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42. Canon seventy fourth brings all Ministers apparel under Church Laws, for the Shape.

43. Canon seventy sixth Excommunicateth all that voluntarily relinquish their Ministry, and use themselves as a Lay-men. And man having free will, that is done voluntarily, which is done in Obedience to mens command: And yet we are ruined in the World, if we will not leave our Ministry, at their Command.

44. It's tedious to go over all the rest: I end at the end of them. Canon 139. excommunicateth all them that affirm that the Synod is not the true Church of England by Representation: that is, 1. All that take it for the Church real and not Representative, lest they make the diffused Church (People and all) to be Chief Church-governors, while Convocations govern but as their Representatives. 2. All that say, that it is only the Bishops and not the Presbyters in Convocation that are the Governing Canon-making Church. 3. All that say that the Clergy represent not King, Nobles, Parliaments, Laity, and that these are true parts of the Church of England. All these are ipso facto excommunicate.

44. It's tedious to go over all the rest: I end at the end of them. Canon 139. excommunicateth all them that affirm that the Synod is not the true Church of England by Representation: that is, 1. All that take it for the Church real and not Representative, lest they make the diffused Church (People and all) to be Chief Church-governours, while Convocations govern but as their Representatives. 2. All that say, that it is only the Bishops and not the Presbyters in Convocation that are the Governing Canon-making Church. 3. All that say that the Clergy represent not King, Nobles, Parliaments, Laiety, and that these are true parts of the Church of England. All these are ipso facto excommunicate.