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A79651	A collection of articles, injunctions, canons, orders, ordinances and consitutions ecclesiastical, with other publick records of the Church of England chiefly in the times of K. Edward VI. Q. Elizabeth, [double brace] K. James, & K. Charles I. Published to vindicate the Church of England, and to promote uniformity and peace in the same. : With a learned preface by Anthony Sparrow, D.D. Lord Bishop of Norwich.	Church of England.; Sparrow, Anthony, 1612-1685.; England and Wales. Laws, etc.	1671 (1671)	Wing C4094cA; ESTC R173968	232,380	430

past and grant that we may ever hereafter serve and please thee in newness of life to the honor and glory of thy Name through Iesus Christ our Lord. Then shall the Priest stand up and turning him to the people say thus Our blessed Lord who hath left power to his Church to absolve penitent sinners from their sins and to restore to the grace of the heavenly Father such as truly believe in Christ have mercy upon you pardon and deliver you from all sins confirm and strengthen you in all goodness and bring you to everlasting life Then shall the Priest stand up and turning him toward the people say thus Hear what comfortable words our Saviour Christ saith to all that truly turn to him COme unto me all that travel and be heavy laden and I shall refresh you So God loved the world that he gave his onely begotten Son to the end that all that believe in him should not perish but have life everlasting Hear also what St. Paul saith THis is a true saying and worthy of all men to be embraced and received that Iesus Christ came into this world to save sinners Hear also what St. John saith IF any man sin we have an Advocate with the Father Iesus Christ the righteous he it is that obtained grace for our sins Then shall the Priest kneel down and say in the name of all them that shall receive the Communion this Prayer following WE do not presume to come to this thy Table O merciful Lord trusting in our own righteousness but in thy manifold and great mercies we be not worthy so much as to gather up the crums under thy Table but thou art the same Lord whose property is always to have mercy grant us therefore gracious Lord so to eat the flesh of thy dear Son Iesus Christ and to drink his blood in these holy Mysteries that we may continually dwell in him and he in us that our sinful bodies may be made clean by his body and our souls washed through his most precious blood Amen Then shall the Priest rise the people still reverently kneeling and the Priest shall deliver the Communion first to the Ministers if any be there present that they may be ready to help the Priest and after to the other And when he doth deliver the Sacrament of the body of Christ he shall say to every one these words following THe body of our Lord Iesus Christ which was given for thee preserve thy body unto everlasting life And the Priest delivering the Sacrament of the blood and giving every one to drrnk once and no more shall say THe blood of our Lord Iesus Christ which was shed for thee preserve thy soul unto everlasting life If there be a Deacon or other Priest then shall he follow with the Chalice and as the Priest ministreth the Bread so shall he for more expedition minister the Wine in form before written Then shall the Priest turning him to the people let the people depart with this blessing THe peace of God which passeth all understanding keep your hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God and of his Son Iesus Christ our Lord. To which the people shall answer Amen Note That the Bread that shall be consecrated shall be such as heretofore hath been accustomed And every of the said consecrated Breads shall be broken in two pieces at the least or more by the discretion of the Minister and so distributed And men must not think less to be received in part than in the whole but in each of them the whole body of our Saviour Iesus Christ Note That if it doth so chance that the Wine hollowed and consecrate doth not suffice or be enough for them that do take the Communion the Priest after the first Cup or Chalice be emptied may go again to the Altar and reverently and dev●utly prepare and Consecrate another and so the third or more likewise beginning at these words Simili modo postquam coenatum est and ending at these words qui pro vobis promultis effundetur in remissionem peccatorum and withiout any leavation or lifting up Articles to be enquired of in the Visitations to be had within the Diocese of Canterbury in the second year of the Reign of our Dread Soveraign Lord Edward the Sixth by the Grace of God King of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith and in Earth of the Church of England and also of Ireland the Supreme Head FIrst Whether Parsons Vicars and Curates and every of them have purely and sincerely without colour or dissimulation four times in the year at