Convocation: a letter to A. Campbell, in answer to his letter |
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Page 2 - Provided alway, that no canons, constitutions, or ordinances shall be made or put in execution within this realm by authority of the convocation of the clergy, which shall be contrariant or repugnant to the King's prerogative royal, or the customs, laws, or statutes of this realm, anything contained in this act to the contrary hereof notwithstanding.
Page 7 - And he released unto them him that for sedition and murder was cast into prison, whom they had desired; but he delivered Jesus to their will.
Page 3 - Whosoever shall hereafter affirm, that any of the nine and thirty articles agreed upon by the archbishops and bishops of both provinces, and the whole clergy, in the convocation holden at London, in the year of Our Lord God one thousand five hundred sixty-two, for the avoiding of diversities of opinions, and for the establishing of consent touching true religion...
Page 7 - And he said unto them the third time, Why, what evil hath he done ? I have found no cause of death in him : I will therefore chastise him, and let him go. 23 And they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified. And the voices of them and of the chief priests prevailed.
Page 2 - Where the king's humble and obedient subjects, the clergy of this realm of England, have not only knowledged according to the truth, that the convocation of the same clergy is, always hath been, and ought to be assembled only by the king's writ, but also submitting themselves to the king's majesty...
Page 1 - The argumentation is based on references to national history as recorded by "divers sundry old authentic histories and chronicles" which "manifestly declared and expressed that this realm of England is an empire . . . governed by one supreme head and king...
Page 7 - Why, what evil hath he done ? I have found no cause of death in him: I will therefore chastise him, and let him go. And they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified : and the voices of them and of the chief priests prevailed. And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required.
Page 2 - ... enact, promulge or execute any new canons, constitutions, ordinances provincial or other, or by whatsoever other name they shall be called in the convocation, unless the king's most royal assent and licence may to them be had, to make, promulge and execute the same; and that his majesty do give his most royal assent and authority in that behalf...
Page 2 - Westminster in the five-and-twentieth year of the reign of King Henry the Eighth, reciting, that whereas the King's humble and obedient subjects the Clergy of the Realm of England had not only acknowledged, according to the truth, that the Convocation of the same Clergy were always, had been, and ought to be, assembled only by the King's writ, but also submitting themselves unto the King's Majesty, had promised, in verbo...
Page 4 - the Apostles and elders came together to consider of this matter." And (ver. 22) "it pleased the Apostles and elders, with the whole Church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch, with Paul and Barnabas.