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<DIV1 TYPE="title page">
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<P>THE ORDER AND FORME FOR <HI>CHURCH GOVERNMENT</HI> By Bi&s;hops and the Clergie of this Kingdome.</P>
<P>Voted in the Hou&s;e of <HI>Commons</HI> on Friday, JULY 16, 1641.</P>
<P>Whereunto is added MR. <HI>GRIMSTONS</HI> and Mr. <HI>SELDENS</HI> Arguments concerning EPISCOPACIE.</P>
<P><HI>Printed Anno,</HI> 1641.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="ecclesiastical ordinances">
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<HEAD>THE ORDER</HEAD>
<P>For Church-Government in the Hou&s;e of COMMONS, <DATE>Saturday 17, <HI>July,</HI> 1641.</DATE></P>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Imprimis.</HEAD>
<P>Every &s;everall Shire of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Wal<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="2 letters"></HI> to be a &s;everall Circuite or Dioce&s;&s;e, f<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="2 letters"> the Eccle&s;ia&s;tick Juri&s;diction except in <HI>Yorke&s;hire</HI> which is to be divided into three.</P>
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<HEAD>II.</HEAD>
<P>A Con&s;tant Presbyterie of Twelve choi&s;e Divines to be &s;elected in every Shire or Dioce&s;&s;e.</P>
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<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>III.</HEAD>
<P>A Con&s;tant Pre&s;ident to be e&s;tablished as Bi&s;hop over this Presbyterie.</P>
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<DIV2 N="4" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>IV.</HEAD>
<P>This Bi&s;hop in each Dioce&s;&s;e to ordaine &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="2+ letters"> &s;pend, deprive, degrade, Excommunicate by: a<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="2 letters"> with the con&s;ent and a&s;&s;i&s;tance of &s;eaven Divines <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1 word"> his Presybyterie then pre&s;ent and not otherwi&s;e.</P>
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<DIV2 N="5" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>V.</HEAD>
<P>The times or Ordination throughout the land to
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be foure times every yeere, <HI>viz.</HI> 1 <HI>May,</HI> and 1 <HI>Au|gu&s;t,</HI> 1 <HI>Novemb.</HI> &amp; 1 <HI>February.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 N="6" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>VI.</HEAD>
<P><HI>6</HI> Every Bi&s;hop con&s;tantly to re&s;ide within his <HI>Dioce&s;&s;e,</HI> in &s;ome one prime, or chiefe City or Towne within his Dioce&s;&s;e, as in particular.</P>
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<DIV2 N="7" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>VII.</HEAD>
<P>Every Bi&s;hop to have one &s;peciall particular <HI>Congregation,</HI> to be cho&s;en out of the mo&s;t conveni|ent for di&s;tance of place, from his chiefe re&s;idence, and the riche&s;t in value that may be had: when he &s;hall duely preach, ule&s;&s;e he be lawfully hindred, and then shall take care that his Cure be well &s;up|pplyed by another.</P>
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<DIV2 N="8" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>VIII.</HEAD>
<P>No Bi&s;hop &s;hall remove or bee tran&s;lated from the Bi&s;hopricke which he &s;hall fir&s;t undertake.</P>
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<DIV2 N="9" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>IX.</HEAD>
<P>Upon every death, or other avoidance of a Bi&s;hop, the King to grant a <HI>Conge d'elire</HI> to the whole Cergie of that Dioce&s;&s;e, and they to pre&s;ent three of the <HI>Presbyters</HI> afore&s;aid, and the King to choo&s;e and nominate whom he plea&s;e of them.</P>
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<DIV2 N="10" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>X.</HEAD>
<P>The fir&s;t <HI>resbyters</HI> of every &s;hire to bee named by the <HI>Parliament,</HI> and afterwards upon the death, or other avoidance of any <HI>Presbyter,</HI> the remaining <HI>Presbyters</HI> to choo&s;e another out of
the <HI>Pari&s;h</HI>
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Mini&s;ters of that &s;hire, and this to bee done within one month next after &s;uch death or avoidance.</P>
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<DIV2 N="11" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>XI.</HEAD>
