shall and may at all time and times at his liberty and pleasure joyn and associate himself by virtue of this Act to the said Justices of Oyer and Determiner or to the said Justices of Assize at every of the said open and general Sessions to be holden in any place within his Diocess for and to the inquiry hearing and determining of the offences aforesaid Provided also and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that the Books concerning the said Services shall at the costs and charges of the Parishioners of every Parish and Cathedral Church be attained and gotten before the said Feast of the Nativity of Saint John Baptist next following and that all such Parishes and Cathedral Churches or other places where the said Books shall be attained and gotten before the said Feast of the Nativity of S. John Baptist shall within three Weeks next after the said Books so attained and gotten use the said Service and put the same in ure according to this Act. And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no person or persons shall be at any time hereafter impeached or otherwise molested of or for any the offences above mentioned hereafter to be committed or done contrary to this Act unless he or they so offending be thereof indicted at the next general Sessions to be holden before any such Justices of Oyer and Determiner or Justices of Assize next after any offence committed or done contrary to the tenour of this Act. Provided always and be it Ordained and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and singular Lords of the Parliament for the third offence above mentioned shall be tried by their Peers Provided also and be it Ordained and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Mayor of London and all other Mayors Bayliffs and other Head-Officers of all and singular Cities Boroughs and Towns-corporate within this Realm Wales and the Marches of the same to the which Justices of Assize do not commonly repair shall have full Power and Authority by virtue of this Act to enquire hear and determine the offences abovesaid and every of them yearly within fifteen days after the Feasts of Easter and Saint Michael the Archangel in like manner and form as Justices of Assize and Oyer and Determiner may do Provided always and be it Ordained and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and singular Archbishops and Bishops and every of their Chancellors Commissaries Archdeacons and other Ordinaries having any peculiar Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction shall have full power and Authority by virtue of this Act as well to enquire in their Visitation Synods and elsewhere within their Jurisdiction at any other time and place to take Accusations and Informations of all and every the things above mentioned done committed or perpetrated within the limits of their Jurisdictions and Authority as to punish the same by admonition excommunication sequestration or deprivation and other censures and process in like form as heretofore hath been used in like cases by the Queens Ecclesiastical Laws Provided always and be it Enacted That whatsoever person offending in the premisses shall for the offence first receive punishment of the Ordinary having a testimonial thereof under the said Ordinaries seal shall not for the same offence eftsoons be convicted before the Justices and likewise receiving for the said offence punishment first by the Justices he shall not for the same offence eftsoons receive punishment of the Ordinary Any thing contained in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding Provided always and be it Enacted That such Ornaments of the Church and of the Ministers thereof shall be retained and be in use as were in this Church of England by the Authority of Parliament in the second year of the Reign of King Edward the Sixth until other order shall be therein taken by the Authority of the Queens Majesty with the advice of Her Commissioners appointed and authorized under the Great Seal of England for causes Ecclesiastical or of the Metropolitan of this Realm And also That if there shall happen any contempt or irreverence to be used in the Ceremonies or Rites of the Church by the misusing of the Orders appointed in this Book the Queens Majesty may by the like advice of the said Commissioners or Metropolitan ordain and publish such further Ceremonies or Rites as may be most for the advancement of Gods glory the edifying of his Church and the due reverence of Christs holy Mysteries and Sacraments And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Laws Statutes and Ordinances wherein or whereby any other Service Administration of Sacraments or Common Prayer is limited established or set forth to be used within this Realm or any other the Queens Dominions or Countries shall from henceforth be utterly void and of none effect An Act for the Vniformity of Publick Prayers and Administration of Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies And for Establishing the Form of Making Ordaining and Consecrating Bishops Priests and Deacons in the Church of England XIV CAROL II. WHereas