forth to the people the true meaning of the and effect of his whole Sermon, and add Item; That no Parson, Vicar, Curat, or other Priest, having Cure of Souls within my Diocess and Jurisdiction, shall from henceforth permit, suffer, or admit any manner of person, of whatsoever estate or condition he be, under the degree of a Bishop, to preach, or make any Sermon or Collation openly to the people within their Churches, Chappels, or else-where within their Cures, unless he that shall so preach, have obtained before special License in that behalf, of our Sovereign Lord the King, or of me Edmund Bishop of London, your Ordinary; And the same License so obtained, shall then and there really bring forth in writing under Seal, and shew the same to the said Parson, Vicar, Curat, or Priest, before the beginning of his Sermon, as they will avoid the extream Penalties of the Laws, Statutes, and Ordinances, provided and established in that behalf, if they presumptuously do or attempt any thing to the contrary. Item; I desire, require, exhort, and command you, and every of you, in the Name of God, That ye firmly, faithfully, and diligently, to the uttermost of your powers, do observe, fulfil, and keep all and singular these mine Injunctions. And that ye, and every of you, being Priests, and having Cure, or not Cure, as well Benefice as not Benefice, within my Diocess and Jurisdiction, do procure to have a Copy of the same Injunctions, to the intent ye may the better observe, and cause to be observed the contents thereof. The Names of Books prohibited, delivered to the Curats Anno 1542, to the intent that they shall present them with the Names of the Owners, to their Ordinary, if they find any such within their Parishes. THE Disputation between the Father and the Son. The Supplication of Beggars; the Author Fish. The Revelation of Antichrist. The Practice of Prelates, written by Tindall. The Book of Friar Barnes, twice printed. Chap. to the Corinth. Canonick of St. John. The New Testament of Tindall's Translation, with his Preface before the whole Book, and before the Epistles of St. Paul ad Rom. The Preface made in the English Prymmers, by Marshall, The Church of John Rastall. before the Epistle of St. Paul ad Romanos, of The Table, Glosses, Marginal, and Preface Thomas Mathews doing, and printed beyond the Sea without priviledg, set in his Bible in English. The A. B. C. against the Clergy. the Seven Sacraments. The Wicked Mammon. The Parable of the Wicked Mammon. Prologue to Genesis, translated by Tindal. The Obedience of a Christian Man. The Preface before the Psalter, in English. The Dialogue between the Gentleman and the Ploughman. The Book of Jonas, in English. The Dialogue of Goodale. Defensorium Paris; out of Latin into English. The Summ of Christianity. The Mirror of them that be Sick and in Pain. Treatise of the Supper of the Lord; by Calwyn.* Every one of Calwyn's Works, The celebrated Reformer, John Calvin, He that knowledgeth not himself to be under the Bishop of Rome, and that the Bishop of Rome is ordained by God to have Primacy over all the World, is an Heretick, and cannot be saved, nor is not of the flock of Christ. Dist. 10. De Sententia Excommunicationis, Princes Laws, if they be against the Canons and Decrees of the Bishop of Rome, be of no force nor strength. Dist. 19, 20, 24, q. 1. A recta memor. Quotiens hæc est. 25. q. 1. General. violatores. All the Decrees of the Bishop of Rome ought to be kept perpetually of every Man, without any repugnancy, as God's Word spoken by the Mouth of Peter; and whosoever doth not receive them, neither availeth them the Catholick Faith, nor the four Evangelists, but they blaspheme the Holy Ghost, and shall have no forgiveness. 35. q. 1. Generali. All Kings, Bishops, and Noblemen, that believe or suffer the Bishop of Rome's Decrees in any thing to be violate, be accursed, and for ever culpable before God, as transgressors of the Catholick Faith. Dist. 21. Quamvis, et 24. q. 1. A recta memor. The See of Rome hath neither spot nor wrinkle in it, nor cannot err. 35. q. 1. Ideo de Senten. et re judicata, de jurejurando licet ad Apostolicæ li. 6. de jurejurando. The Bishop of Rome is not bound to any 9. q. 2. Ipsi cuncta. Nemo z. q. 6. dudum The Bishop of Rome hath authority to judg all men, and specially to discern the Articles of the Faith, and that without any Counsel, and may assoil them that the Counsel hath damned; but no man hath authority to judg him, nor to meddle with any thing that he hath judged, neither Emperor, King, People, nor the Clergy: And it is not lawful for any man to dispute of his Power. gr their States, and Assoil their Subjects from their Oath and Obedience to them, and so constrain them to rebellion. De Major. et obedien. solit. Clement. de Sententia et re judicata. Pastoral. The Emperor is the Bishop of Rome's Subject, and the Bishop of Rome may revoke the Emperor's Sentence in temporal Causes. De Elect. et Electi potestate Venerabilem. It belongeth to the Bishop of Rome to allow or disallow the Emperor after he is elected; and he may translate the Empire from one Region to another. De Supplenda Negligen. prælat. Grand. li. 6. The Bishop of Rome may appoint Coadjutors unto Princes. Dist. 17. Si nodem. Regula. Nec licuit multum. Concilia. 