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<P> AN ORDER MADE BY THE Hou&s;e of Commons, A&s;&s;embled in Parliament, for the E&s;tabli&s;hing of Preaching Le|cturers throughout the Kingdome of <HI>England</HI> and Dominion of <HI>Wales.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Whereunto is added,</HI> Thirty five con&s;iderations upon the Booke of Common Prayer, at a conference held by the Archbi&s;hop of <HI>Armagh,</HI> Doctor <HI>Pri|deaux,</HI> and divers other Learned Divines.</P>
<P>With &s;ixe Rea&s;ons why the Booke of Common Prayer being corrected &s;hould continue.</P>
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<P><HI>Al&s;o an Order by the Lords and Commons in Parliament, touching the Governement and Liturgie of the Church.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Hen. El&s;yng Cle. Parl. D.</HI> C</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>May</HI> 30. <HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>I. T.</HI> 1642.</P>
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<HEAD>&leaf; An Order made by the Hou&s;e of Commons, for preach|ing Lecturers in this Kingdome.</HEAD>
<P>IT is Ordered by the Hou&s;e of Commons now A&s;|&s;embled in Parliament, that it &s;hall be Lawfull for the Pari&s;hioners of any Pari&s;h within the King|dome of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Wales,</HI> to &s;et up a Lecture, and to maintaine an Orthodox Mini&s;ter, at their owne charge, to Preach every <HI>Lords day,</HI> where there is no Preaching: And to Preach one day in every weeke, where there is no weekely Lecture.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Hen. El&s;ynge. Cler. Parl.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>Con&s;iderations upon the Booke of Common Prayer.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. VVHether the names of &s;ome <HI>d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">parted Saints,</HI> and others &s;hould not be quite expugned the Ca|lender.</P>
<P N="2">2. Whether the reading of P&s;almes, &s;entences of Scripture concurring in divers places in the <HI>Hymnes, E<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">i&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">es,</HI> and <HI>Go&s;pels,</HI> &s;hould not bee &s;et out in the new tran&s;lation.</P>
<P N="3">3 Whether the Rubrique &s;hould not bee mended, where all we&s;tments in them of divine Service are now commanded which were u&s;ed. 2. <HI>Ed.</HI> 6.</P>
<P N="4"><PB N="4" REF="3"> 4. Whether Le&s;&s;ons of Canonicall Scripture &s;hould be put into the Calender in &s;tead of Apocrypha.</P>
<P N="5">5. That the <HI>Doxologie</HI> &s;hould be alwaies printed at the end of the Lords Prayer, and bee alwaies &s;aid by the Mini&s;ter.</P>
<P N="6">6. Whether the Rubrique may not be mended, where it is (that the Le&s;&s;ons &s;hould bee &s;ung in a plaine tune) why not (read with a di&s;tinct voyce.)</P>
<P N="7">7. Whether <HI>Gloria Patri</HI> &s;hould bee repeated at the end of every P&s;alme.</P>
<P N="8">8. Whether according to that end of the Preface be|fore the Common Prayer, the Curate &s;hould be bound to read Morning and Evening Prayers every day in the Church, if he beat home, and not rea&s;onably letted, <HI>and why not onely on Wedne&s;day,</HI> and friday morning, and in the afternoone on Saterdaies, with holiday eves.</P>
<P N="9">9. Whether the <HI>Hymnes, Benedicite omnia opera, &amp;c.</HI> may not be left out.</P>
<P N="10">10. In the Prayer for the Clergie, that phra&s;e per|haps to be altored <HI>(which onely worketh great marvells.)</HI></P>
<P N="11">11. In the Rubrique for the Admini&s;tration of the Lords Supper whether this alteration to be made, that &s;uch as intend to communicate &s;hall &s;ignifi their names to the Curate overnight or in the morning before prayer.</P>