in the first year of the late Queen Elizabeth there was one Uniform Order of Common Service and Prayer and of the Administration of Sacraments Rites and Ceremonies in the Church of England agreeable to the Word of God and usage of the primitive Church Compiled by the Reverend Bishops and Clergy set forth in one Book Entituled The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies in the Church of England and enjoyned to be used by Act of Parliament holden in the said First year of the said late Queen Entituled An Act for the Vniformity of Common Prayer and Service in the Church and Administration of the Sacraments very comfortable to all good People desirous to live in Christian Conversation and most profitable to the estate of this Realm upon the which the Mercy Favour and Blessing of Almighty God is in no wise so readily and plentifully poured as by Common Prayers due usâ—…g of the Sacraments and often preaching of the Gospel with devotion of the hearers And yet this notwithstanding a great number of people in divers parts of this Realm following their own sensuality and living without knowledge and due fear of God do wilfully and schismatically abstain and refuse to come to their Parish-Churches and other publick places where Common Prayer Administration of the Sacraments and preaching of the Word of God is used upon the Sundays and other days ordained and appointed to be kept and observed as Holidays And whereas by the great and scandalous neglect of Ministers in the said Order or Liturgy so set forth and enjoyned as aforesaid great mischiefs and inconveniences during the times of the late unhappy troubles have arisen and grown and many people have been led into Factions and Schisms to the great decay and scandal of the Reformed Religion of the Church of England and to the hazard of many souls For prevention whereof in time to come for
or persons after he shall be twice convicted in form aforesaid shall offend against any of the premisses the third time and shall be thereof in form aforesaid lawfully convicted That then the person so offending and convicted the third time shall be deprived ipso facto of all his Spiritual promotions and also shall suffer imprisonment during his life And if the person that shall offend and be convict in form aforesaid concerning any of the premisses shall not be Beneficed nor have any Spiritual Promotion That then the same person so offending and convict shall for the first offence suffer imprisonment during one whole year next after his said Conviction without Bail or Mainprise And if any such person not having any Spiritual Promotion after his first conviction shall eftsoons offend in any thing concerning the premisses and shall in form aforesaid be thereof lawfully convicted That then the same person shall for his second offence suffer imprisonment during his life And it is Ordained and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any person or persons whatsoever after the said Feast of the Nativity of Saint John Baptist next coming shall â—…n any Enterludes Plays Songs Rimes or by other open words declare or speak any thing in the derogation depraving or despising of the same Book or of any thing therein contained or any part thereof or shall by open fact deed oâ—… by open threatnings compel or cause or otherwise procure or maintain any Parson Vicar or other minister in any Cathedral or Parish-Church or in Chappel or in any other place to sing or say any Common or open Prayer or to minister any Sacrament otherwise or in any other manner and form then is mentioned in the said Book or by any of the said means shall unlawfully interrupt or let any Parson Vicar or other Minister in any Cathedral or Parish-Church or Chappel or any other place to sing or say Common and open Prayer or to minister the Sacraments or any of them in such manner and form as is mentioned in the said Book That then every such person being thereof lawfully convicted in form abovesaid shall forfeit to the Queen our Sovereign Lady Her Heirs and Successors for the first offence an hundred marks And if any person or persons being once convict of any such offence eftsoons offend again any of the last recited offences and shall in form aforesaid be thereof lawfully convict That then the same person so offending and convict shall for the second offence forfeit to the Queen our Sovereign Lady Her Heirs and Successors four hundred marks and if any person after he in form aforesaid shall have been twice convict of any offence concerning any of the last recited offences shall offend the third time and be thereof in form abovesaid lawfully convict That then every person so offending and convict shall for his third offence forfeit to our Sovereign Lady the Queen all his Goods and Chattels and shall suffer imprisonment during his life And if any person or persons that for his first offence concerning the premisses shall be convict in form aforesaid do not pay the sum to be paid by virtue of his conviction in such manner and form as the same ought to be paid within six weeks next after his conviction That then every person so convict