<P>No Bi&s;hop or Clergie-man to exerci&s;e or have any <HI>Temporall Office,</HI> or <HI>&s;ecular employment,</HI> but one|ly, for the pre&s;ent, to hold and keepe the probate of wills, untill the <HI>Parliament</HI> &s;hall otherwi&s;e re&s;olve.</P>
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<DIV2 N="12" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>XII.</HEAD>
<P>The Bi&s;hop once a yeare (at Mid&s;ummer) to &s;ummon a <HI>Dioce&s;an Synod,</HI> there to heare, and by ge|nerall vote, to determine all &s;uch matter of &s;candall in Life and Doctrine among the Clergie-men, as &s;hall be pre&s;ented unto them.</P>
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<DIV2 N="13" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>XIII.</HEAD>
<P>Every three yeares, a <HI>Nationall Synod to be,</HI> which for per&s;ons &s;hall con&s;i&s;t of all the Bi&s;hops in the Land, and of two <HI>Presbyters</HI> to be cho&s;en by the re&s;t out of each <HI>Presbytery,</HI> and of two <HI>Clarkes</HI> to be cho|&s;en out of every Dioce&s;&s;e, by the <HI>Clergie</HI> thereof.</P>
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<DIV2 N="14" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>XIV.</HEAD>
<P>This <HI>Nationall Synod</HI> to make and ordaine <HI>Ca|nons</HI> of the <HI>Government</HI> of the <HI>Church,</HI> but they not to bind untill they be confirmed by <HI>Parliament.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 N="15" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>XV.</HEAD>
<P>Every Bi&s;hop to have over and above the Be|nefice afore&s;aid, a certaine con&s;tant Rent allowed
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and allotted proportionall to the Dioce&s;&s;e where|in he is to Officiate, that is to &s;ay, every <HI>Presbyter</HI> to have a con&s;tant yearely profit above his Be|nefice.</P>
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<DIV2 N="16" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>XVI.</HEAD>
<P>As for the Revenue of the Bi&s;hops, Deanes, and Chapters, &amp;c. a &s;trict Survey to be taken of all their rents and profits, and the &s;ame to be repre&s;en|ted at the beginning of our next Convention, and in the meane time no Lea&s;e to be renewed, nor Tim|ber to be felled.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="dialogue">
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<HEAD><HI>Mr.</HI> GRIMSTONS Argument concerning Bi&s;hops.</HEAD>
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<P><LABEL>I.</LABEL>
<HI>THat Bi&s;hops</HI> Jure Divino, <HI>is of que&s;tion.</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>II.</LABEL>
<HI>That Arch-bi&s;hops are not</HI> Jure Divino, <HI>is out of que&s;tion.</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>III.</LABEL>
<HI>That Mini&s;ters are</HI> Jure Divino, <HI>there is no que&s;tion.</HI></P>
<P>Now if Bi&s;hops which are que&s;tioned, whether <HI>Jure Divino,</HI> and Arch-bi|&s;hops which out of que&s;tion are not <HI>Jure Divino</HI>; &s;u&s;pend Mini&s;ters that are <HI>Jure Divino,</HI> I leave it to you Mr. <HI>Speaker.</HI></P>
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<HEAD><HI>Mr.</HI> SELDENS <HI>An&s;wer.</HI></HEAD>
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<P><HI>THat the Convocation is</HI> Jure Divino, <HI>is a que|&s;tion.</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>II.</LABEL>
<HI>That Parliament are not</HI> Jure Divino, <HI>is out of que&s;tion.</HI></P>
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<P><LABEL>3.</LABEL> <HI>That Religion is Jure Divino, there is no que&s;tion.</HI></P>
<P>Now Mr. <HI>Speaker,</HI> that the <HI>Convocation,</HI> which is que&s;tioned, whether <HI>Jure Divino,</HI> and <HI>Parliaments,</HI> which out of que&s;tion are not <HI>Jure Divino,</HI> &s;hould meddle with Religion, which que&s;tionle&s;&s;e, is <HI>Jure Di|vino,</HI> I leave to you, Mr. <HI>Speaker.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>Mr. GRIMSTONS Reply.</HEAD>
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<P><HI>But Arch-Bi&s;hops are no Bi&s;hops.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>Mr. SELDENS An&s;wer,</HEAD>
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<P><HI>That's no otherwi&s;e true, then that Judges are not Lawyers, and Aldermen not Citizens.</HI></P>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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