<P N="12">12. The next Rubrique to bee cleared, how farre a Mini&s;ter may repul&s;e a &s;candalous and notorious &s;inner from the Communion.</P>
<P N="13">13 Whether the Rubrique is not to bee mended, where the Churchwardens are &s;traightly appointed to gather the almes for the poore before the Communi|on begin, for by experience it is proved to bee done better when the people depart.</P>
<P N="14"><PB N="5" REF="3" MS="y"> 14 Whether the Rubrique is not to be mended, concering the party that is to make his generall con|fe&s;&s;ion upon his knees before the Communion, that it &s;hould bee &s;aid only by the Mini&s;ter, and then at e|very clau&s;e repeated to the people.</P>
<P N="15">15 The&s;e words in the Con&s;ecration <HI>This is my body, this is my blood of the New Testament,</HI> not to be printed hereafter in great Letters.</P>
<P N="16">16 Whether it will not be fit to in&s;erta Rubrique touching kneelling at the Communion, that is, to com|ply in all humility with the prayer which the Mini&s;ter makes, when he delivers the Element.</P>
<P N="17">17 Whether <HI>Cathedrall and Colegiate</HI> Churches &s;hall be &s;traitly bound to celebrate the holy Communion e|very Sunday at the lea&s;t, and might not it rather be ad|ded rather <HI>once in a moneth.</HI></P>
<P N="18">18 In the la&s;t Rubrique touching the Communion, is it not fit that the Printer make a full point, and begin with a new great letter at the&s;e words. <HI>And every Pa|ri&s;hioner &s;hall al&s;o receive the Sacraments.</HI></P>
<P N="19">19 Whether in the fir&s;t prayer at the bapti&s;me, the&s;e words, <HI>Did&s;t &s;anctifie the flood Iordan, and allother waters,</HI> &s;hould not be thus changed. <HI>Didst &s;anctifie the Element of water.</HI></P>
<P N="20">20 Whether it be not fit to have &s;ome di&s;creete Ru|brique made to take away all &s;candall from &s;ignifiing the &s;igne of the Cro&s;&s;e upon the Infants after bapti&s;me, or if it &s;hall &s;eeme more expedient, to be quite di&s;u&s;ed, whether this rea&s;on &s;hould be publi&s;hed, that in antient Liturgies <HI>no Cro&s;&s;e was con&s;igned upon the partie,</HI> but where Oyle al&s;o was u&s;ed, and therefore Oyle being now o|mitted, &s;o may al&s;o that which was <HI>concomitant</HI> with it, <HI>the &s;igne of the Cro&s;&s;e.</HI></P>
<P N="21"><PB N="6" REF="4"> 21. In private Bapti&s;me, the Rubrique mentions that which mu&s;t not bee done, <HI>that the Mini&s;ter may dip the child in wat<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">r being at the point of death.</HI></P>
<P N="22">22. Whether in the la&s;t rubrique of confirmation tho&s;e words be to be left out <HI>(and be undoubtedly &s;aved.)</HI></P>
<P N="23">23. Whether the Catechi&s;me may not receive a lit|tle more enlargement.</P>
<P N="24">24. Whether the times prohibited for marriage are quite to be taken away</P>
<P N="25">25. Whether none hereafter &s;hall have licences to marry, nor be asked their banes of Matrimony, that &s;hall not bring with them a certificate from their Mini&s;ters that they are <HI>instructed in their Catechi&s;me.</HI></P>
<P N="26">26. Whether the&s;e words in Matrimony, <HI>(With my body I thee wor&s;hip)</HI> &s;hall not not be thus altered, <HI>(I give thee power over my body.</HI></P>
<P N="27">27. Whether the rubrique of marriage &s;hould not bee mended, that new married per&s;ons &s;hould receive the Communion the &s;ame day of their marriage, may it not well be <HI>or upon the next</HI> Sunday following when the Communion is celebrated.</P>
<P N="28">28. In the ab&s;olution of the &s;icke, were it not plaine to &s;ay, <HI>I pronounce thee ab&s;olved.</HI></P>
<P N="29">29. The <HI>P&s;almes of thanke&s;giving</HI> of woman after Child birth, were it not fit to be compo&s;ed out of pro|per <HI>Ver&s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">l's</HI> taken from divers P&s;almes.</P>