the least preached against the usurped power pretended authority and jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome Item Whether they have preached and declared likewise four times in the year at the least that the Kings Majesties power authority and preheminence within his Realms and Dominions is the highest power under God Item Whether any person hath by writing cyphring preaching or teaching deed or act obstinately holden and stand with to extol set forth maintain or defend the authority jurisdiction or power of the Bishop of Rome or of his See heretofore claimed and usurped or by any pretense obstinately or maliciously invented any thing for the extolling of the same or any part thereof Item Whether in their Common-prayers they use not the Collects made for the King and make not special mention of his Majesties name in the same Item Whether they do not every Sunday and Holy-day with the Collects of the English procession say the prayer set forth by the Kings Majesty for peace between England and Scotland Item Whether they have not removed taken away and utterly extincted and destroyed in their Churches Chappels and Houses all Images all Shrines coverings of Shrines all Tables Candlesticks Trindels or Rolls of Wax Pictures Paintings and allother Monuments of feigned Miracles Pilgrimges Idolatry and Superstition so that there remain on memory of the same in walls glass-windows or elsewhere Item Whether they have exhorted moved and stirred their Parishioners to do the like in every of their houses Item Whether they have declared to their Parishioners the Articles concerning the abrogation of certain superfluous Holy-dayes and done their endeavor to perswade the said Parishioners to keep and observe the same Articles inviolably and whether any of those abrogate dayes have been kept as Holy-days and by whose occasion they were so kept Item Whether they have diligently duly and reverently ministred the Sacraments in their Cures Item Whether they have preached or caused to be preached purely and sincerely the word of God in every of their Cures every quarter of the year once at the least exhorting their Parishioners to words commanded by the Scripture and not to works devised by mens phantasies besides Scripture as wearing or praying upon Beads or such like Item Whether they suffer any Torches Candles Tapers or any other lights to be in your Churches but only two lights upon the

to be admitted Deacons The Bishop TAke heed that the persons whom ye present unto us be apt and meet for their Learning and godly conversation to exercise their Ministry duly to the honour of God and edifying of his Church The Archdeacon shall Answer I Have enquired of them and also examined them and think rhem so to be And the Bishop shall say unto the people BRethren if there be any of you who knoweth any impediment or notable crime in any of these persons presented to be ordered Deacons for the which he ought not to be admitted to the same let him come forth in the Name of God and shew what the crime or impediment is And if any great crime or impediment be objected the Bishop shall surcease from Ordering that person until such time as the party accused shall try himself clear of that crime Then the Bishop commending such as shall be founnd meet to be Ordered to the Prayers of the Congregation with the Clerks and people present shall say or sing the Letany as followeth with the prayers The Litany and Suffrages O God the Father of Heaven have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Father of Heaven have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Son Redeemer of the Word have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Son Redeemer of the World have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son have mercy upon us miserable sinners O holy blessed and glorious Trinity three Persons and one God have mercy upon us miserable sinners O holy blessed and glorious Trinity three Persons and one God have mercy upon us miserable sinners Remember not Lord our offences nor the offences of our forefathers neither take thou vengeance of our sins Spare us good Lord spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed with thy m●●t precious blood and be not angry with us for ever Spare us good Lord. From all evil and mischief from sin from the crafts and assaults of the Devil from thy wrath and from everlasting damnation Good Lord deliver us From all blindness of heart from pride vain-glory and hypocrisie from envy hatred and malice and all uncharitableness Good Lord deliver us From fornication and all other deadly sin and from all the deceits of the world the flesh and the Devil Good Lord deliver us From lightning and tempest from plague pestilence and famine from battle and murder and from sudden death Good Lord deliver us From all sedition and privy conspiracy from all false doctrine and heresie from hardness of heart and