1>11\E~cT1oNs TO THE LORD ARCHBISHOB j A ‘ 0 F V t , C AN TERBURY; Concerning Preaching and Preachers; With the tBifl1op‘ of Canterézstrier Letter to the Bifhop of Lincoln: , Lord Keeper, defiringt him to put in praétife the Kings defires , that name fhould preach but in a Reltigious formc. Andnot that every young man {hould take to himfclfe an exorbitant Liberty, :9 preach what he lif’teth,to the oifence of his Ma: j¢Pcy, and the diflurbancc and difquict ofthc Church and Common-wcgilth. V". ' ~__. Iitinteé €95 ..7_'_’?.9E:€ Eféfkflfls ,I.§t¢..-. V: . ‘ ‘ I an ‘ W *E re4c:”..c1:O1‘11S ’ _§to the%j Lord» %JArch‘3~ Bi1'h o%p;; ~pf9%;C4gzte=rém{y-5:4;c.onccrriing F _ ~~f~»*:.. “iii; ~ '~= 'f',5¢fl5’;Q‘f:_4 1,.% _. V ‘« . ; " "right%"¢Ijti,fiq1}?, ,b;tg_3‘vt“d’: (§Q1iI1git;}~ITe)::ir%g- A’-»w"¢‘e .' 7 ‘gi-My (iii ’ W6?! fl :1“s «fiiud11‘;as*-t-rm. aw-{E3 \ nd cxtraw*aganci¢:s of Preachers in theVl’;i1’i&.? .,. .:»’L/ K)’ ' V v «5“MR-cal":a:i¢bV}I.;fmnt:cztifqffCdL1I}”ce1I,éAo5§‘tatd,A with th¢»!ad~»y%;rc. apgl; :%cgo%1gsi9u5af‘and1canncd“Pfe= latcs, if}dfO1i1hLlWC41‘i,F *aé'?‘fHE: 4§‘rE*E”y‘Ti?ccn5£iii3':g*%bf?VI’i‘@héhEi‘b had a‘ beginning . byan ordrzr of-. S‘tqa1j~crham!bq1;, the 8. day of 7:41}, % i;hth<=.1 9- with ,<)if?311<=%-%1i¢',e’i.§:;t+‘1<:i ¢%f‘KjiAn§.H=W "“k*?”€5%Wt Om % ,,1>,rc g2”(:<3II‘rAiL"1;1f.}‘ %A’i§;1,VV‘v(f1}¢:i'c§;£;s%d Am:-f tMs’Tr ptefcdfi divers . ypung S.’t,L}"§cir§t:é3,‘,}3yfca,i§1in la}: ‘W9ri”tcr'$afhd x.m“groun~. dad Divincs; "doc brdach; tj1‘aij:.y*’:tirf:é:s u ‘%‘p'm_fitab1c, un-- ibund, {editions smd’ a1aa:g¢r¢us4Apo&rines“to -the fcandam: qf'this_,, %dvao.d i,£L}t;¢;cfging 1})“ A‘. *6 State; a%nd:,_prc_fc'nb&=’ §39\{c{znmc_:}’t,‘fayt,:§§;;i§;}i5K;'g.<:,“l*t1t 4}é7?i”*€-{$rtfé|”1t1§fiT0mgntel1. ;tg§,g§gggcfai21cqxa§‘éi'a1&;m;az='§, _ % a;r¢~m:awmm ’ ’ " ' .1?r@sz~ Y’ 5:. ‘.~ L. j _ '3' ‘"2 N1. 2 _. .M M N ‘. “L i A. h, ‘fl " rcsgcrfind1?:ithEr;1rf4G'ed;;1¢;ht tr ufl‘y‘,¢'a1ad ‘t, have .,bccne at all times redratffcd in this . Prelatesbf this Church, as alfo or our Princely care and zeale for the extirpation of Schifrne, and difccnfion, grow» ing from thefc Seed s, and for the fetling of a Religious and peaceable Government, both of the Church and Statcgdoc by thefe our fpeciall Letters flreightly charge and com- ' mand you to ufe all poffible care and diligence, that thefe limitations and cautions herewith fent unto you, concer- ning Preachers, bee duely and llriftly from henceforths ob- ferved, and put in prafiife by the feverall Bilhops, of their fiverall Diocefles within your Iurisdiétiona. And to this end our plcafure is, that you {end them forth Coppies of thefe dire.&ions;I to bee by them fpeedily font and commun- nicated to every Parfon, Vicar,Curate, and P.