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<Q>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
</FIGURE> &leaf; By the King.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">&leaf; A Proclamation for the confirmation of all Authorized Orders, tending to the Vniuer&s;all publi&s;hing and teaching, of a certaine Religious Treati&s;e, compiled by Authority, and Intituled by the Name of GOD, And the KING.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_WHereas the Oath of Allegiance deui&s;ed by Our</HI> Parliament, and defended by Our <HI>Royal Penne,</HI> hath not onely bene im|pugned by Contradiction, but al&s;o hath bene endeuoured to be made fru|&s;trate, by diuers &s;ecret practizes, and deuices, whereby either to di&s;wade Our Subiects from the taking of the &s;ame, or otherwi&s;e to make them take it onely in di&s;&s;imulation, to anoyd the penalties of Law, inflicted vpon the refu&s;er: Wee in Our Princely Wi&s;edome, calling to minde that the terrour of Lawes without In&s;truction and Education, is but an vnperfect remedie; haue thought good, That there &s;hould be coupled a briefe and per&s;picuous Booke or Treati&s;e, Intituled, <HI>GOD AND THE KING,</HI> Or a Diologue, &s;hewing that Our Soueraigne Lord King <HI>IAMES,</HI> being immediate vnder <HI>GOD,</HI> within his Dominions, doeth rightfully claime what&s;oeuer is re|quired by <HI>The Oath of Allegiance:</HI> fit for the capacitie of Youth, whereby in their tender yeeres, the trueth of that Doctrine may be bred and &s;ettled in them, and thereby they the better armed, and prepared to with&s;tand any per&s;wa&s;ions which in their riper yeeres, may be offered and v&s;ed to|wards them, for the corrupting of them, in their duetie and Allegiance; And al&s;o, may preuent and anoyd their incurring the danger of Our Lawes for refu&s;ing the &s;ame. And although, We haue by Our &s;peciall Direction, recommended vnto Our right tru&s;tie and welbeloued Coun&s;ai|lour, the <HI>Lord Archbi&s;hop of Canterbury,</HI> and to the re&s;t of the Bi&s;hops of the Realme, to giue order for the vniuer&s;all di&s;per&s;ing, and teaching of all Youth in the &s;aid Booke; Yet, for the better ef|fecting of Our Princely purpo&s;e therein, We doe by the&s;e pre&s;ents, &s;traightly charge and com|mand, all Our louing Subiects, to obey &s;uch Direction and Order, as by the &s;aid <HI>Lord Archbi&s;hop of Canterbury, Lord Archbi&s;hop of Yorke,</HI> or other the Bi&s;hops of Our Realme, &s;halbe taken, for and concerning the publi&s;hing and teaching of the &s;ame: Vpon paine, both of &s;uch Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall Cen|&s;ure, as in the like ca&s;es are to be inflicted; And al&s;o of Our Princely Indignation, and &s;uch other puni&s;hment, as by the Law and Our Prerogatiue Royall, &s;halbe due again&s;t the contemners of this Our Royall Commandement.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Giuen at Theobalds <DATE>the eighth day of Nouember, in the thirteenth yeere of Our Raigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland, and of Scotland the nine and fourtieth.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God &s;aue the King.</CLOSER>
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<P>&leaf; Imprinted at London by ROBERT BARKER, Printer to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maie&s;tie. ANNO DOM. 1615.</P>
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