More Differences of the Articles passed in 1552, from those after- The Articles wards agreed in both Houses of Convocation in 1562, with of 1552 alrespect to the additions or omissions. [The numbers refer to the articles made in the reign of king Edward VI.] tered by additions or omissions by the Convocation in 1562. Sparrow's Collections, V. The Doctrine of the Holy Scripture is sufficient to Salvation. &c. So that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be omitted. proved thereby, although sometimes it may be admitted by God's faithful people as pious, and conducing unto order and decency. -[These words in a different character are left out.] In the name of the Holy Scripture we do understand those Added. canonical books of the Old and New Testament, of whose authority was never any doubt in the Church: that is to say, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1st of Samuel, 2nd of Samuel, the 1st book of Kings, the 2nd book of Kings, the 1st book of Chronicles, the 2nd book of Chronicles, the 1st book of Esdras, the 2nd book of Esdras, the book of Esther, the book of Job, the Psalms, the Proverbs, Ecclesiastes or Preacher, Canticles or Songs of Solomon, four Prophets the greater, twelve Prophets the less. And the other books (as Hierome saith) the Church doth read for example of life and instruction of manners, but yet doth not apply them to establish any doctrine. Such are these following the 3rd of Esdras, the 4th of Esdras, the book of Tobias, the book of Judith, the rest of the book of Esther, the book of Wisdom, Jesus the son of Sirach, Baruch the Prophet, the Song of the Three Children, the Story of Susanna, of Bell and the Dragon, the Prayer of Manasses, the 1st book of Maccabees, the 2nd book of Maccabees. All the books of the New Testament, as they are commonly received, we do receive and account them canonical. VI. The Old Testament is not to be refused. Although the Law given from God by Moses, as touching Added. ceremonies and rites, do not bind Christian men, nor the civil precepts thereof ought of necessity to be received in any commonwealth; yet notwithstanding no Christian man whatsoever is free from the obedience of the commandments which are called moral. VII. The three Creeds. VIII. Of Original Sin. Omitted. Added. And as at this day is affirmed by some Anabaptists. IX. Of Free-will. The condition of man, after the fall of Adam, is such, that he cannot turn and prepare himself by his own natural strength and good works to faith and calling upon God. Added. Added. Added. Altered and added. Added. X. Of Grace. XI. Of the Justification of Man. We are accounted righteous before God only for the merits of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, by faith, and not for our own works and deserving. Of Good Works. Albeit that good works, which are the fruits of faith, and follow after justification, cannot put away our sins, and endure the severity of God's judgment, yet are they pleasing and acceptable to God in Christ, and do spring out necessarily of a true and lively faith, insomuch that by them a lively faith may be as evidently known as a tree discerned by the fruit. XXI. Of the Authority of the Church. The Church has power to decree rites or ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith. XXV. All things to be done in the Congregation in such a Tongue as is understood by the People. It is a thing plainly repugnant to the Word of God and the custom of the primitive Church, to have public prayers in the Church, or to minister the sacrament, in a tongue not understanded by the people. XXVI. Of the Sacraments. There are two sacraments ordained of Christ our Lord in the Gospel that is to say, baptism, and the supper of the Lord. Those five, commonly called sacraments,-that is to say, con firmation, penance, orders, matrimony, and extreme unction, -are not to be accounted for sacraments of the Gospel, being such as are grown partly of the corrupt following of the apostles, partly are states of life allowed in the Scriptures; but yet have not like nature of sacraments with baptism and the Lord's supper, for that they have not any visible sign or ceremony ordained of God.