it appertaineth At which Consistory you shall attend if there be no hinderance the Sunday after the Catechisme to handle the Ecclesiasticall affaires And you shall take heed of not disclosing any thing that hath been handled to the parties or any other persons unlesse it be that they ought to know it in paine of being rejected from the Company Remembring alwayes that you must render an account of the charge which hath been committed unto you to the end that you may heare his most amiable voice It is well done good servant enter into the joy of thy Lord Finally that which toucheth you most neerly in regard of the particular charge you are called unto Promises Common to Ministers of the Word of God and to the Elders YOu doe promise that you will feed and governe the flocke of Christ which is committed unto you which is his house according to the pollicy that our Lord Jesus Christ hath established in his Church in having a care not by constraint but willingly and with a ready courage not for gaine or unseemely honour but onely having regard to the glory of God and to the salvation of the people Not raigning over the Church but in humilitie and feare following the Word of God You promise also to have an eye and watch upon the flocke to admonish and comfort in particular according as neede requires Also to reprehend the private faults and to bring to the Consistorie the publick faults to the end the scandalls of the Church may be hindred You shall attend the Colloques and Synodes at all times when you shall be deputed thereunto revealing nothing of that which hath been handled to the parties or any of the persons unlesse they ought to know it upon paine to be rejected from the company You promise to take carefull heed of the accompts of the Deacons at the Communion day or at least at the Communion dayes of September and Easter and that after the second Sermon of the Sabbath in which day ordinarily there is no Consistorie kept or else the Sunday following according to the opportunitie of the Church A Promise particular to the Minister of the Word YOu promise that you will deliver the most holy Word and Sacraments of God in all faithfulnesse purenesse and reverence that you will take paines in teaching the people which are capable in convincing those which contradict in casting downe the proud in erecting and lifting up the humble in bringing againe those that are strayed out of the way in cutting rightly the word of truth as a good workman which needeth not be ashamed and as a good and wise Steward of the House of the Lord distributing the spirituall meate as well to every one apart according to his abilitie as in common to all the family You shall doe this in all diligence being earnest in time and out of time And for this cause you promise to follow with all care and diligence all meanes and helpes of studie things proper to execute honour your said Ministery which notwithstanding shall be done in all simplicitie and easinesse as well in words as in sentences to this end that the rudest and most unlearned and the Church may be edified by it Above all you shall imploy your selfe in studying the holy Scriptures to this end that being well instructed touching the Kingdome of Heaven you may be like a good Father of a Family who is able to draw out of his treasure both old and new things A Promise particular to the Elders YOu promise to be assistant unto the Ministers of the Word for the Government of the Church over the which you are appointed and shall take heed to the Ministery of the Word First that the Church be not unprovided and that being established it may be reverenced and therefore you shall have an eye to them as well for the holy doctrine as for their holinesse of life and afterwards upon the rest of the Church especially upon those which are committed more neerly to your charge And therefore if there shall come any discord between any of your quarter you shall endeavour to accord them by good and brotherly advisement and if they will not obey you shall summon them to come to the Consistorie to have some convenient remedy thereof

the Lords Supper Art 8. They shall advertise the people at the least fifteene dayes before the Lords Supper to the end they may be prepared for it Art 9. Besides the former examination which is made of the doctrine before they communicate unto the holy Supper every one ought againe to be catechised once a yeare at the least according to the commoditie of the Ministers and Parishioners CHAP. XI Of the Fast Article I THe publike fast shall be celebrated in the Church what time the Colloque or Synode shall thinke it meete as a day of rest in which there shall be Sermons in the forenoone and afternoone with prayers the reading of the word of God and singing of Psalmes all most meete for the occasions and causes of the Fast and all by the authoritie of the Magistrate Of Thankesgiving Art 2. The solemne thankesgiving must be celebrated in like manner as the Fast all the exercises being fitted to the occasions and causes of it CHAP. XII Of Marriage Article I. THe promises of Marriages shall be made in the presence of the Parents friends Governours or Masters or Mistresses of the parties and with consent of them and in the presence of the Minister or of one Elder or Deacon who shall receive the promises pure and simple with invocation of the name of God otherwise they shall not be received And as for those that are at their owne libertie the presence of the Minister or one of the Elders or Deacons is also necessary for the policie Art 2. The children and those which are under Government cannot make any promise of Marriage without the consent of their Fathers and Mothers or of their Tutors or of their Gardians in whose power they are Art 3. If the Fathers and Mothers are so unreasonable that they will not accord to so holy a thing the Consistory