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APPENDIX.
Numb.IX
bring him to the
peofe on
of
feriaus Repentance,
be
fhall
declare
/bat
be
judgetb
him
a
Perlon unmeet
for
Church Communion
till
be
Repent;
and
fhall
Wither)] forbear to give
him theSacrament:
But
when he profeffeth
ferions
Repentance,
!hall
receive him.
But
if
after
filch oft Profe{
&ons
he continue in fach
heinous Sin,
he
!hall
not again
receive him,
till
aîtual Amendment
for
a fuflcient time to make
valid his
Pro
fefiion.
VI. Ordination
to
the
Prielhood
fhall
be
a valid Licenfe
to Preach
:
And
every
jolt Incumbent
being
the Pallor,
Overfeer,
or
Re&or
of
his
Parith Church,
(hall
as
filch have
power to Preach to them without any further
Licenfe
,
and
to
judge
according
to
God's Word,
to whom
and
how to perform the proper Work
of
his Office ;
on what Text
and
Subje&
to Preach , in what Words
and
Order
to
Teach
and Pray. But
if
Canons
alfo be
made
a
Rule
, they
(hall
not
oblige
him againft
the
Word
of
God
:
And
if
for Uniformity
,
or
force Mens difabili-
ty,
he
be
tyed to
ufe
the
Words
of
prefcribed Forms, called a
Liturgy,
he
fhall
not
be
fo
fervilely tyed
to
them,
as
to
be punifhable for every Omiffion
of
any
Coned,
Sentence or Word, while at
leaf
the
greateft
part of the
Service
appoint-
ed for
the
Day
is
there
read
;
and the Subftance and Neceffary Parts of the Offi-
ces
be
there performed
;
no,
though he omit the
Croft in Baptifm, and the Sur-
plice, and deny
not Communion to
thofe
that
dare
not
receive
is
kneeling.
And
if
any worthy
Minder
fcruple
to
ufe
the Liturgy
,
but will
be
prefent
,
and
not
Preach
againft
it,
he
fhall be
capable
notwithlandingof
preaching
as
a
Lelturer or
Aifftant,
if
the Incumbent Pallor do Confent.
VII. No
Oath,
Subfcription, Covenant, Profeihion
or
Promife
(hall
be made
Neceffary
to
Minifters or Candidates for
the Mimicry,
befides
the
Oath
of
Alle.
glance and Supremacy, and Subfcribing to the
Sacred Canonical Scriptures,
and
to the ancient
Creeds,
or at the
mot
to the
Articles
of the Church
(
excepting
to them that
fcruple
the
Twentieth, Thirty
fourth
and
Thirty
limb,
as
they
fpeak
only of Ceremonies, Traditions, and
Bithops),
and the
neceffary
Renunciation
of
Herefie,
Popery,
Rebellion
and
Ufurpation
:
and the Promife
of
Minifferial Fi-
delity according to the
Word
of
God
:
Or
at leaft none but what the Reformed
Churches
are
commonly agreed
in..
.
And
let none be capable
of
Benefices
and
Church
-
Dignities, or
Government
in
the
Univerfities,
or FreeSchools,
who
bath not taken
the laid
Oaths,
Subfetiptions
and Renunciations.
VIII. Let
none have
any
Benefice
`with
Cure
of
Souls,
who is
not Ordained
to the
Sacred
Minilry
by filch Bifhops
or Pallors
as
the Law
than
thereto appoint
for the
time to
come:
But
thofe
that
already are otherwise Ordained by
other
Paflors,
fhall
not be
difabled
,
or required to be Ordained again. And let
no
Pallor,
by Patrons
or
others, be impofed on
any
Parilh Church, without
the
con
-
fent of
the
greater number of
the
BatedCommunicants. And
at
his
Entrance,
let
force
Neighbour
Minifteas
in
that
Congregation declare him their Pallor
as
fo
Confented to
and
Ordained, and
preach
to
them the Duty
of
the
Pallor
andFlock,
and
pray for
his
Sneeefs.
IX.
If.any
Pal
or be
accufed
of
Tyranny,
Injury
,
or Mahadminilration, he
(hall
be
refponfible to
the next
Synod
of
Neighbour Pallors
,
or to the Diocefan
and
his
Synod,
or to the
`Magiftrate
,
or
whomfoever
the.
Law
fhall
appoint;
and
if
guilty and unreformed
aher
a
firl
and fecond Admonition,
than be
panilh-
ed
as
hisOffence deferveth; but only in
a
Courfe
of
Juftice
according to the Laws,
and
not Arbitrarily
:
Nor
fo
as co
be forbidden his Minifterial Labours,
till
he
be
proved to do morehurt thán good. And
if
the
fuppofed
Injury to
any
who
is
denied Communion
be
doubtful,
or
but to
one, or
few, letnot, for
their
fake,
the
Church
be deprived of their Pallor
; but
let
the Perfon,
if
proved,
injbred, have
power to forbear
all his
Payments
and
Tythes, to the Paftor,and to Communicate
elfewhere.
X.
Becaufe
Patrons,
who
choofe Paltors for all the Churches, are
of
fo
different
Minds
and
Difpofitions,
that there
is
no certainty that none
(hall
be
by
them
Pre
-
fenced,
and
by Bifhops
Inftituted
and Indulged
, to
whom
godly Perfons may
jut
ly
fcruple to commit the
Paloral
Conduét of
their
Souls,
whofe
Safety
is
more to
them than
all
the
World:
And
becaufe
there may
be force things left
in the Li.
turgy,