contempt of thy Word and Commandment Good Lord deliver us By thi mystery of thy holy Incarnation by thy holy Nativity and Circumcision by thy Baptism Fasting and Temptation Good Lord deliver us By thy Agony and bloody Sweat by thy Cross and Passion by thy precious Death and Burial by thy glorious Resurrection and Ascension and by the coming of the holy Ghost Good Lord deliver us In all time of our Tribulation in all time of our Wealth in the hour of Dea●h and in the day of Iudgment Good Lord deliver us We sinners do beseech thee hear us O Lord God and that it may please thee to rule and govern thy holy Church universally in the right way We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to keep and strengthen in the true worshipping of thee in righteousness and holiness of life thy servant CHARLES our most gratious King and Governour We beseech thee to hear us good Lord That it may please thee to rule his heart in thy faith fear and love and that he may ever more have affiance in thee and ever seek thy honour and glory We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to be his defender and keeper giving him the victory over all his enemies We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bless and preserve our gracious Queen Catherine James Duke of York and the rest of the Royal Progeny We beseech thee to hear us good Lord That it may please thee to illuminate all Bishops Pastors and Ministers of the Church with true knowledge and understanding of thy Word and that both by their preaching and living they may set it forth and shew it accordingly We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to endue the Lords of the Council and all the Nobility with grace wisdom and understanding We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bless and keep all the Magistrates giving them grace to execute Iustice and to maintain truth We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bless and keep all thy people We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give to all Nations unity peace and concord We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give us an heart to love and dread thee and diligently to live after thy commandments We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give to all thy people increase of grace to hear meekly thy Word and to receive it with pure affection and to bring forth the fruits of the Spirit We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bring into the way of truth all such as have erred and are deceived We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to strengthen such as do stand and to comfort and help the weak hearted and to raise up them that fall and finally to beat down Satan under our feet We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to succour help and comfort all that be in danger necessity and tribulation We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to preserve all that travel by Land or by Water all Women labouring of Child all sick persons and young children and to shew thy pity upon all prisoners and captives We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to defend and provide for the fatherless children and widows and all that be desolate and oppressed We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to have mercy upon all men We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to forgive our enemies persecuters and slanderers and to turn their hearts We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give and preserve to our use the kindly fruits of the earth so as in due time we may enjoy them We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give us true repentance to forgive us all our sins negligences and ignorances and to endue us

with the grace of thy holy Spirit to amend our lives according to thy holy Word We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. Son of God we beseech the to hear us Son of God we beseech the to hear us O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world Grant us thy peace O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world Have mercy upon us O Christ hear us O Christ hear us Lord have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us Our Father which art in heaven c. And lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evil Amen The Versicle O Lord deal not with us after our sins Answer Neither reward us after our iniquities ¶ Let us pray Ood merciful Father that despisest not the sighing of a contrite heart nor the desire of such as be sorrowful mercifully assist our prayers that we make before thee in all our troubles and adversities whensoever they oppress us and graciously hear us that those evils which the craft and subtilty of the devil or man worketh against us be brought to nought and by the providence of thy goodness they may be dispersed thar we thy servants being hurt by no persecutions may evermore give thanks