96. ubinam. There can be no Council of Bishops with out the Authority of the See of Rome; and the Emperor ought not to be present at the Council, except when matters of the Faith be entreating, which belong universally to every Man. 2. q. 6. Nothing may be done against him that appealeth unto Rome. 1. q. 3. Aliorum Dist. 40. Si Papa. Dist. 96. Satis. The Bishop of Rome may be judged ot none but of God only; for altho he neither regard his own Salvation, nor no Man's else, but draw down with himself innumerable people by heaps unto Hell; yet may no mortal Man in this World presume to reprehend him: forsomuch as he is called God, for God may be may not be judged of man, be judged of no man. 3. z. q. 5. The Bishop of Rome may open and shut Heaven unto Men. Dist. 40. Non nos. The See of Rome receiveth holy Men, or else maketh them holy. De Pænitentia. Dist. 1. Serpens. De locorum præcepta. To be Senator, Capitane, Patrician, Governour, or Officer of Rome, none shall be elected or pointed, without the express license and special consent of the See of Rome. De Electione et Electi potestate Venerabilem. It appertaineth to the Bishop of Rome to judg which Oaths ought to be kept, and which not. De jurejurand. Si vero. 15. q. 6. Authoritatem. De foro competent. Er tenore. De donat. inter The Bishop of Rome is judg in temporal things, and hath two Swords, Spiritual and Temporal. De Hæreticis multorum. The Bishop of Rome may give Authority to arrest Men, and imprison them in Mana cles and Fetters. Extrav. de Consuetudine super gentes. The Bishop of Rome may compel Princes to receive his Legats. De Truga et Pace. Trugas. It belongeth also to him to appoint and command Peace and Truce to be observed and kept or not. De Præbend. et dig. dilectus et li. 6. licet. The Collation of all Spiritual Promotions appertain to the Bishop of Rome. De Excessibus prælatorum. Sicut umre. The Bishop of Rome may unite Bishopricks together, and put one under another at his pleasure. Li. 6. de pænis Felicis. In the Chapter Felicis li. 6. de pœnis, is the most partial and unreasonable Decree made by Bonifacius 8. that ever was read or heard, against them that be Adversaries to any Cardinal of Rome, or to any Clerk, or Religious man of the Bishop of Rome's family. Dist. 28. Consulendum. Dist. 96. Si Imperator. 11. q. 1. Quod Clericus. Nemo nullus. Clericum, &c. et q. 2. Quod vero de sentent. Excommunication. Si judex q. 2. q.5. Si quis de foro competent. Nullus. Si quis. Ex transmissa. de foro compet. in 6 Seculares. Lay-men may not be Judges to any of the Clergy, nor compel them to pay their undoubted Debts, but the Bishops only must be their Judges. De foro Competent. Cum sit licet. Rectors of Churches may convent such as do them wrong, whither they will, before a Spiritual Judg, or a Temporal. Idem ex parte Dilecti. A Lay-man being spoiled, may convent his Adversaries before a Spiritual Judg, whether the Lords of the Feod consent thereto or not. Ihidem Significasti, et 11. q. 1. placuit. A Lay-man may commit his Cause to a Spiritual Judg; but one of the Clergy may not commit his Cause to a Temporal Judg, without the consent of the Bishop. Ne Clerici vel Monachi. Secundum. De Sententia Excommunicationis. Noverit extra. Lay-men may have no Benefices to farm. de Pænitentiis et Remiss. &c. etsi. All they that make, or write any Statutes contrary to the Liberties of the Church; and such Statutes be made, or such Customs oball Princes, Rulers, and Counsellors, where served, and all the Judges and others that put the same in execution; and where such Statutes and Customs have been made and observed of old time, all they that put them and that so grievously, that they cannot be not out of their Books be excommunicate, assoiled but only by the Bishop of Rome. De Immunitate Ecclesia. Non minus adversus. Quia Quum et in 6. Clericis. The Clergy, to the relief of any common necessity, can nothing confer without the consent of the Bishop of Rome; nor it is not lawful for any Lay-man to lay any Imposi tion of Taxes, Subsidies, or any charges upon the Clergy. Dist. 97. Hoc capitulo et 63. Nullus et que sequuntur. Non alie cum Laic. Lay-men may not meddle with Elections belongeth unto them. of the Clergy, nor with any other thing that De jurejurando. Nimis. The Clergy ought to give no Oath of Fi- Dist. 96. Bene Quidem, 12. q. 2. Apostolicos. The Goods of the Church may in no wise be alienated, but whosoever receiveth or the Church have any Ground, which is little buyeth them, is bound to restitution; and if or nothing worth, yet it shall not be given to the Prince; and if the Prince will needs buy it, the Sale shall be void and of no strength. 