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The records of this Convocation are completely lost . Its proceedings terminated with a resolution to print the Articles , both in Latin and
English , which was done immediately , or at least in the course of the year . The Latin edition , ( there seems to have been but one , ) printed by Day , is without the clause .
There are four English editions of the Articles , printed in this year , by Jugge and Cawood , without the clause . There are also four editions , by the same printers , of the same date , with the clause .
An edition , without date , but supposed to be only a year or two less ancient , printed by Jugge only , is without the clause . In one , and only one , of the English editions of 1571 , there is a marginal reference to a passage in the
works of St . Augustin , in proof of the doctrine , for which his authority is cited in Article twenty-nine . This reference is in the Ben net College manuscript , subscribed by the bishops in that year , in the hand-writing of Parker . There was also preserved ,
amongst Mr . Petyt ' s papers in the Inner Temple Library , the rough draft of a letter in Parker ' s hand , without address , and supposed to be intended for Lord Burleigh , concerning the propriety of this appeal to the authority of St * . Augustin , from which it appears that the applicability of
the place cited , had been disputed . At this time the Articles were passing through the press ; the citation from Augustin was withdrawn ; but as the only edition , most probably therefore the first , which has the citation , also has the controverted clause , these facts demonstaate that , whether it
was there rightfully or wrongfully , Parker was privy to its insertion . The Puritans were very powerful in the House of Commons at this time ; and Laud has directly and forcibly charged them with causing the fraudulent omission of the clause .
To this accusation two replies may be made . First , The bishops , and they alone , seem to have had the controul of the publication of the Articles , which were actually printed before they came under the consideration of Parliament , and the printed book relerred to in the Act . And , Secondly ,
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It could scarcely be to them a matter of sufficient moment to undertake such a measure , as this is one of the articles , the subscription of which it seems that Legislature did not expect would be enforced , and which in fact they did not ratify at all . The statute of IS Eliz . c . \ % enjoins
subscription to all the Articles of religion which only concern the confession of the true Christian faith , and the doctrine of the Sacraments . The articles of discipline , to which , I presume , this must belong , were purposely omitted , as appears by the following well-known anecdote : " When some
members of the Hopse of Commons , and among the rest Sir Peter Wentworth , were sent to the Archbishop of Canterbury ( Parker ) for the Articles which then passed the House ; the Archbishop took that occasion to expostulate w ith them , Why they did put out of the book the Articles
for the Homilies , consecrating of Bishops , and such like ? ( Meaning , by the limiting clause , confining * subscription to articles only of a certain tenor . ) ' Surely , Sir , ' said Wentwortb , * because we were so occupied in other matters , that we had no time
to examine them , how they agreed with the word of God . ' * WhatP said the Archbishop , c surely you mistook the matter ; you will refer yourselves wholly to us therein . Sir Peter replied , 'No , by the faith I bear to God ,
we will pass nothing before we understand what it is ; for that were but to make you popes ; make you popes who list , for we will make you none . ' " The bishops , however , soon managed to make the clergy subscribe the whole . But the circumstance serves
to render it improbable that the fraud rested there , and also to account for the various readings not exciting more contemporary discussion . In 1604 , the whole Convocation
again solemnly subscribed the Articles . They used aa English printed co Py > by Christopher Barker , 1593 , with the controverted
clause-In 16 S 3 the authenticity of tins clause was publicly debated in the divinity schools at Oxford , upon occasion of Heylirfs disputing for his Doctor ' s degree . Prideaux , the professor , read the Latin article out of the Corpus Confessionum , published at Geneva , 1612 , without the clause ,
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4 G 4 The Nonconfoivnist . No . XIII .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1819, page 464, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1775/page/4/
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