unto thee in thy holy Church through Iesus Christ our Lord. O Lord arise help us and deliver us for thy names sake O God we have heard with our ears and our fathers have declared unto us the noble works that thou didst in their days and in the old time before them O Lord arise help us and deliver us for thine honour Glory be to the Father and to the Son c. As it was in the beginning is now c. From our Enemies defend us O Christ Graciously look upon our afflictions Pitifully behold the sorrows of our hearts Mercifully forgive the sins of thy people Favourably with mercy hear our prayers O Son of David have mercy upon us Both now and ever vouchsafe to hear us O Christ Graciously hear us O Christ graciously hear us O Lord Christ The Versicle O Lord let thy mercy be shewed upon us Answer As we do put our trust in thee Let us pray WE humbly beseech thee O Father mercifully to look upon our infirmities and for the glory of thy Names sake turn from us all those evils that we most righteously have deserved and grant that in all our troubles we may put our whole trust and confidence in thy mercy and evermore serve thee in holiness and pureness of living to thy honour and glory through our only Mediator and Advocate Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ALmighty God which hast given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplications unto thee and dost promis that when two or three be gathered together in thy Name thou wile grant their requests fulfil now O Lord the desires and petitions of thy servanta as may be most expedient for them granting us in this world knowledge of thy truth and in the world to come life everlasting Amen ¶ Then shall be said also this that followeth ALmighty God which by thy divine providence hast appointed divers Orders of Ministers in the Church and didst inspire thine holy Apostles to chuse unto this Order of Deacons the first Martyr St. Stephen with other mercifully behold these thy servants now called to the like office and administration replenish them so with the truth of thy Doctrine and innocency of life that both by word and good example they may faithfully serve thee in this office to the glory of thy Name and profit of the Congregation through the merits of our Saviour Iesu Christ who liveth and reigneth with thee and the holy Ghost now and for ever Amen Then shall be sung or said the Communion of the day saving the Epistle shall be read out of Timothy as followeth LIkewise must the Ministers be honest not double-tongued not given unto much wine neither greedy of filthy lucre but holding the mystery of the faith with a pure conscience and let them first be proved and then let them minister so that no man be able to reprove them Even so must the●r wives be honest not evil speakers but sober and faithful in all things Let the Deacons be the husbands of one wife and such as rule their children well and their own housholds for they that minister well get themselves a good degree and a great liberty in the faith which is in Christ Iesu These things write I unto thee trusting to come shortly unto thee but and if I tarry long that then thou mayest yet have knowledge how thou oughest to behave thy self in the house of God which is the congregation of the living God the pillar and ground of truth And without doubt great is that mystery of godliness God was shewed in the flesh was justified in the spirit was seen among the angels was preached unto the Gentiles was believed in on the world and received up into glory Or else this out of the sixth of the Acts. THen the twelve called the multitude of the disciples together and said It is not meet that we should leave the word of God and serve tables wherefore brethren look you out among you seven men of honest report and full of the holy Ghost and wisdom to whom we may commit this business but we will give our selves continually to prayer and to the administration of the word And that saying pleased the whole multitude And they chose Stephen a man full of faith and full of the holy Ghost and Philip and Brochorus and Nicanor and Timon and Parmenas and Nicholas a convert of Antioch These they set before the Apostles and when they had prayed they laid their hands on them And the word of God increased and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly and a great number of the Priests were obedient unto the faith And before the Gospel the Bishop setting in a chair shall cause the Oath of the Kings Supremacy and against the power and authority of all foreign Potentates to be ministred unto every of them that are to be ordered ¶ The Oath of the Kings Soveraignty I A. B. do utterly testifie and declare in my conscience that the Kings Highness is the only supreme Governour of this Realm and of all other his Highness Dominions and Countries as well in all spiritual or Ecclesiastical things or causes as temporal and that no foreign Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to have any jurisdiction power superiority pre-eminence or authority Ecclesiastical or spiritual within this Realm and therefore I do utterly renounce and forsake all foreign jurisdictions powers superiorities and au horities and do promise that from henceforth I shall bear faith and true Allegiance to the Kings Highness his heirs and lawful successours and to my power shall assist and

