A55307:184
The Samaritan showing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oil that must…The Samaritan shewing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oyl that must…
The Samaritan showing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oil that must heal the church together with the way or means to do it / by a country gentleman who goes to common-prayer and not to meetings.The Samaritan shewing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oyl that must heal the church together with the way or means to do it / by a country gentleman who goes to common-prayer and not to meetings.
London: printed for Tho. Simmons, 1682
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Forasmuch as Some Ease to Tender Consciences in the Exercise of Religion, may be an Effectual Means to Unite His Majesties Protestant Subjects in Interest and Affection, which is highly necessary in this time of Eminent Danger from the common Enemy the Papists: Be it Enacted By the Kings Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled, That neither the Statute made in the 23d. Year of the Reign of the Late Queen Elizabeth, Entitled An Act to retain the Queens Majesties Subjects in their due Obedience: Nor the Statute made in the Twenty Eighth Year of the said Queen, Entitled An Act for the more speedy and due Execution of certain Branches of the Statute made in the Twenty Third ⟨p. 126⟩Year of the Queens Majesties REIGN, (Videlicet) the aforesaid Act: Nor Statute made in the Third Year of the Reign of the Late King James, Entitled An Act to prevent and avoid dangers which may grow by Popish Recusants: Nor any other Law or Statute of this Realm, made against Popish Recusants, shall be construed to Extend to any Person or Persons Dissenting from the Church of England, that shall (being lawfully required) take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy (which Oath of Allegiance is contained in a Statute made in the Third Year of the Late King James), and make and Subscribe the Declaration mentioned in a Statute made in the Twentieth Year of His Majesties Reign that now is, Entitled An Act to prevent Papists from Sitting in either House of Parliament. And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That all and every Person and Persons already Convicted, or Prosecuted in Order to Conviction of Recusancy, by Indictment, Information, Action of Debt, or otherwise grounded upon the aforesaid Statutes, or any of them that shall take the said Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, and make and Subscribe the aforesaid Declaration, in the Court of Exchequer or Assizes, or General or Quarter Sessions, to be held for the County where such Person lives, and to be thence respectively certified into the Exchequer, shall be thenceforth discharged from all the Penalties, Seizures and Forfeitures incurred by force of any the aforesaid ⟨p. 127⟩Statutes, without any Composition, Fee, or further Charge whatsoever.
FOrasmuch as Some Ease to Tender Consciences in the Exercise of Religion, may be an Effectual Means to Unite His Majesties Protestant Subjects in Interest and Affection, which is highly necessary in this time of Eminent Danger from the common Enemy the Papists: Be it Enacted By the Kings Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled, That neither the Statute made in the 23d. Year of the Reign of the Late Queen Elizabeth, Entituled An Act to retain the Queens Majesties Subjects in their due Obedience: Nor the Statute made in the Twenty Eighth Year of the said Queen, Entituled An Act for the more speedy and due Execution of certain Branches of the Statute made in the Twenty Third