and so not paying the same shall for the same first offence instead of the said sum suffer imprisonment by the space of six months without Bail or Mainprise and if any person or persons that for his second offence concerning the premisses shall be convict in form aforesaid do not pay the said sum to be paid by virtue of his conviction and this estatute in such manner and form as the same ought to be paid within six weeks next after his said second conviction That then every person so convicted and not so paying the same shall for the same second offence in the stead of the said sum suffer imprisonment during twelve months without Bail or Mainpriseâ— and That from and after the said Feast of the Nativity of Saint John Baptist next coming all and every person and persons inhabiting within this Realm or any other the Queens Majesties Dominions shall diligently and faithfully having no lawful or reasonable excuse to be absent endeavour themselves to resort to their Parish-Church or Chappel accustomed or upon reasonable let thereof to some usual place where Common Prayer and such service of God shall be used in such time of let upon every Sunday and other days ordained and used to be kept as holy days and then and there to abide orderly and soberly during the time of the Common Prayer Preachings or other Service of God there to be used and ministred upon pain of punishment by the Censures of the Church and also upon pain that every person so offending shall forfeit for every such offence twelve pence to be levied by the Church-wardens of the Parish where such offence shall be done to the use of the poor of the the same Parish of the goods lands and tenements of such offender by way of distress And for due execution hereof the Queens most excellent Majesty the Lords Temporal and all the Commons in this present Parliament assembled do in Gods name earnestly require and charge all the Archbishops Bishops and other Ordinaries that they shall endeavour themselves to the uttermost of their knowledges that the due and true execution hereof may be had throughout their Diocesses and Charges as they will answer before God for such evils and plagues wherewith Almighty God may justly punish his people for neglecting this good and wholsom Law And for their Authority in this behalf Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and singular the same Archbishops Bishops and all other their Officers exercising Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction as well in places exempt as not exempt within their Diocesses shall have full power and Authority by this Act to reform correct and punish by Censures of the Church all and singular persons which shall offend within any of their Jurisdictions or Diocesses after the said Feast of the Nativity of S. John Baptist next coming against this Act and Statute Any other Law Statute Priviledge Liberty or Provision heretofore made had or suffered to the contrary notwithstanding And it is Ordained and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Justice of Oyer and Determiner or Justices of Assize shall have full power and Authority in every of their open and general Sessions to enquire hear and determine all and all manner of offences that shall be committed or done contrary to any Article contained in this present Act within the limits of the Commission to them directed and to make process for the execution of the same as they may do against any person being indicted before them of trespass or lawfully convicted thereof Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Archbishop and Bishop
Ps 147.5 The Lord setteth up the meek and bringeth the ungodly down to the ground verse 6. Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand and upon the son of man whom thou madest so strong for thine own self Psal 80.17 And so will not me go back from thee O let us live and we shall call upon thy name ver 18. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen ¶ Proper Psalms Lxiv Cxxiv Cxxv. ¶ Proper Lessons The First 2 Sam. XXII Te Denm The second Acts XXIII Jubilate ¶ In the Suffrages after the Creed these shall be inserted and used for the King Priest O Lord save the King People Who putteth his trust in thee Priest Send him help from thy holy place People And evermore mightily defend him Priest Let his enemies have no advantage against him People Let not the wicked approach to hurt him ¶ Instead of the first Collect at Morning Prayer shall these two be used ALmighty God who hast in all ages shewed thy Power and Mercy in the miraculous and gracious deliverances of thy Church and in the protection of righteous and religious Kings and States professing thy holy and eternal truth from the wicked Conspiracies and malicious Practices of all the enemies thereof We yield thee our unfeigned thanks and praise for the wonderful and mighty deliverance of our late gracious Sovereign King James the First the Queen the Prince and all the Royal Branches with the Nobility Clergy and Commons of this Realm then assembled in Parliament by Popish Treachery appointed as sheep to the slaughter in a most barbarous