Iesus Christ to be our Redeemer and Author of everlasting life who after that he had made perfect our redemption by his death and was ascended into heaven poured down his gifts abundantly upon men making some Apostles some Prophets some Evangelists some Pastors and Doctors to the edifying and making perfect his Congregation grant we beseech thee to this thy servant such grace that he may evermore be ready to spread abroad thy Gospel and glad tidings of reconcilement to God and to use the authority given to him not to destroy but to save not to hurt but to help so that be as a wise and faithful servant giving to thy family meat in due season may at the last be received into joy through Iesu Christ our Lord who with thee and the holy Ghost liveth and raigneth one God world without end Amen Then the Archbishop and Bishops present shall lay their hands upon the head of the elected Bishop the Archbishop saying TAke the holy Ghost and remember that thou stir up the grace of God which is in thee by imposition of hands for God hath not given us the spirit of fear but of power and love and soberness Then the Archbishop shall deliver him the Bible saying GIve heed unto reading exhortation and doctrine Think upon these things contained in this book Be diligent in them that the increase coming thereby may be manifest unto all men Take heed unto thy self and unto teaching and be diligent in doing them for by doing this thou shalt save thy self and them that hear thee Be to the flock of Christ a shepherd not a wolf feed them devour them not hold up the weak heal the sick bind toge●her the broken bring again the outcasts seek the lost be so merciful that ye be not too remiss so minister discipline that you forget not mercy that when the Shepherd shall come you may receive the immarcescible Crown of glory through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Then the Archbishop shall proceed to the Communion with whom the new Consecrated Bishop with other shall also Communicate And for the last Collect immediately before the Benediction shall be said this Prayer MOst merciful Father we beseech thee to send upon this thy servant thy heavenly blessing and so endue him with thy holy Spirit that he preaching thy Word may not only be earnest to reprove beseech and rebuke with all patience and Doctrine but also may be to such as believe an wholsom example in word in conversation in love in faith in chastity and purity that faithfully fulfilling his course at the latter day he may receive the Crown of righteousness laid up by the Lord the righteous Iudge who liveth and reigneth one God with the Father and the holy Ghost world without end Amen AT THE HEALING THE GOSPEL Written in the XVI Chapter of St. MARK beginning at the 14. verse JESUS appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat and cast in their teeth their unbelief and hardness of heart because they believed not them which had seen that he was risen again from the dead And he said unto them Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to all creatures He that believeth and is baptised shall be saved but he that believeth not shall be damned And these tokens shall follow them that believe In my Name they shall cast out devils they shall speak with new tongues they shall drive away serpents and if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them † Here the infirm persons are presented to the KING upon their knees and the KING layeth his hands upon them They shall lay their hand on the sick and they shall recover So when the Lord had spoken unto them he was received into Heaven and is on the right hand of God And they went forth and preached every where the Lord working with them and confirming the word with miracles following THE GOSPEL Written in the I. Chapter of St. JOHN beginning at the first verse IN the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and God was the Word The same was in the beginning with God All things were made by it and and without it was made nothing that was made In it was Life and the Life was the Light of men and the Light shined in the darkness and the darkness comprehended it not There was sent from God a man whose name was JOHN The same came as a witness to bear witness of the Light that all men through him might believe He was not that Light but was sent to bear witness of the Light † Here they are again presented unto the KING upon their knees and the KING putteth his Gold about their necks That light was the true light