--And in such only as worthily receive them, Altered and they have an wholesome effect or operation. XXVIII. Of Baptism. omitted. The baptism of young children is in any wise to be retained Added. in the Church, "as most agreeable to the institution of Christ." &c. XXIX. Of the Lord's Supper. Transubstantiation overthrows the nature of the sacrament, The body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten in the supper Added. only after a heavenly and spiritual manner; and the mean whereby the body of Christ is received and eaten in the supper is faith. "Forasmuch as the truth of man's nature requires," &c., to the end of the paragraph, is left out in the 28th article of 1562. The two following articles are not amongst those published in the reign of king Edward, but make the 29th and 30th, afterwards passed in the year 1562. The title of the 29th stands thus: : Of the Wicked which eat not the Body of Christ in the Lord's Supper. "The wicked, and such as be void of a lively faith, although they do carnally and visibly press with their teeth (as St. Augustine saith) the sacrament of the body and blood of Christ, yet in no wise are they partakers of Christ; but rather, to their condemnation, do eat and drink the sign or sacrament of so great a thing." The title of the 30th is, Of both Kinds. "The cup of the Lord is not to be denied to lay-people for 80. Added. Altered and added. Added. both parts of the Lord's sacrament, by Christ's ordinance and commandment, ought to be ministered to all Christian men alike." XXXIII. Of the Tradition of the Church. Every particular or national Church has authority to ordain, change, and abolish ceremonies or rites of the Church ordained only by men's authority, so that all things be done to edifying. XXXV. Of the Book of Prayers and Ceremonies of the Church of England. The book of consecration of archbishops and bishops, and ordering priests and deacons, lately set forth in the time of king Edward VI., 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 afore-named 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. XXXVI. Of the Civil Magistrate. The queen's majesty hath the chief power in this realm of England and other her dominions, unto whom the chief government of all estates of this realm, whether they be ecclesiastical, or civil, in all causes, does appertain; and is not, nor ought to be, subject to any foreign jurisdiction. Where we attribute to the queen's majesty the chief government, by which titles we understand the minds of some dangerous folks to be offended,-we give not our princes the ministering either of God's Word or the sacraments; the which thing the Injunctions, also 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 evil doers. The 39th, 40th, 41st, and 42nd articles are all omitted in the articles passed in convocation A.D. 1562. LXVII. An Account of some of the Alienations of Church Lands in the reign of King Henry VIII. and King Edward VI. not mentioned in the History. Alienations of Church Lands from the See of Canterbury in the reign of King Henry VIII. 29 Hen. 8. Memorials from Phil p. 281, 282. (1) The manor and palace of Maidstone, which, as Leland December 1. observes, was formerly a castle; (2) the manor and palace of Strype's Charing; (3) Wingham; (4) Wingham Barton, in the parish of Archbp. of Alresford, demised at the king's instance to sir Edward Cranmer, Bainton for ninety-nine years; (5) Wrotham; (6) Saltwood, pot and which was formerly a castle,-it was called an honour, and had Kilbern, a great many manors held of it by knight-service; (7) Tenham; (8) Bexley; (9) Aldington, where the archbishop had a seat, with a park and chace belonging to it; (10) the noble manor and palace of Otford, where Warham expended more than thirty thousand pounds in buildings; (11) Knoll, near Sevenock, a seat not much inferior to that last mentioned; to which we may add, the manors of Cliff and Malinden, Pynner, Heyes, Harrow, Mortlake, &c. These manors, excepting Wingham Barton, were all conveyed to the king, for which the archbishop had a very slender consideration in exchange. sub in the His Reformation, p. 100. Alienations of Church Lands in the reign of King Edward VI. The learned Harmer, speaking of Vesey, bishop of Exeter, Harmer's observes, that he alienated no possessions of his see but upon some Errors Specimen of express command of the king, directed unto him under the and Defects privy-seal in favour of certain noblemen and courtiers. All tory of the the bishops, as this author continues, at this time were jected to a like calamity. Even Cranmer was forced to part with the better half of the possessions of his see: and Ridley, soon after his entry into London, was forced to give away four of the best manors of his see in one day. These two were the greatest favourites amongst all the bishops of that reign. Others were yet more severely dealt with. The common pretence was to exchange some lands of their bishoprics with |