shall give them such advice as shall be expedient to the which if the Fathers and Mothers will not agree they shall have recourse to the Magistrate Art 4. Even those which have beene married owe this honour to their parents not to marry themselves without the advice of their parents for want whereof they shall be censured Art 5. Those which shall be betrothed shall promise with their parents that they shal be married within three moneths after their promises are made or within six moneths in case they be in a voyage And if they will not obey they shall be pursued by the Ecclesiasticall Censures Art 6. No stranger shall be betrothed unlesse he have leave of the Right Worshipfull the Governours or their Leiftenants Art 7. In marriages the degrees of consanguinitie and affinitie shall be diligently observed according to the law of God Art 8. The publication of Matrimony shall be declared three Sundayes one after another immediately in the Church where the parties dwells or if they marry in some other Parish they shall bring good testimony from the Minister that shall have published them otherwise they cannot be married Art 9. To avoyde the abuse and prophanation of the day of Rest and the manifest contempt of the Word of God which is made in the marriage-dayes it is thought good that marriage be no more celebrated upon Sunday but on the weeke dayes onely when there is a Sermon Art 10. If any will oppose himselfe against the publication of Matrimony they must addresse themselves to the Minister first or to two of the Elders which shall signifie it to the next Consistory to come and give the reasons of his opposition Of which the Consistory shall judge And if there be any appeale it shall be referred to the Colloque Art 11. Those which have companied together before they are married shall not be married before they have made confession of their fault and if the fault be openly knowne they shall doe it before all the Church And if it be lesse knowne the Consistory shall give order for it Art 12. The promises of Widdowes that would remarry themselves shall not be received but six moneths after the death of their deceased husband that both for the honestie and well seemlinesse and to meet with many inconveniences As for the men they shall be exhorted to stay a certain time also without constraining them thereunto CHAP. XIII Of the Visitation of the sicke Article I. THose which have sicke folke shall advertise those which have charge in the Church in commodious time to this end that they may be visited and comforted Art 2. Those which are sicke shall be advertised to make their will in good time and whilst they are in their good sense which shall be done in the presence of the Minister or Elder or some other able men and worthy of faith which shall seale the said Testament to this end they may be approved CHAP. XIV Of Buriall Article I. THe dead bodies shall not be brought nor made enter into the Churches but into the Church-yard ordained for the faithfull Art 2. The kinsfolke friends and neighbours of the dead and as many as the kinsfolkes will pray even the Ministers if they be at leisure as members of the Church and brethren not in regard of their charge no more than the Elders and Deacons and shall goe to conduct the dead corps for the comelinesse of the buriall At the which there shall be neither Sermon nor prayer nor ringing of Bells neither any kinde of other ceremony Art 3. The dead shall not be buried without advertising of the Minister before Art 4. The dead corps of those which are excommunicated shall not be buried among the faithfull without ordinance of the Magistrate CHAPTER XV Of Ecclesiasticall Censures Article I. ALL those which are of the Church shall be subject to the censures as well those which have charge in the Church as those which have no charge Art 2. The suspention from the holy Supper of the Lord shal be published only in matter of heresie schisme or other notable fault of which the Consistorie shall judge Art 3. Those which shall not receive the advertisements and reprehensions of faults made by the Word of God and which continue hardened without hope of being brought into the right way after many exhortations if they cannot be brought againe they shall be excommunicated whereunto shall be proceeded by three Sundayes according to the order as followeth Art 4. The first Sunday every one shall be exhorted to pray for the sinner without naming or declaring the sinne or the sinner Art 5. The second Sunday the sinner shall be named and not the sinne the third Sunday the sinner shall be named and the sinne declared and he excommunicated which shall so continue as long as he remaineth rebellious Art 6. Those which are excommunicated are rejected of the Church that they ought not to be admitted either to publick prayers or unto the preaching of the Word Art 7. If any having publick charge in the Church shall commit any fault which in a private person meriteth publick

suspention from the Lords Supper they shall be suspended from their charge and if they commit any fault the which in a private person meriteth excommunication they shall be deposed Art 8. And likewise those which have committed any such fault by the which they are made uncapable of exercising their charge to the edification of the Church shall be deposed Art 9. If the sinner commeth to repentance desiring of the Consistory to be received to the peace of the Church diligent information must be had of his conversation and shall advise the people thereof the Sunday before he be received and make confession to have peace of the Church Art 10. The second Sunday he shall present himselfe before the Pulpit and shall confesse his fault asking pardon of God and of the Church by his owne mouth in ratifying onely that which the Minister shall have said of his repentance CHAP. XVI Of the