which lighteth every man th●t cometh into the world He was in the world and the world was made by him and the world knew him not He came among his own and his own received him not But as many as received him to them gave he power to be made Sons of God even them that believed on his Name which were born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor yet of the will of man but of God And the same Word became Flesh and dwelt among us and we saw the Glory of it as the Glory of the only Son of the begotten Father full of grace and truth THE PRAYERS Vers Lord have mercy upon us Resp Lord have mercy upon us Vers Christ have mercy upon us Resp Christ have mercy upon us Vers Lord have mercy upon us Resp Lord have mercy upon us OVr Father which art in Heaven hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heav●n Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil Amen These Answers are to be made by them that come to be healed Vers O Lord save thy servants Resp Which put their trust in thee Vers Send help unto them from above Resp And evermore mightily defend them Vers Help us O God Our Saviour Resp And for the Glory of thy Name deliver us be merciful unto us sinnners for thy Names sake Vers O Lord hear our prayer Resp And let our cry come into thee O Almighty God who art the Giver of all health and the aid of them that seek to Thee for succour we call upon thee for thy help and goodness mercifully to be shewed unto these thy servants that they being healed of their infirmity may give thanks unto thee in thy holy Church through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen THE grace of our Lord Iesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the holy Ghost be with us all evermore Amen A copy of thacte made for thabrogacion of certayne holy-dayes according to the transumpte late sent by the kyngs hyghnes to all biss hops with his

sins of thy people that Temple was destroyed thou didst by thy Prophets Aggai and Zachary by shewing how inconvenient it was that they should dwell in cieled houses and let thy house lye waste stir up the spirit of Zorobabel to build thee the second Temple anew which second House likewise by the fulness of the Glory of thy presence thou didst shew thy self to like and allow of Neither only wert thou well pleased with such as did build thee these Temples but even with such of the people afterwards as being moved with zeal added unto their Temple their Mother Church lesser places of prayer by the names of Synagogues in every Town throughout the Land for the Tribes to ascend up to worship thee to learn thy holy will and to do it Which very Act of the Centurion to build thy people a Synagogue thou didst well approve and commend in the Gospel And by the bodily presence of thy Son our Saviour at the feast of the Dedication testified by St. John didst really well allow of and do honour to such devout Religious services as we are now about to perform Which also by thy holy Word hast taught us that thine Apostles themselves and the Christians in their time as they had houses to eat and drink in so had they also where the whole Congregation of the Faithful came together in one place which they expreslly called Gods Church and would not have it despised nor abused nor eaten nor drunken in but had in great Reverence being the very place of their holy Assemblies By whose godly examples the Christians in all Ages successively have erected and consecrated sundry godly houses for the Celebration of Divine Service and Worship Monuments of their Piety and Devotion as our eyes see this day We then as Fellow-Citizens with the Saints and of the Houshold of God being built upon the Foundation of the Apostles and Prophets Jesus Christ himself being the head corner-stone walking in the steps of their most holy Faith and ensuing the examples of these thy Patriarchs Prophets and Apostles have together with them done the same work I say in building and dedicating this house as an habitation for thee and a place for us to assemble and meet together for the observation of thy Divine worship invocation of thy Name reading preaching and hearing thy most holy Word administring thy most holy Sacraments and above all in thy most holy place the very gate of Heaven upon earth as Jacob named it to do the work of Heaven to set forth thy most worthy praise to laud and magnifie thy most glorious Majesty for all thy goodness to all men especially to us of the Houshold of Faith Accept therefore we beseech thee most gracious Father of this our bounden duty and service accept this for thine house and because thine Holiness becomes thine house for ever sanctifie this house with thy gracious presence which is erected to the honour of thy most glorious Name Now therefore arise O Lord and come into this place of thy rest thou and the ark of thy strength Let thine eye be open towards this house day and night Let thine ears be ready