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stitutions ahS Cahonfe Ecclesiasticall , " ^ Wished p rofessedl y by the two convocations , but really w £ suppdste by Laud , in the year 1640 . They issued b
are before us ill a pamphlet y Royal Authority , with a Proclamation of Charles ' s prefixed , bearing date in that year . As this is a rare and curious document , we shall extract the IVth Constitution or Canon ,
against Sociniamstne . "Whereas much mischiefe is already done in the Church of God by the spreading of the dattinable and carsed lrer £ sie of Socinianismfe , as being a complication of many ancient heresies condemned by the fonre first
generall councels , and contrarieiit to the articles of religion now established ill the Church of Englattd : And whereas it is too apparent that the said wicked and blasphemous errors are unhappily dilated by the frequent divulgation and dispersion of dangerous books written in favour and :
furtherance of the same , whereby many , especially of the younger , or unsettled sort of people , maybe poisoned and infected : It is therefore decreed by this present synod , That ti o Stationer , Printer , or Importer of the said books , or any other person what so vet , shall
pnnt , buy , sell , or dispersemiy booke , broaching or maintaining * of the said abominable doctrine or positions , upon paiu of excommunication ipso facto to be thereupon incurred : And wee require all ordinaries upon paine of the censures of the Churchthat be-*¦ ¦¦
, w * - **» - % -J * - « % . ^_» VJ VI . « . X » V > ^ - / » » - * ^~/ -M . M % VAJ . U U H-T ^«* side the excommunication aforesaid , they doe certifie their names and offences under their Episcopal Scale to the metropolitane , by him to be delivered to his Majesties Attorney Generall for the time being , to be
proceeded withall according to the late « ree , in the -Honourable Court of Star-chamber , against Spreaders of prohibited books . And that no preacher shall presume to vent any such doctrine in any sermon , under paine < Ji exco mmunication for the first ofteuce , and deprivation for the second ,
* w that no student in either of the u mversities of this land , nor any Person in fjoly oi * d £ i > s , ( excepting ^ abates in divimty , 6 r sttcli as have ^ P » scopall or archidia ^ oiiall juri ^ dic-T > »* doctbrs of law inhdly orders ) Ti ^ fffe retf to 4 ftffrfe ^ r X&i&e art ^ r u Socinian bodl ^ or ^ fdtfuf * fe , Ull ( w pftifce fifths offender live in the
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University ) that he shall be pw » teh * according ; to the strictest itatoiim fW ^ vided there against th £ ptobftehteg reWidg or niaintainiia ^ of Mtf * d « IS trine , or if he live in the city W country abroad , < yf a susp 6 n £ ion fti ? the first otrence , and ex < ioffirMiril ( 4 tioti for the second , atifl depiivatkft
for the third , untesse h * & \ ft him lutely and in termini * abjtire th ^ SffftlK And if any laytakfc shaft W s ^ M ^ e 4 into this opinion , and be coni 4 < ftell xM it , he shall be ( e ^ cdlrimmilcaFlied > ttltk not absolved but up 6 n xlue fepliWtsn ^ Clfe and abjtfr ^ tion , awd that beft ^ fc fh #
nretropoHtane , ot his own bishop # t the least . And wiee likewfefe tnjoy ¥ ^ that such bookSs if thej ftt found te any prohibited hand > s ^ al l foe irflftmdiately burned , aMi that ttier ^ b € 4 diligent search made by the app #$ ftifi ment of the ordinary affdr all sfctch books , in what hands stfev £ f-, e ^ c ^ fW
they be now in the foa&ds of &tif graduate in divinity ittid sucfe afe fe ^ % episctypali or archMi&coft&H jutisd'kitibn , or any doctor of l&Ws in hfeii ^ ordters , as aforesaid : aM th # t all tt * 6
now have them , except ^ refdite & % cepted , b £ strictly c < 5 trrtnattd ^ i t 6 bring in the said books , ift # ie pfli * versities to the Vice-chai ] C 6 ll < 3 rs ^ A ^ S out of the Universities to the Bis % & |^ who shall return them to such whtttii
they dare trust with the reading of the said books , and shall c&taftfe Utffe rest to be burn £ d . And We ^ fthW enjoyne , that diligent inquiry i& tft&te after all such that shall m ^ irifeiitife SflflS defend the aforesaid Sociriiani ? fifttoe , &ii €
when any such shall be ddtfeeted , fiiift they be cdtnplainied of to thfe - ^^ tfli Bishops respectively , whoai * £ i ^ ttiWrt by this synode to rejp ^ esae thStk . frfclii any such propagatioti 6 f the afttrcggid wicked and detestable opifcionfe . "
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nes « s , has been perpetually VKfepilt&a throughout tiie woMd , sftrfd mtm % fe left at lirtft to < he impVe ^ BiOifs made upon every man ** * belief and conscience , either by natural or Supernatural arguments aridmg&iS ; Whiclt impresmns imn mzy'ttitgtittic ' «* & * ftmie , wat hbrtwn uxth ftmt q ^ < tteiter * ft
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GLEA * NlKGS ; Crft , SfeLt ^^ fd ^ fe 'AH » itfcFLEctobWs i * rAtyfe rk -a cWtfi&te OF GlE ^ f&AL ^ R . ' EAtltN < 3 S .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1815, page 365, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1761/page/37/
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