-eflurer in ever- ry Cathedrall and Parilh Church , Within their feverall Dioceffes, and that you éarucrtly require them to employ their uttermoft endeavours in the performance of thiaio importa-nta bufinefle, letting them lnchx_t com;c_>c:a1tion~:, pr¢fcrib":; fame =fur.th"c1j- *p1Tzi~; gxiihmgnt. '53 Yyery gogdh Lord, ‘SI doubt not, but before « u:_n"c,“ yod have hrcccivcd; fgo ‘:,nc¢4 th;jD1r;3- _h Ehons 0!fh‘;1s'” mofl: cxccllé1gthM;;},c[’;y,_ ~c_on¢cr-'- h~ningf-I?r7cadhi*ngh-hand Préaciwrhsg Whichmré {Eu .4 - \ " I 0‘: . ‘ h’ I {q} é “ "~_ \ P ‘ ’ . 43', V 9 ©)\...!*.:/e grioiiy fct“ dqiwnc, 1% that, no godly or %di‘{cr_hecth man othcrwifc then‘ ?acknc“fiiv1hcdh_gc, that they déc much‘ tcridwtcvta =*$d1;fication,h if hcc ‘doc. hoftv «takcvthcm=hup% upon report; but -doc‘ pun"&ually~ cohfidcr the: tcn‘urc“eF the words as they V Lyn, gnd d ochndt giva ahi1“l% confirufijon to” ‘that, may hroccivc a’ ‘fairch‘int‘crprcfati(1m. ~hNo{w«it}hP:ahnd=ifig,4 bccahufé: ChuBchhmen;- ‘and frxnhhy-" eSf=th‘¢ pcop1‘c3,‘*ha~v'<;"{i=4 h piftcrly. “conccivcdas wee here fincfl,thatthé>fc~1nfl1‘u&ior}§ «do: tend to the rcflraint of the ¢x:r'cif:: of hprcachihg, ‘and »docinh'fomc~h.fo1=c raibatch the g)umher‘ofiSe'rm0ns and I0 cori- fcqucntly, by dcgrccs doc make a breach to‘? h/igzpotéhcc and Ifizpgrflitiong TI-Iisf Mafdfty “it”-fihis*I?ri7r1ccl3}Iwiicdomé, ‘hath thought fit, that Ihhfhou1d.wha~c1_vscrtifc :yout* Lord {hi p» o"-F=t“h§'é grave and rwcight~y+rcafons; Mwhichh induced» hisiflighneflf mprcfcribchthatwhhich isédhonc/.’ 7 “V? i A 9; M ». h < .:You are therefore to‘ hkndw. ='tha1:* his V Ma jetty bcihg -much ttoublajx‘ and ‘gricircd at the‘ hcart,h*to- thcara“ hcv-égy glay ofifqhmanyé dchfcéiionsfijqm our Rc1igiQn;~hoth»to»Po¢ pr; 3 pcry ;st"5=i‘y‘ and :Amb.amifme; Tor other? siiéifitfifft ,t ..fomo= partsoFtbis"»Kingdomc;;anadoconfidtermwwifimfiuA « admiration; whatpnight the cai!fctthcrl.e0l:49fPttiallj?t:g‘i:"g Jthe Raigvc Qffil1Chat1'§~.iI!g,h Whoa doth fa conliandygptotétfe Deflsieca .i.§ S.9l1§%i!!Sé is! §139.a5§ésls§9f33E1i:i9n, that himfelfe an open” Advcrlarjr to the Superflzition of,_the;dm:”; and madneffe of the other; his Princely wilcdomccoulcl fall upon no one greater probability, thct1.the1ight.ucfl¢_, afiefiedncffe, and lulnprofitableneffc of that kind of preach?- iqg, which hath beene oflatc ycares too tmulch taken auplin §3ourt,Vniverfity,City,and Countrey. The ufuall fcopeofver many Prcachepr.-2, is noted to; bee ‘foringc Up in points of ivInity;»too« deepe?»for«th7e‘ ’capég§ city ofthcpcople, ora muffting up of much reading, or a difplaying 0’-(their owne wif,or an ignorant 4rne31ifi£_?; with civill matters, as well in the private ofievcrall Parilhes and Corporations, as in the publike of the Kingdome;ol_' wan venting of their own: diftaff, or ,a finoothing up lofthqfc. .idlefancics, which ,in,this bleifedp time of a (0 long a peace‘, doe boilspin the braines of an unadvifcd ;people,. ‘or laflly, a rude orundecent rayling not againft at-he Doélgrineflwhich when the Text fhalloccafion the fame, not onely ap- proved, but much commcndcd by his :oR0yall~ M.;aj.e[iy,) but 'again& the Perfons of Papifisand Puritans. 