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A79702 Acts for the utter abolishing of bishops out of the churches of England and Scotland. With a motion to the House for the order for church-government by a better way. Church of Scotland. 1643 (1643) Wing C4196GA; Thomason E87_8; ESTC R19275 3,605 8

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other Hereditaments whatsoever of the said Archbishops Bishops Deans Deacons and Chapters Archdeacons Prebendaries Canons and Pettie-Canons which they or any of them have in the right of the said Churches and dignities shall be disposed of and ordered in such manner and form as the Kings most excellent Majesty the Lords Temporall and Commons shall appoint And it is therein further enacted that all Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction fit to be exercised in the Church and Kingdome of England shall be committed to such a number of persons and in such manner as by this present Parliament shall be appointed A Motion to the House concerning Church Government EVery severall Shire of England and Wales to be a severall Circuit or Diocesse for the Eclesiasticall Iurisdiction excepting Yorkeshire which is to be divided into three 2. A constant Presbyterie of twelve choise Divines to be selected in every Shire or Diocesse 3. A constant President to be established over this Presbyterie 4. This President in each Diocesse to ordain suspend deprive degrade Excommunicate by and with the consent and assistance of seven Divines of his Presbytery then present and not otherwise 5. The times of ordination throughout the land to be foure times every yeare viz the first of May the first of August the first of November and the first of February 6. Every President constantly to reside within his Diocesse in some one prime or chiefe City or Towne with in his Diocesse as in particular 7. Every President to have one speciall particular congregation to be chosen out of the most convenient for distance of place from his chiefe residence and the richest in value that may be had where he shall duely preach unlesse he be lawfully hindered and then he shall take care that his cure be well supplyed by another 8. No President shall remove or be translated from the Presbytery which he shall first undertake 9. Vpon every death or other avoidance of a president the King to grant a Conge d'elire to the whole Clergy of that Diocesse and they to present three of the Presbyters aforesaid and the King to choose and nominate whom he please of them 10. The first Presbyters of every Shire to be named by the Parliament and afterwards upon the death of any Presbyter the remayning Presbyter to chuse another out of the Parish Ministers of that Shire and this to bee done within one-month after such death or avoidance 11 No President or Clergie-man to exercise or have any Temporall Office or secular employmwnt but only for the present to hold and keepe the probate of wills untill the Parliament shall otherwise resolve 12. The President once a year at Midsummer to summon a Diocesan Synod there to heare and by generall vote to determine ail such matter of scandall in Life and Doctrine among the Clergie-men as shall be presented unto them 13. Every three yeares a Nationall Synod to be which for persons shall consist of all the Presidents in the Land and of two Presbiters to be chosen by the rest out of each Presbitery and of two Clerkes to be chosen out of every Dioces by the Clergie thereof 14. This Nationall Synod to make and ordaine Canons of the Governement of the Church but they not to binde untill tey be confirmed by Parliament 15. Every President over and above the benefice aforesaid a certaine constant rent allowed and allotted proportionall to the Diocesse wherein he is to officiate that is to say every Presbyter to have a constant yearely profit above his benefice 16. As for the revenue of the Bishops Deanes and Chapters c. a strict survey to be taken of all their rents and profits and the same to be represented at the beginning of our next convention and in the mean time no Lease to be renewed nor timber to be felled FINIS