towards the Prayers of thy children which they shall make unto thee in this place and let thine heart delight to dwell here perpetually And whensoever thy servants shall make to thee their petitions in this House either to bestow thy good graces and blessings upon them or to remove thy punishments and judgments from them hear them from Heaven thy dwelling place the Throne of the glory of thy Kingdom and when thou hearest have mercy and grant O Lord we beseech thee that here and elsewhere thy Priests may be cloathed with Righteousness and thy Saints rejoyce in thy Salvation And whereas both in the Old and New Testament thou hast consecrated the measuring out and building of a material Church to such an excellent Mystery that in it is signified and presented the fruition of the joy of thy Heavenly Kingdom we beseech thee that in this material Temple made with hands we may so serve and please thee in all holy Exercises of Godliness and Christian Religion that in the end we may come to that thy Temple on high even to the holy places made without hands whose Builder and Maker is God so as when we shall cease to pray to thee on Earth we may with all those that have in the like manner erected such places to thy Name and with all thy Saints eternally praise thee in the highest Heavens for all thy goodness vouchsafed us for a time here on earth and laid up for us there in thy Kingdom for ever and ever and that for thy dear Sons sake our Blessed Saviour Jesus Christ to whom c. BLessed Father who hast promised in thy holy Law that in every place where the remembrance of thy Name shall be put thou wilt come unto us and bless us according to that thy promise come unto us and bless us who put now upon this place the memorial of thy Name by dedicating it wholly and only to thy Service and Worship Blessed Saviour who in the Gospel with thy bodily presence didst honour and adorn the Feast of the dedication of the Temple at this dedication of this Temple unto thee be present also and accept Good Lord and prosper the work of our hands Blessed Spirit without whom nothing is holy no person or place is sanctified aright send down upon this place thy sanctifying power and grace hallow it and make it to thee an holy habitation for ever Blessed and glorious Trinity by whose Power Wisdom and Love all things are purged lightned and made perfect enable us with thy Power enlighten us with thy Truth perfect us with thy Grace that both here and elsewhere acknowledging the glory of thy eternal Trinity and in the Power of thy Divine Majesty worshipping the Unity we may obtain to the fruition of the glorious Godhead Trinity in Unity and Unity in Trinity to be adored forever God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Ghost accept sanctifie and bless this place to the end whereunto according to his own Ordinance we have ordained it to be a Sanctuary to the most High and a Church for the living God The Lord with his favour ever mercifully behold it and so send upon it his spiritual Benediction and Grace that it may be the House of God to him and the Gate of Heaven to us Amen Haec precatus Episcopus Baptisterium adit àtque impositâ manu ait REgard O Lord the Supplications of thy Servants and grant that those Children that shall be baptized in this Laver of the New birth may be sanctified and washed with the Holy Ghost delivered from thy wrath received into the Ark of Christs Church receive herein the fulness of Grace and ever remain in the number of thy faithful and elect Children Suggestum dein GRant that thy Holy Word which from this place shall be

great difference it is not thy will O Lord that our Bodies should be cast out as the Bodies of Beasts to become dung for the earth or our bones lie scattered abroad to the sight of the Sun But when thy servants are gathered to their Fathers their Bodies should be decently and seemly laid up in the bosom of the Earth from whence they were taken Neither is it thy pleasure O Lord that they should be buried as an Ass in the open fields but in a place chosen and set apart for that purpose For even so from the Beginning we find the holy Patriarch Abraham the Father of the faithful would not bury his dead in the common fields nay nor amongst the Bodies of Hethites who were heathen men but purchased a burial-place for himself in the plain of Mamre which being as it were the Church-Yard of the Patriarchs therein they laid the dead bodies of Sara his Wife of himself his Son Isaac and Rebecca his Wife after them Jacob and Leah were buried there After this manner did the Patriarchs in old time who trusted in God sever themselves places for burial whose children we are so long as we do their works and walk in the steps of their most holy Faith Ensuing then the steps of the Faith of our Father Abraham we for the same purpose have made choice of the very same place wherein we now are that it may be as the Cave of Mamre even Gods