3 Nowttfhfi people bred up with this kind ofteaching", and nevetjma aafiguaed in the Catcchifmc and mndamencall gtroundslof Religion, are for all this Ayry "nouri_{h;ment,a no bcttervthcn t(4bmjac tabnlq) new table bookes ready to bee filledup, either with the Manuals and Catechifmcspoff th¢ Popifh Pricfls, or the Papers and Pamphl¢,t$lO.fr Anabaptifls; ~Briow-3 gifts, and Puritans. * -. fr. A; W; I-lis Majcfty therefore lcalli-ngo otiimind ltheafayingof fgrtullimz, (Id wmm quad A prinfllm ;?; ;)_f:and rcmcmbpng; with what; Dofftiné thei Church of England in her. fir£_3; and molt happy Reformation, did. drive out the‘onc;and lultcepe out the other from poifoningand infefiingathe ped- fple ofthis Kingdomc: doth find thatthe whole {cope of S310. bn¢A<¢§;a£i1ami1tea; “rem” tithe tehhifmeggwhichiithisaiMa«i¢l}§ir;dO;th rccammcnd 3$.3ifl¢lfl "-~t:l1:efé~i~re&iens.?€as":theail:Tl1€amcs and, prqpgr;_Seub1ee¢tsV oi}, sillzfoimid l.'1g"»‘-‘l'i;5?;.;:l 7.5 " -t ~ ~ .13 .4¢fl‘ct ‘and ‘the gféatéii C3} 5 9+ I‘ »‘ l. ', ‘, -l V‘ i E; And (0 Elm: are the-{e Direéttons ti-,;a_.trx;?ta§:atir;g,”aa_;that hie. Majellay doth expecft at our hands, that" itlhould mcreafe ' the number of§er;non§ bx. rengj‘ngt1p,oq[ ‘eykery Sunday in the a&ernone‘i‘“n an‘ ‘P“a‘fifI1"Ch’utléhe§‘fthlrdugheiit the Kin g- dome, that iPrimitiye,_and moi‘: profitable expofition of the Cateehifti’1e,t‘»t\isr;hetevvjththefieotilegefiyea) very Chile! dren may bee timely feafoned and inllruéted in all the heads of Chriltian rRe;,li;giqtj,~» the which kind ofteaching (to our amendment bee it fpoken,) is more diligently oh-‘V ierved in all the reformed Churches of Europe, then of late —ithathrtbccncn ‘l‘lciL:‘i€'ilillfilfiiaag/Eikdf9 I find t.hi5 Maicftylz much .tt.‘Ii0v->¢d fwith this negxee. arid r rcfolvcdsitfl ii; Wc¢that‘fire his Bifliope, doe" not fee aiRélortna"ti6h‘hereof,‘*WhiCh'I‘ :truPc wee {hall ) to recommend it to care of the Civil! Magifi-rate. :30 farm iéhiskljli hnelle afromagiving the lcafl: difcoiuragemcnt to "follide pr a"cl;f1ing._.f%0r ’difcreet‘, Ordrelifg ggious Preacher”s.“’ .tf_f 1. x n. .4 + To all this, I am to aclde, that itis his Ma j’ cities Prince-I ‘ly plea_fure,_ that bqth the former Dircflions, and thofe rea- (ons dftihet farnqgeee faifcly ‘writtcnin C§éEY‘R.,¢gll§,C;@$.0f—n. ‘lice; to ’the3qi?1dt,+‘that’ evprfr ll Preacher, of.tlwhat’{j3;f_t*i tion focver; may if Thee beefo fplcafed take out Coppies of either olthem with his own: hand gratin) ; new thing in the name of fee=and,expcdi_tioi1.. 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