13. q. 2. Non liceat. alienate or mortgage any Lands of the Church, It is not lawful for the Bishop of Rome to for every manner of necessity, except it be Houses in Cities, which be very chargeable to support and maintain. Dist. 96. Quis nunquam, 3. q. 6. Accusatio De Major. et obedien. solite. No judg ought to refuse the Witness of one Bishop, although he be but alone. De Hæriticis ad abolendam, et in Clementinis ut officium. Whosoever teacheth or thinketh of the Sacraments otherwise than the See of Rome doth teach and observe, and all they that the same See doth judg Hereticks, be Excom municate. And the Bishop of Rome may compel by an Oath, all Rulers and other People, to observe, and cause to be observed, whatsoever the See of Rome shall ordain concerning Heresy, and the Fautors thereof; and who will not obey, he may deprive them of their Dignities. Clement. de reliq. et venerat. Sanctorum. Si torum. Whosoever offendeth the Liberties of the Church, or doth violate any Interdiction that cometh from Rome, or conspireth against the Person, or Statute of the Bishop, or See of Rome; or by any ways offendeth, disobeyeth, or rebelleth against the said Bishop, or See, or that killeth a Priest, or offendeth personally against a Bishop, or other Prelate; or invadeth, spoileth, withholdeth, or wasteth Lands belonging to the Church of Rome, or to any other Church immediately subject to the same; or whosoever invadeth any Pilgrims that go to Rome, or any Suitors to the Court of Rome, or that lett the devolution of Causes unto that Court, or that put any new Charges or Impositions, real or personal upon any Church, or Ecclesiastical Person; and generally all other that offend in the Cases contained in the Bull, which is usually published by the Bishops of Rome upon Maundy Thursday; all these can be assoiled by no Priest, Bishop, Arch-Bishop, nor by none other but only by the Bishop of Rome, or by his express license. 2.4. q. z. Robbing of the Clergy, and poor Men appertaineth unto the judgment of the Bishops. 23. 9. q. He is no Man-slayer that slayeth a Man which is Excommunicate. Dist. 63. Tibi Domino de sententia Excommunicationis. Si judex. Here may be added the most tyrannical and abominal Oaths which the Bishop of Rome exacts of the Emperors; in Clement. de jurejurando Romani dist. 6. 3, Tibi Domino. De Consecra. Dist. 1. Sicut. It is better not to Consecrate, than to Consecrate in a place not Hallowed. De Consecrat. Dist. 5. De his manus, ut jejuni Confirmation, if it be ministered by any other than a Bishop, is of no value, nor is no Sacrament of the Church; also Confirmation is more to be had in reverence than Baptism; and no Man by Baptism can be a Christned Man without Confirmation. L De pæniten. Dist. 1. Multiplex. A penitent Person can have no remission of his Sin, but by supplication of the Priests. XXVIII.—A Mandate for publishing and using the Prayers in the English Tongue. [Regist. Bonner. Fol. 48.] Mandatum Domino Episcopo London. direct. pro publicatione Regiarum Injunctionum. MOST Reverend Father in God, right trusty and right well-beloved, we greet you well, and let you wit, That calling to our remembrance the miserable state of all Christendom, being at this present, besides all other troubles, so plagued with most cruel Wars, Hatred, and Dissensions, as no place of the same alınost (being the whole reduced to a very narrow corner) remaineth in good Peace, Agreement, and Concord; the help and remedy whereof far exceeding the power of any Man, must be called for of him who only is able to grant our Petitions, and never forsaketh nor repelleth any that firmly believe and faithfully call on him; unto whom also the example of Scripture encourageth us, in all these and other our troubles and necessities, to fly and to cry for aid and succour; being therefore resolved to have continually from henceforth general Processions, in all Cities, Towns, Churches, and Parishes of this our Realm, said and sung, with such reverence and devotion as appertaineth. Forasmuch as heretofore the People, partly for lack of good Instruction and Calling, and partly for that they understood no part of such Prayers or Suffrages as were used to be sung and said, have used to come very slackly to the Procession, when the same have been commanded heretofore; We have set forth certain godly Prayers and Suffrages in our Native English Tongue, which we send you herewith, signifying unto you, That for the special trust and confidence we have of your godly mind, and earnest desire, to the setting forward of the Glory of God, and the true worshipping of his most Holy Name, within