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authority, ought to be rebuked openly,( that others may fear to do the like,) as he that offendeth against the common order of the

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ARTICLES OF RELIGION.

rity 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 ordained only by man's authority, so that all things be done to edifying.

XXXV. of Homilies.

THE HE 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 Homilies, which were set forth in the time of Edward the Sixth; and therefore 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.

1 F the right Use of the Church.

2 Against peril of Idolatry. 3 Of the repairing and keeping clean of Churches.

4 Of good Works: first of Fast­ing.

5 Against Gluttony and Drunk­

enness.

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.

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 Of 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 Magi­

strates.

THE Queen's Majesty hath the

chief power in this Realm of England, and other her Domi­nions, unto whom the chief Go­vernment of all Estates of this Realm, whether they be Eccle­siastical or Civil, in all causes doth appertain, and is not, nor ought to be, subject to any foreign Jurisdiction.

Where we attribute to the Queen's Majesty the chief go­vernment, by which Titles we understand the minds of some slanderous folks to be offended; we give not to our Princes the ministering either of God's Word, or of the Sacraments, the which thing the Injunctions also lately set forth by Elizabeth our Queen do most plainly testify; but that only prerogative, which we see to have been given always to all godly Princes in holy Scriptures by God himself; that is, that they should rule all estates and degrees committed to their charge by God, whether they be Ecclesiastical or Temporal, and restrain with the civil sword the stubborn and evildoers.

The Bishop of Rome hath no jurisdiction in this Realm of Eng­land.

The Laws of the Realm may