A55307:185
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.
And be it further Enacted By the Authority aforesaid, that all and every Person and Persons, (that being lawfully required) shall take the said Oaths, and make and subscribe the Declaration aforesaid, shall not be liable to any Pains, Penalties or Forfeitures mentioned in an Act, made the Thirty Fifth Year of the late Queen Elizabeth, Entitled, An Act to retain the Queens Majesties Subjects in their due Obedience; Nor in an Act made in the Twenty Second Year of His Majesty that now is, Entitled, An Act to prevent and suppress Seditions Conventicles; Nor shall any of the said Persons be Prosecuted in any Ecclesiastical COURT, for or by reason of their Non-conforming to the CHURCH of ENGLAND.
And be it further Enacted By the Authority aforesaid, that all and every Person and Persons, (that being lawfully required) shall take the said Oaths, and make and subscribe the Declaration aforesaid, shall not be liable to any Pains, Penalties or Forfeitures mentioned in an Act, made the Thirty Fifth Year of the late Queen Elizabeth, Entituled, An Act to retain the Queens Majesties Subjects in their due Obedience; Nor in an Act made in the Twenty Second Year of His Majesty that now is, Entituled, An Act to prevent and suppress Seditions Conventicles; Nor shall any of the said Persons be Prosecuted in any Ecclesiastical COURT, for or by reason of their Non-conforming to the CHURCH of ENGLAND.
The Bill proceeds next to a Proviso, That the Doors be not Locked, Barred, or Bolted, where there are Meetings: Then to the Relieving Constables, Church-Wardens, and the like Officers, that Scruple the Oaths that be long to those Offices, by admitting a Deputy: Then to the Repealing the Oxford Act (or Releasing the Penalty) to all such as shall take the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance, and Subscribe to the Declaration aforesaid, and the Doctrinal Articles of the Church of England, with the exceptions of the former Bill: Upon the same Terms, Liberty is granted to any Person, to teach a School, or be a Tutor in a Private Family. It Proceeds to giving ⟨p. 128⟩Ease upon the same, to Dissenting Protestants, who Scruple the Baptizing Infants: Then to the Easing other Persons, who scruple Taking all Oaths; whom it shall suffice to say, That J. A. B. Acknowledge, Profess, and Testify, instead of J. A. B. Swear That, &c. According to the Words of the Oaths of Allegiance, and Supremacy. Then there is an Excellent Proviso, That no Persons who do not go upon Sundays, to some Congregation of Religious Worship, allowed by this Act, shall have any benefit at all by it.