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ARTICLE XXX.

OF BOTH KINDS.

The cup of the Lord is not to be denied to the lay people: for both the parts of the Lord's sacrament, by Christ's ordinance and commandment, ought to be ministered to all Christian men alike.

1 Matt. xxvi, 27; Mark xiv. 23; 1 Cor. xi. 26.

ARTICLE XXXI.

OF THE ONE OBLATION OF CHRIST FINISHED UPON THE CROSS.

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1 The offering of Christ once made, is that perfect redemption, propitiation, and satisfaction for all the sins of the whole world, both original and actual: 3 And there is none other satisfaction for sin but that alone. Wherefore the sacrifices of masses, in the which it was commonly said that the priest did offer Christ for the quick and the dead, to have remission of pain or guilt, were blasphemous fables, and dangerous deceits.

Heb. ix. 26.

2 John i. 29; 1 John ii. 1, 2.
Verse 10. 4 Heb. IX. 25, 26.

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ARTICLE XXXII.

OF THE MARRIAGE OF PRIESTS.

1 Bishops, priests, and deacons, are not commanded

1 Heb. xiii. 4; 1 Cor. ix. 5; 1 Tim. iii. 2; Verse 10, 11, 12.

by God's law, either to vow the estate of single life, or to abstain from marriage: Therefore it is lawful for them, as for all other Christian men, to marry at their own discretion, as they shall judge the same to serve better to godliness.

ARTICLE XXXIII.

OF EXCOMMUNICATE PERSONS, HOW THEY ARE TO BE AVOIDED.

1 That person which, by open denunciation of the church, is rightly cut off from the unity of the church, and excommunicated, 2 ought to be taken of the whole multitude of the faithful, as an heathen and publican, 3 until he be openly reconciled by penance, and received into the church by a judge that hath authority thereunto.

11 Cor. v. 4, 5.2 Matt. xvii. 17; 1 Cor. v. 11; 2 John 10. 32 Cor. ii. 6, 7.

ARTICLE XXXIV.

OF THE TRADITIONS OF THE CHURCH.

1It is not necessary that traditions and ceremonies be in all places one, or utterly like; for at all times they have been divers, and may be changed according to the diversities of countries, times, men's manners, and so that nothing be ordained against God's Word. Whosoever, through his private judgment, willingly and purposely, doth openly break the traditions and cere

1 Heb. xiii. 17,

monies of the church, which be not repugnant to the Word of God, and be ordained and approved of common authority, 2 ought to be rebuked openly, (that other may fear to do the like) 3 as he that offendeth against the common order of the church, and hurteth the authority of the magistrate, 5 and woundeth the consciences of weak brethren.

6 Every particular and national church hath authority to ordain, change, and abolish ceremonies or rights of the church, ordained only by man's authority, so that all things be done to edifying.

21 Tim. v. 20; 1 Thess. v. 14. 3 Col. ii. 5; 2 Thess. iii. 6. 41 Peter ii. 13. 51 Cor. viii. 12. 6 Rom. xiv. 19.

ARTICLE XXXV.

OF HOMILIES.

The second book of homilies, the several titles whereof we have joined under this article, doth contain a godly and wholesome doctrine, and necessary for these times, as doth the former book of homilies, which were set forth in the time of Edward the Sixth; and therefore we judge them to be read in churches by the ministers, diligently and distinctly, that they may be understood of the people.

OF THE NAMES OF THE HOMILIES.

1. Of the right Use of the Church.

2. Against Peril of Idolatry.

3. Of repairing and keeping clean of churches

4. Of Good Works, first of Fasting.

5. Against Gluttony and Drunkenness. 6. Against Excess of Apparel.

7. Of Prayer.

8. Of the Place and Time of Prayer.

9. That Common Prayer and Sacraments ought to be ministered in a known tongue.

10. Of the reverent Estimation of God's Word. 11. Of Alms-doing.

12. Of the Nativity of Christ.

13. Of the Passion of Christ.

14. Of the Resurrection of Christ.

15. Of the worthy receiving of the Sacrament of the

Body and Blood of Christ.

16. Of the Gifts of the Holy Ghost.

17. For the Rogation Days.

18. Of the State of Matrimony.

19. Of Repentance.

20. Against Idleness.

21. Against Rebellion.

ARTICLE XXXVI.

OF CONSECRATION OF BISHOPS AND MINISTERS.

The book of consecration of archbishops and bishops, and ordering of priests and deacons, lately set forth in the time of Edward the Sixth, and confirmed at the same time by authority of parliament, doth contain all things necessary to such consecration and ordering, neither hath it any thing that of itself is superstitious and ungodly. And therefore whosoever are consecrated

or ordered according to the rites of that book, since the second year of the forenamed king Edward, unto this time, or hereafter, shall be consecrated or ordered according to the same rites, we decree all such to be rightly, orderly, and lawfully consecrated and ordered.

ARTICLE XXXVII.

OF THE CIVIL MAGISTRATES.

'The king's majesty hath the chief power in this realm of England, and other his dominions, unto whom the chief government of all the estates of this realm, whether they be ecclesiastical or civil, in all causes doth appertain, and is not, nor ought to be, subject to any foreign jurisdiction.

Whereas we attribute to the king's majesty the chief government, by which titles we understand the minds of some slanderous folks to be offended. 2 We give not to our princes the ministering either of God's Word, or of the sacraments, the which thing the injunctions also lately set forth by Elizabeth, our queen, do most plainly testify; but that only prerogative which we see to have been given always to all godly princes in holy Scriptures by God himself; that is, that they should. rule all estates and degrees committed to their charge by God, whether they be ecclesiastical or temporal, and restrain with the civil sword, the stubborn and evildoers.

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The bishop of Rome hath no jurisdiction in this realm of England.

11 Peter ii. 13. 22 Chron. xxvi. 18, 19, 20. $2 Kings xii. 7; 2 Chron. xxxi. 2; xxx. 1; 2 Kings xxiii, 21; 1 Chron, xvi, 4; Is. xlix, 23; Rom, xiii. 1.

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