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A55307 The Samaritan shewing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oyl that must heal the church together with the way or means to do it / by a country gentleman who goes to common-prayer and not to meetings. Polhill, Edward, 1622-1694? 1682 (1682) Wing P2756; ESTC R3092 63,931 131

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the Offices 〈◊〉 there performed he shall not be Punishable for any Breach otherwise of the Acts of Vniformity any thing in the said Statutes to the Contrary notwithstanding THE Bill for Indulgence FOrasmuch as Some Ease to Tender Consciences in the Exercise of Religion may be an Effectual Means to Unite His Majesties Protestant Subjects in Interest and Affection which is highly necessary in this time of Eminent Danger from the common Enemy the Papists Be it Enacted By the Kings Most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled That neither the Statute made in the 23d Year of the Reign of the Late Queen Elizabeth Entituled An Act to retain the Queens Majesties Subjects in their due Obedience Nor the Statute made in the Twenty Eighth Year of the said Queen Entituled An Act for the more speedy and due Execution of certain Branches of the Statute made in the Twenty Third Year of the Queens Majesties REIGN Videlicet the aforesaid Act Nor Statute made in the Third Year of the Reign of the Late King James Entituled An Act to prevent and avoid dangers which may grow by Popish Recusants Nor any other Law or Statute of this Realm made against Popish Recusants shall be construed to Extend to any Person or Persons Dissenting from the Church of England that shall being lawfully required take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy which Oath of Allegiance is contained in a Statute made in the Third Year of the Late King James and make and Subscribe the Declaration mentioned in a Statute made in the Twentieth Year of His Majesties Reign that now is Entituled An Act to prevent Papists from Sitting in either House of Parliament And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Person and Persons already Convicted or Prosecuted in Order to Conviction of Recusancy by Indictment Information Action of Debt or otherwise grounded upon the aforesaid Statutes or any of them that shall take the said Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and make and Subscribe the aforesaid Declaration in the Court of Exchequer or Assizes or General or Quarter Sessions to be held for the County where such Person lives and to be thence respectively certified into the Exchequer shall be thenceforth discharged from all the Penalties Seizures and Forfeitures incurred by force of any the aforesaid Statutes without any Composition Fee or further Charge whatsoever And be it further Enacted By the Authority aforesaid that all and every Person and Persons that being lawfully required shall take the said Oaths and make and subscribe the Declaration aforesaid shall not be liable to any Pains Penalties or Forfeitures mentioned in an Act made the Thirty Fifth Year of the late Queen Elizabeth Entituled An Act to retain the Queens Majesties Subjects in their due Obedience Nor in an Act made in the Twenty Second Year of His Majesty that now is Entituled An Act to prevent and suppress Seditions Conventicles Nor shall any of the said Persons be Prosecuted in any Ecclesiastical COURT for or by reason of their Non-conforming to the CHURCH of ENGLAND The Bill proceeds next to a Proviso That the Doors be not Locked Barred or Bolted where there are Meetings Then to the Relieving Constables Church-Wardens and the like Officers that Scruple the Oaths that be long to those Offices by admitting a Deputy Then to the Repealing the Oxford Act or Releasing the Penalty to all such as shall take the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and Subscribe to the Declaration aforesaid and the Doctrinal Articles of the Church of England with the exceptions of the former Bill Upon the same Terms Liberty is granted to any Person to teach a School or be a Tutor in a Private Family It Proceeds to giving Ease upon the same to Dissenting Protestants who Scruple the Baptizing Infants Then to the Easing other Persons who scruple Taking all Oaths whom it shall suffice to say That J. A. B. Acknowledge Profess and Testify instead of J. A. B. Swear That c. According to the Words of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy Then there is an Excellent Proviso That no Persons who do not go upon Sundays to some Congregation of Religious Worship allowed by this Act shall have any benefit at all by it The Bill is Long upon these Contents and therefore upon Consideration also that it hath been once Printed already so that the Copy thereof is in the hands of many when it is not so nor could be so with the other it is conceived best to forbear any further Repetition For indeed if the whole Bill for Indulgence were waved and one Clause onely advanced into the Bill before for Comprehension giving it the Title of a Bill for Comprehension and Indulgence both it were rather to be Chosen and easier Passed That Clause should be to this effect ANd forasmuch as there are some Ministers of a good Life that cannot according to their Judgments allow of our Parochial Churches nor a Book of Liturgy but do chuse to Worship God and Jesus Christ in the way of their Gathered or Separate Congregations and crave the Protection and Clemency of the King upon their Allegiance as other Subjects Be it finally Enacted for the Happiness and quiet of the Realm and the Reduction of these Men by other means than those which have hitherto proved unsuccessful That every Christian Subject throughout the Land that profess the Reformed Religion be pardoned all Faults and Penalties incurr'd upon the Account of any forepast Nonconformity And that all Prosecutions of the Paenal Laws which concern the Protestants and not the Papists in the matter of Religion shall be Suspended Vntil by a further Act of Parliament those that are fit to be tollerated and the Intollerable be distinguished and such Order be taken as is necessary to the settling a more Firm and Lasting Vnion in the Nation ERRATA PAge 20. l. 8. read cuervo p. 27. l. 15. r. Nachmanides p. 45. l. 31. r. many other p. 51. l. 5. for hope r. help p. 56. l. 10. r. desquels l 23. r. function p. 58. l. 8. f. as r. or p. 61. l. 7. r. proposition p. 72. l. 21. after are r. not Some literal mistakes there are in the Oriental words as Cheth for Ain and Pe for Mem and others which I omit Besides the mangling some French and Italian Quotations FINIS