your own reputation, by defaming and crying down your adverfary; do your Reverence, mun gea, or the like of that.

Pr. Every Society have their oppofites; fo, no doubt, ours; for it would betray the height of ignorance, to perfuade ourselves, that we had pretenfions to impeccability, or to demur to the decrees of the Church. I acknowledge, we have Judas's amongst us, fo had the Church from its infancy, exclaimers, which multiply in our times, and will to the end. I compare Societies to the human carcafe, which fhould be regulated by a proper fubordination throughout the whole. The Pope, who we acknowledge to be the Vicar of Chrift, feated in the Chair of Peter, is the Head, and declaimers, of what kind foever, the Anus, from whence the excrement is difcharged; you cannot expect therefore, that the Society of Jefus Thould be an exception to this general rule; fo that if at any time you fhould hear, or other ways know, that any member of our late body fhould detract or vilify Pope Clement of diffolving our Society, be fo candid as generously to place him in his proper birth, that is, the Common-fewer, or paffage for evacuating the excremental particles.

Luth. By your words, as the faying is, or the like of that, do ye mungea, the members of the late Body, that fpeak feelingly against your adversary, Clement, or any other, or the like of that, do ye mungea, either by words or writings, are and ought to be confidered the Anus, void

ing the neceffary excrements, and therefore not to be credited by men of reason or good breeding; be it known to you who defpife this part of your Society, that they fhall enjoy every advantage in the English Conftitution, by complying with the laws; but, as for your parts, the Penal Aas fhall be let loofe, like ravenous dogs, to tear you to fhatters at Tyburn, as many of your brood, with other Papifts. Read these two Aas, you nin-com-poop.

An Act for the Uniformity of Common Prayer, and Service in the Church, and Adminiftration of the Sacraments, Primo Elizabethæ,

HERE at the death of our late Sovereign

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Lord King Edward the Sixth, there remained one uniform order of Common Service, and Prayer, and of the Adminiftration of Sacraments, Rites and Ceremonies in the Church of England, which was fet forth in one Book intituled, "The Book of Common Prayer, and Ad"ministration of Sacraments, and other Rites "and Ceremonies in the Church of England," Authorised by Act of Parliament holden in the fifth and fixth years of our faid late Sovereign Lord King Edward the Sixth, intituled,

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"Act for the Uniformity of Common Prayer "and Adminiftration of the Sacraments," The which was repealed and taken away by A&t of Parliament, in the first year of the Reign of our late Sovereign Lady Queen Mary, to the great decay

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decay of to the great decay of the due honour of God, and difcomfort to the profeffors of the truth of Chrift's Religion:

Be it therefore enacted by the Authority of this prefent Parliament, That the faid Statute of Repeal, and every thing therein contained, only concerning the faid Book, and the Service, Adminiftration of Sacraments, Rites, and Ceremonies, contained or appointed in, or by the faid Book, fhall be void and of none effect, from and after the Feast of the Nativity of Saint John Baptift next coming: And that the faid Book, with the order of Service, and of the Adminiftration of Sacraments, Rites and Ceremonies, with the alterations and additions, therein added and appointed by the Statute, fhall ftand, and be, from, and after the faid Feaft of the Nativity of Saint John Baptift, in full force and effect, according to the tenor and effect of this Statute: Any thing in the aforefaid Statute of Repeal to the contrary notwithstanding.

Ánd further be it enacted by the Queen's Highnefs, with the affent of the Lords and Commons in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That all, and fingular Minifters in any Cathedral, or Parish-Church, or other place, within this Realm of England, Wales, and the Marches of the fame, or other the Queen's Dominions, fhall from and after the Feast of the Nativity of Saint John Baptift next coming, be bounden to lay and use the Matters, Even-Song, Celebration of the Lord's Supper,

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and Adminiftration of each of the Sacraments, and all other Common and open Prayer, in such order and form' as is mentioned in the faid Book, fo authorized by Parliament in the faid fifth and fixth year of the Reign of King Edward the Sixth; with one alteration, or addition of certain Leffons to be used on every Sunday in the year, and the form of the Litany altered, and corrected, and two fentences only added in the delivery of the Sacrament to the Communicants, and none other, or otherwife: And, That if any manner of Parfon, Vicar, or other whatsoever Minifter, that ought or fhould fing, or fay Common Prayer mentioned in the faid Book, or minifter the Sacraments, from, and after the Feaft of the Nativity of Saint John Baptift next coming, refufe to use the faid Common Prayers, or to mi nifter the Sacraments in fuch Cathedral or ParishChurch, or other place, as he fhould use to minifter the fame, in fuch order and form, as they be mentioned, and fet forth in the faid Book, or fhall wilfully, or obftinately standing in the fame, ufe any other Rite, Ceremony, Order, Form, or Manner of celebrating of the Lord's Supper openly, or privily, or Mattins, Evén-Song, Adminiftration of the Sacraments, or other open Prayers, than is mentioned, and fet forth in the faid Book, "Open Prayer in, and through this A&t, is meant that Prayer, which is for others to come unto or hear, either in Common "Churches, or private Chapels, or Oratories, commonly called the Service of the Church"

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or fhall preach, declare, or fpeak any thing in' derogation, or depraving of the faid Book, or any thing therein contained, or of any part thereof, and fhall be thereof lawfully convicted, according to the laws of this Realm, by verdict of twelve men, or by his own confeffion, or by the notorious evidence of the fact; he shall lofe, and forfeit to the Queen's Highness, Her Heirs, and Succeffors, for his first Offence, the profit of all his Spiritual Benefices, or Promotions, coming, or arifing in one whole year next after this conviction: And also that the perfon fo convicted fhall for the fame Offence fuffer Imprisonment by the space of fix Months, without Bail, or Mainprize: And if any fuch perfon, once convict of any offence concerning the premises, shall after his first conviction, eftfoons offend, and be thereof in form aforefaid lawfully convi&; That then the fame person fhall for his fecond Offence fuffer Imprisonment by the space of one whole year, and alfo fhall therefore be deprived ipfo fallo of all his Spiritual Promotions; and, That it fhall be lawful to all Patrons, or Donors of all and fingular the fame Spiritual Promotions, or of any of them, to prefent, or collate to the fame, as though the perfon and perfons fo offending were dead: And, That if any fuch person or perfons, after he fhall be twice convicted in form aforefaid, fhall offend against any of the Premifes the third time, and shall be thereof, in form aforefaid, lawfully convicted: That then the perfon fo effending, and convicted the third time, he fhall

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