<P N="30">30 May not the Prie&s;t rather reade the <HI>Communion</HI> in the D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">sk<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">, then goe up to the pulpit.</P>
<P N="31">31 The publique in the <HI>Communion</HI> leaves it doubt|full, whether the <HI>Letany</HI> may not be read in divers place in the Church.</P>
<P N="32">32 In the order of the buriall of all per&s;ons, 'tis &s;aid, <HI>We commit his body to the ground, in &s;ure and certaine hope</HI>
<PB N="7" REF="4" MS="y"> <HI>of re&s;urrection to eternall life.</HI> Why not thus, <HI>knowing a&s;|&s;uredly, that the dead &s;hall ri&s;e againe.</HI></P>
<P N="33">33. In the Collect, next unto the Collect again&s;t the Pe&s;tilence, the clau&s;e perhaps to be mended, <HI>for the ho|nour of Christs &s;ake.</HI></P>
<P N="34">34. In the Let any in&s;tead of <HI>fornication and other dead|lie &s;innes,</HI> would it not &s;atisfie thus? <HI>from fornication and all other grievous &s;innes.</HI></P>
<P N="35">35. It is very fit, that the imperfections of the matter of the &s;inging P&s;almes &s;hould be mended, and then law|full authority added unto them, to have them publikely &s;ung before and after Sermons, and &s;ometimes in &s;tead of Hymns of morning and evening prayer.</P>
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<HEAD>Certaine rea&s;ons why the Booke of Common Prayer beeing Corrected &s;hould Continue.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1 Becau&s;e it was compo&s;ed and approved of godly reformed profe&s;&s;ors and Martyrs; and reverently u&s;ed and frequented by devout Prote&s;tants, in the times of religious Princes, the happy In&s;truments and prono|gators of the true reformed religion.</P>
<P N="2">2 Becau&s;e they have beene at &s;everall times Enacted and E&s;tabli&s;hed as lawes of the Land in the times of mo&s;t religious and and reformed Princes.</P>
<P N="3">3 Becau&s;e that, which gives the offence therein is mo&s;t Ma&s;ter of Faith and Salvation, but di&s;cipline, and the Ceremonies of the Church.</P>
<P N="4">4 Becau&s;e they have endured oppo&s;ition, And the greate&s;t number of the oppo&s;ers have beene either weake and Ignorant Chri&s;tians, mi&s;&punc;led and mi&s;infor|med, or perver&s;e, &s;editious, and inconformable to the e&s;tabli&s;hed Government.</P>
<P N="5"><PB N="8" REF="5"> 5 Becau&s;e the oppo&s;itions have beene divers times fully an&s;wered by learned and Religious Prote&s;tants, but e&s;pecially &s;o fully determined in a conference on mature deliberation, by our late Renowned King <HI>Iames</HI> of ble&s;&s;ed memory.</P>
<P N="6">6 La&s;tly becau&s;e they are and have beene &s;o Com|mon pa&s;&s;engers among&s;t us.</P>
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<HEAD>An Order by the Lords and Commons in Parliament touching the Government and Liturgie of the Church.</HEAD>
<P>THe Lords and Commons doe declare, they intend a due and nece&s;&s;ary reformation of the Govern|ment and Litturgie of the Church, and to take away nothing in the one or the other, but what &s;hall be Evill, and iu&s;tly offen&s;ive, or at lea&s;t unnece&s;&s;ary and burthen|&s;ome, and for the better effecting hereof, &s;peedily to have con&s;ultation with godly and learned Divines, and becau&s;e this will never of itt &s;elfe attaine the end &s;ought therein, they will therefore u&s;e their utmo&s;t endeavours to e&s;tabli&s;h Learned and Preaching Mini&s;ters, with a good and &s;ufficient maintenance throughout the whole kingdome, wherein many darke corners are mi&s;erably de&s;titute of the meanes of &s;alvation, and many poore Mini&s;ters want nece&s;&s;ary provi&s;ion.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Hen. El&s;yng Cle. Parl. D. C.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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