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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 abominable 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 Ministred 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 Christian Man without Confirmation.

De Pœnitent. Dist. 1. Multiplex.

A penitent Person can have no Remission of his Sin, but by supplication of the Priests.

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XXVIII.

A Mandate for Publishing and using the Prayers in the English

Tongue.

Mandatum Domino Episcopo London. direct: Pro publicatione

Regiarum Injunctionum.

Bonner.

MOST Reverend Father in God, right trusty and right well- Register, beloved we greet you well, and let you wit, That calling to our Fol. 48. remembrance the miserable State of all Christendom, being at this present, besides all other troubles, so plagued with most cruel Wars, Hatred, and Dissentions, as no place of the same

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BOOK almost (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 repealeth 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 taste 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 Pleasure, unto all other Bishops of your Province, willing and commanding 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,

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we will that you have a special respect, and make report unto BOOK 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.

XXIX.

The Articles acknowledged by Shaxton, late Bp. of Sarum.

Bonner.

THE First; Almighty God by the Power of his Word, pro- Register, nounced by the Priest at Mass in the Consecration, turneth the Fol. 100. 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 Ministration 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 propitiation 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

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BOOK 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, altho' 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, altho' the Priest do receive the Sacrament 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 hath, doth, and may lawfully order some Priests to be Ministers of the Sacraments, altho' the same do not preach, nor be not admitted there

unto.

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, altho' in it self 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 Predestina- BOOK tion notwithstanding.

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I Nicholas Shaxton, with my Heart do
believe, and with my Mouth do con-
fess all these Articles above-written to
be true in every part.

Ne despicias hominem avertentem se a peccato, ne-
que improperes ei: Memento quoniam omnes in
corruptione sumus, Ecclus. 8.

XXX.

A Letter written by Lethington the Secretary of Scotland, to Sir
William Cecil, the Queen of England's Secretary, touching the
Title of the Queen of Scots to the Crown of England: By which
it appears that K. Henry's Will was not signed by him.

D.G. Peryt.

I CANNOT be ignorant that some do object as to her Ma- Ex MSS. jesty's Foreign Birth, and hereby think to make her incapable of the Inheritance of England. To that you know for Answer what may be said by an English Patron of my Mistress's Cause, altho' I being a Scot will not affirm the same, that there ariseth amongst you a Question, Whether the Realm of Scotland be forth of the Homage and Leageance of England? And therefore you have in sundry Proclamations preceeding your Wars making, and in sundry Books at sundry times, laboured much to prove the Homage and Fealty of Scotland to England. Your Stories also be not void of this intent. What the judgment of the Fathers of your Law is, and what commonly is thought in this Matter, you know better than I, and may have better intelligence than I, the Argument being fitter for your Assertion than mine.

Another Question there is also upon this Objection of Foreign Birth; That is to say, Whether Princes inheritable to the Crown be, in case of the Crown, exempted or concluded as D d

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