and savage manner beyond the examples of former ages From this unnatural Conspiracy not our merit but thy mercy not our foresight but thy providence delivered us And therefore not unto us O Lord not unto us but unto thy Name be ascribed all honour and glory in all Churches of the saints from generation to generation through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ACcept also most gracious God of our unfeigned thanks for filling our hearts again with joy and gladness after the time that thou hast afflicted us and putting a new song into our mouths by bringing his Majesty who now reigns over us upon this Day for the deliverance of our Church and Nation from Popish Tyranny and Arbitrary power We adore the wisdom and justice of thy providence which so timely interposed in our extream danger and disappointed all the designs of our enemies We beseech thee give us such a lively and lasting sense of what thou didst then and hast since that time done for us that we may not grow secure and careless in our obedience by presuming upon thy great and undeserved goddness but that it may lead us to repentance and move us to be the more diligent and zealous in all the duties of our Religion which thou hast in a marvellous manner preserved to us Let truth and justice brotherly kindness and charity devotion and piety concord and unity with all other virtues so flourish among us that they may be the Stability of our Times and make this Church a Praise in the Earth All which we humbly beg for the sake of our blessed Lord and Saviour Amen ¶ In the end of the Litany which shall alway this Day he used after the Collect We humbly beseech thee O Father c shall this be said which followeth ALmighty God and heavenly Father who of thy gracious providence and tender mercy towards us didst prevent the malice and imaginations of our enemies by discovering and confounding their horrible and wicked enterprise plotted and intended this Day to be executed against the King and the whole State of this Realm for the Subversion of the Government and Religion established among us and didst likewise upon this Day wonderfully conduct thy servant our present King and bring him safely into this Kingdom to preserve us from the late Attempts of our Enemies to bereave us of our Religion and Laws We most humbly praise and magnifie thy most glorious Name for thy unspeakable goodness towards us expressed in both these Acts of thy mercy We confess it has been of thy mercy alone that we are not consumed for our sins have cried to Heaven against us and our iniquities justly called for vengeance upon us But thou hast not dealt with us after our sins nor rewarded us after our iniquities nor given us over as we deserved to be a prey to our Enemies but hast in mercy delivered us from their malice and preserved us from death and destruction Let the consideration of this thy repeated goodness O Lord work in us true repentance that iniquity may not be our ruine And increase in us more and more a lively faith and love fruitful in all holy obedience that thou mayest still continue thy favour with the light of thy Gospel to us and our posterity for evermore and that for thy dear Sons sake Jesus Christ our only Mediatour and Advocate Amen ¶ Instead of the Prayer In time of War and Tumults shall be used this Prayer following O Lord who didst this day discover the snares of death that were laid for us and didst wonderfully deliver us from the same Be thou still our mighty Protectour and scatter our Enemies that delight in blond Infatuate and defeat their Counsels abate their Pride asswage their Malice and confound their Devices Strengthen the hands of our gracious Sovereign King WILLIAM and all that are put in Authority under him with Judgment and Justice to cut off all such workers of iniquity as turn Religion into Rebellion and Faith into Faction that they may never prevail against us or triumph in the ruine of thy Church among us But that our gracious Sovereign and his Realms being preserved in thy true Religion and by thy merciful goodness protected in the same we may all duly serve thee and give thee thanks in thy holy Congregation through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ In the Communion-Service instead of the Collect for the day shall this which followeth be used ETernal God and our most mighty Protectour we thy unworthy servants do humbly present our selves before thy Majesty acknowledging thy Power Wisdom and Goodness in Preserving the King and the Three Estates of this Realm assembled in Parliament from the Destruction this Day intended against them Make us we beseech thee truly thankful for this and for all other thy great Mercies towards us particularly for making this Day again memorable by a fresh Instance of thy Loving-kindness towards us We bless thee for giving his Majesty that now is a safe Arrival here and for making all Opposition fall before him till he became our King and Governour Continue we beseech thee to Protect and Defend him and all the Royal Family from all Treasons and Conspiracies Preserve them in thy Faith Fear and Love Prosper his Reign