that Province committed by us unto you, we have sent unto you these Suffrages, not to be for a month or two observed, and after slenderly considered, as other our Injunctions have, to our no little marvel, been used; but to the intent that as well the same, as other our Injunctions, may be earnestly set forth by preaching good Exhortations and otherwise to the People, in such sort as they feeling the godly tast thereof, may godly and joyously, with thanks, receive, embrace, and frequent the same, as appertaineth. Wherefore we will and command you, as you will answer unto us for the contrary, not only to cause these Prayers and Suffrages aforesaid to be published, frequented, and openly used in all Towns, Churches, Villages, and Parishes of your own Diocess, but also to signify this our pleausre unto all other Bishops of your Province, willing and command them in our Name, and by virtue hereof, to do and execute the same accordingly. Unto whose Proceedings, in the execution of this our Commandment, we will that you have a special respect, and make report unto us, if any shall not with good dexterity accomplish the same; Not failing, as our special trust is in you. At St. James's, Junii-Regni 36. Directed to the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury. pitiation and satisfaction for the sins of the World; forasmuch as it is the self-same in Substance which was offered upon the Cross for our Redemption: And the Oblation and Action of the Priest is also a Sacrifice of Praise and Thanksgiving unto God for his Benefits, and not the satisfaction for the Sins of the World, for that is only to be attributed to Christ's Passion. The Sixth; The said Oblation, or Sacrifice, so by the Priest offered in the Mass, is available and profitable, both for the Quick and the Dead, although it lieth not in the power of Man to limit how much, or in what measure the same doth avail. The Seventh; It is not a thing of necessity, that the Sacrament of the Altar should be ministred unto the People under both kinds, of Bread and Wine: and it is none abuse that the same be ministred to the People under the one kind; forasmuch as in every of both the kinds, whole Christ, both Body and Blood is contained. The Eighth; It is no derogation to the vertue of the Mass, although the Priest do receive the Sacrainent alone, and none other receive it with him. The Ninth; The Mass used in this Realm of England, is agreeable to the Institution of Christ; and we have in this Church of England, the very true Sacrament, which is the very Body and Blood of our Saviour Christ, under the form of Bread and Wine. The Tenth; The Church of Christ bath, doth, and may lawfully order some Priests to be Ministers of the Sacraments, although XXIX.-The Articles acknowledged by Sharton, the same do not preach, nor be not admitted late Bishop of Sarum, [Regist. Bonner. Fol. 100.] THE FIRST; Almighty God, by the Power of his Word, pronounced by the Priest at Mass in the Consecration, turneth the Bread and Wine into the natural Body and Blood of our Saviour Jesus Christ; so that after the Consecration there remaineth no substance of Bread and Wine, but only the Substance of Christ, God and Man, The Second; The said Blessed Sacrament being once Consecrate, is and remaineth still the very Body and Blood of our Saviour Christ, although it be reserved, and not presently distributed. The Third; The same blessed Sacrament being Consecrate, is and ought to be worshipped and adored with godly honour wheresoever it is, forasmuch as it is the Body of Christ inseparably united to the Deity. The Fourth; The Church by the Ministra tion of the Priest, offereth daily at the Mass for a Sacrifice to Almighty God, the self-same Body and Blood of our Saviour Christ, under the form of Bread and Wine, in the remembrance and representation of Christ's Death and Passion. The Fifth; The same Body and Blood which is offered in the Mass, is the very pro thereunto. The Eleventh; Priests being once dedicated unto God by the Order of Priesthood, and all such Men and Women as have advisedly made Vows unto God of Chastity or Widowhood, may not lawfully marry, after their said Orders received, or Vows made. The Twelfth; Secret auricular Confession is expedient and necessary to be retained, continued, and frequented in the Church of Christ. The Thirteenth; The Prescience and Predestination of Almighty God, although in itself it be infallible, induceth no necessity to the Action of Man, but that he may freely use the power of his own will or choice, the said Prescience or Predestination notwithstanding. I Nicholas Shaxton, with my Heart, do believe, and with my Mouth do confess all these Articles above-written to be true in every part. Ne despicias hominem avertentem se a peccato, neque improperes ei: memento quoniam omnes in corruptione sumus, Eccles. 8. |