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Christ's ordinance and commandment, ought to be ministered to all Christian men alike.

ARTICLES OF RELIGION.

XXXV. Of the Homilies.

THE second Book of Homilies, the several titles whereof we have joined under this Article, doth contain a godly and wholesome Doctrine, and necessary for these times, as doth the former Book of were

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Tis that perfect redemption, propitia- time of Edward the Sixth; and therefore

tion, and satisfaction, for all the sins of the whole world, both original and ac­tual; and there is none other satisfac­tion for sin, but that alone Wherefore the sacrifices of Masses, in the which it was commonly said, that the Priest did offer Christ for the quick and the dead, to have remission of pain or guilt, were blasphemous fables, and dangerous de­ceits.

XXXI. Of the one Oblation of Christ finished upon the Cross.

XXXII. Of the Marriage of Priests.

not commanded by God's Law, either to vow the estate of single life, or to abstain from marriage: therefore it is lawful for them, as for all other Christian men, to marry at their own discretion, as they shall judge the same to serve better to godliness.

XXXIII. Of excommunicate Persons, how they are to be avoided

THAT person which by open denun­ciation of the Church is rightly cut off from the unity of the Church, and excommunicated, ought to be taken of the whole multitude of the faithful, as an Heathen and Publican, until he be openly reconciled by penance, and re­ceived into the Church by a Judge that hath authority thereunto.

XXXIV. Of the Traditions of the Church. IT is not necessary that Traditions and

Ceremonies be in all places one, and utterly like; for at all times they have been divers, and may be changed accord­ing to the diversities of countries, times, and men's manners, so that nothing be ordained against God's Word. Whosoever through his private judgment, willingly and purposely, doth openly break the traditions and ceremonies of the Church, which be not repugnant to the Word of God, and be ordained and approved by common authority, ought to be rebuked openly,( that others may fear to do the like,) as he that offendeth against the common order of the Church, and hurt­eth the authority of the Magistrate, and woundeth the consciences of the weak brethren.

Every particular or national Church hath authority to ordain, change, and abolish, ceremonies or rites of the Church only by so

all things be done to edifying.

we judge them to be read in Churches by the Ministers, diligently and distinct­ly, that they may be understanded of the people.

Of the Names of the Homilies.

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F the right Use of the Church. Against peril of Idolatry.

3 Of the repairing and keeping clean of Churches.

4 Of good Works: first of Fasting. 5 Against Gluttony and Drunkenness. 6 Against Excess of Apparel. 7 Of Prayer.

8 Of the Place and Time of Prayer.

9 That Common Prayers and Sacra­ments ought to be ministered in a known tongue

10 Of the reverend estimation of God's Word.

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11 Of Alms- doing

12 of the Nativity of Christ.

13 Of the Passion of Christ 14 of the Resurrection of Christ

15 of the worthy receiving of the Sa­crament of the Body and Blood of Christ.

16 Of the Gifts of the Holy Ghost. 17 For the Rogation- days. 18 0 the state of Matrimony. 19 Of Repentance

20 Against Idleness

21 Against Rebellion.

XXXVI Of Consecration of Bishops and Ministers.

THE Book of Consecration of Arch­bishops and Bishops, and Ordering of Priests and Deacons, lately set forth in the time of Edward the Sixth, and con­firmed at the same time by authority of Parliament, doth contain all things neces­sary to such Consecration and Ordering: neither hath it any thing, that of itself is superstitious and ungodly And there­fore whosoever are consecrated or ordered according to the Rites of that Book, since the second year of the forenamed King Edward unto this time, or hereafter shall be consecrated or ordered according to the same Rites; we decree all such to be rightly, orderly, and lawfully consecrated and ordered.

XXXVII of the Civil Magistrates. THE King's Majesty hath the chief power of

and other his Dominions, unto whom the