store-house for the bodies of such our Brethren and Sisters to be laid up in as he shall ordain there to be interred there to rest in the sleep of peace till the last Trump shall awake them for they shall awake and rise up that sleep in the dust for the dew shall be as the dew of herbs and the earth shall yield forth her dead We beseech thee good Lord to accept this work of ours in shewing mercy to the dead and mercifully grant that they whose bodies shall be here bestowed and we all may never forget the day of puting off the Tabernacle of this flesh but that living we may think upon death and dying we may apprehend life and rising from the death of sin to the life of Righteousness which is the first rising of Grace we may have our parts in the second which is the rising to glory by thy Mercy O most gracious Lord God who doest live and govern all things world without end Priorem dein formulam per omnia secutus in Cathedram ibi se collocat atque Actum consecrationis promulgat IN Dei Nomine Amen Nos Lancelotus permissione divina Winton Episcopus hunc locum jacentem in vasto solo vulgo nuncupatum Ridgway-heath infra Parochiam Ecclesiae parochialis sanctae Mariae c. jam propriis sumptibus strenui viri Ric. Smith de Peer-tree Armigeri in circuitu Capellae noviter ab eo quoque propriis sumptibus suis constitutae palis inclusum arboribus consitum continentem in longitudine 148 pedes aut circiter in latitudine 124 pedes aut circiter in toto vero circuitu 435 pedes aut circiter a pristinis aliisque quibuscunque communibus usibus profanis in usus sacros separandum fore decernimus sic separamus ac eundem inhabitantibus vel degentibus in familia Ric. Smith in villa de Weston Hamlettis de Itchin Wolston Ridgway in parte Manerii de Bitterne quae est de Parochia sanctae Mariae juxta Southampt in coemeterium sive locum Sepulturae pro corporibus inibi decedentium Christiano ritu humandis quantum in nobis est ac de jure canonibus Ecclesiasticis ac de statutis hujus Regni Angliae possumus authoritate nostra ordinaria Episcopali assignamus ac per nomen Coemeterii Capellae JESV designatus dedicamus in usum praedictum consecramus ac sic assignatum dedicatum consecratum fuisse esse in futurum perpetuis temporibus remanere debere palam ac publice declaramus Ac Coemeterium Capellae JESV deinceps in perpetuum nuncupandum desernimus Privilegiis insuper omnibus singulis Coemeteriis locis sepulturae ab antiquo consecratis competent Coemeterium praedictum sive locum sepulturae ad omnem juris effectum munitum esse volumus quantum in nobis est de jure possumus sic munimus stabilimus per praesentes Proviso tamen quod praedict Richardus Heredes Assignati sui ac reliqui in dicta villa Hamlettis c. inhabitantes propriis suis sumptibus dictum Coemeterium de tempore in tempus in decenti statu conservabunt clausuras ejus quoties opus fuerit sufficienter convenienter reparabunt Salvis etiam omnino reservatis Rectori Ecclesiae Parochialis sancta Mariae predictae ac Guardianis aliisque Ministris dictae Ecclesiae pro tempore existentibus in perpetuum omnibus singulis oblationibus mortuariis Feudis vadiis pro omnibus singulis sepulturis Mortuorum in hoc Coemeterio aut ratione eorundem de jure sive consuetudine debitis in tam amplis modo forma ac si personae praedictae sepultae fuissent in Coemeterio Matricis Ecclesiae praedictae Quas quidem oblationes mortuaria feuda vadia omnia singula sic de jure ac consuetudine debita Rectori Guardianis Ministris dictae Matricis Ecclesiae pro tempore existentibus in perpetuum solvendi quantum in nobis est jura patiuntur reservamus per praesentes salva item nobis successoribus nostris tanquam loci Ordinariis potestate visitandi dictum Coemeterium de tempore in tempus inquirendi an sufficienter reparatum fuerit in clausuris an omnia ibi decenter et secundum ordinem fiant et si minus fiant per censuras Ecclesiasticas corrigendi His finitis precatur denuo LOrd God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob who because thou art the God not of the dead but of the Living shewest hereby that they are living and not dead and that with thee do live the spirits of all them that dye in the Lord and in whom the Souls of them that are Elect after they be delivered from the burden of this flesh be in joy and felicity thou hast said thou wilt turn men into small dust and after that wilt say Return again you Children of men Thou art the God of Truth and hast said it thou art the God of power and might and wilt do it by that power whereby thou art able to subdue all things unto thy self and bring to pass whatsoever pleaseth thee in Heaven and Earth with whom nothing is impossible Lord Jesu Christ who art the Resurection and the Life in whom if we believe though we be dead yet shall we live who by thy death hast overcome death and by thy rising again hast opened to us the Gate of everlasting life who shalt send thine Angels and gather the bodies of thine