Ecclesiasticall Assemblies for the guiding and governing of the Church Article I. IN all Ecclesiasticall Assemblies the Ministers shall be Moderators to gather the voyces to impose silence and to give sentence according to the pluralitie and to give the Censures to the which they shall be subject as well as others Art 2. All Censures shall be done in meeknesse of spirit and doctrine Art 3. All Assemblies shall be begun and ended by prayers and thankesgiving and it shall be done by him that is then Moderator Art 4. All those which there shall be assistant shall speake by order without interrupting one of the other Art 5. None shall depart from the Assembly without leave Art 6. All Ecclesiasticall matters there shall be intreated of and decided by the Word of God without taking upon them any civill Jurisdiction Art 7. If there come any matter of importance which cannot be decided in the lesser Assemblies they shall be sent to the greater And likewise if any man doe feele himselfe grieved with the judgement of the lesser he may appeale to the greater And there shall be nothing in the greater handled which hath not been handled before in the lesser unlesse it be in a matter which is remitted Art 8. For all the things that are memorable in all the Assemblies there shall be a Register made which shall be done by a Scribe appointed in every one of the Assemblies Art 9. The Ecclesiasticall Assemblies shall not be daysmen in causes and matters civill yet the particular members of it as private persons may but yet very rarely when it is for making an end of debate and the same of great consequence Art 10. He which hath been deprived of the Communion or suspended from his Charge by an assembly shall be reestablished by the same These Assemblies are either simple or compound simple as the Consistories CHAP. XVII Of the Consistories Article I. THe Consistory is the assembly of the Ministers and Elders of every Church for the Government of it and to watch over the manners and doctrine and to correct the vices and encourage the well-doers where the Deacons together with the proposants may be assistant to the Ministers to the end to fashion them in the discipline and guiding of the Church Art 2. The Consistories are to be assembled every Sunday or other dayes and houres ordained according to the commoditie of the Consistories to consult of the affaires of the Church Art 3. None shall be called to the Consistory without the advice of the Minister and of two Elders in case of necessitie at the least and every Elder or he that giveth sommance shall call them of his quarter as shall be ordained Art 4. The Elders shall not report the secret faults not having observed the order commanded by Jesus Christ Matth. 18. Reprehending in secret the faults that are secret Art 5. The Minister or Elders shall not name to the Consistorie those whose faults they shall bring to the Consistorie without the advice of the said Consistorie Art 6. The censures of the Consistorie shall be given before every Communion in the most commodious day wherein the School-Masters also shall be censured Art 7. The Consistorie shall choose those which ought to goe to the Colloques Art 8. The correction of faults and offences appertaineth to the Consistories excommunication excepted Art 9. In Ecclesiasticall Assemblies the Consistories shall make inquisition of the faults which shall come before them and shall adjure the parties in the name of God to speake the truth CHAP. XVIII Of the composed Assemblies which are the Colloques and the Synods Article I. AT the beginning of the Assembly there shall be called the Minister and the Elders which ought to be assistants there Art 2. The persons who are named to be assistants shall not misse to be present there upon paine to be censured at the next assembly unto the which they shall be called Art 3. The Articles of the former assemblies shall be read before they enter the affaires to the end to know if they have been executed And at the end of every assembly the Elders shall take a copie of that which hath been determined there to the end that all may walk after the same rule Art 4. In every Assembly there shall be a Scribe to write that which shall be resolved of by the Company Art 5. At the end of every assembly they shall give a brotherly censure of the Consistories in generall of the Ministers and Elders which shall be assistant there and principally of that which hath been done in the assembly during the action Art 6. The excommunication shall be onely concluded in these assemblies Art 7. The Masters the Justices shall be prayed to cease the exercise of Courts ordinary and extraordinarie in the dayes of the Colloques and Synods to this end that they which ought to be there assistant may not be hindred CHAP. XIX Of the Colloques Article I. THe Colloque in the Assembly of the Ministers and Ancients deputed of every Church in every one of the Governments of those Iles for the government and entertainment of the Discipline Art 2. The Colloques shall be assembled foure times in the yeare ten dayes before every Communion In which day there shall be the proposition of the Word of God following the forme which is before established in the Chapter of Ministers Art 3. The Ministers of Alderney and Sparke shall meet once a yeare at the least at the Colloque at Gernsey and they shall choose the most fit time to come in Art 4. The Colloque shall choose those which ought to goe to the Synode and shall give them Letters testimoniall of their sending CHAP. XX Of the Synods Article I. THe Synode is the Assemblie of Ministers and Elders deputed by the Colloques of these Iles. Art 2. The Synode shall be assembled from two yeares to two yeares in Gersey and Garnsey by course unlesse necessitie doe constraine to assemble it sooner In which case those of the I le where the Synode is to be holden may