Ecclesiastical History of England, Volume 5—The Church of the RevolutionStoughton, John
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Ecclesiastical History of England, Volume 5—The Church of the Revolution
Stoughton, John
Great Britain -- Church history
_I, A. B., do sincerely promise, and solemnly declare, before God and
the world, that I will be true and faithful to King William and Queen
Mary; and I do solemnly profess and declare that I do from my heart
abhor, detest, and renounce, as impious and heretical, that damnable
Doctrine and Position, That Princes excommunicated, or deprived by the
Pope, or any authority of the See of Rome, may be deposed or murthered
by their subjects, or any other whatsoever. And I do declare, that no
foreign Prince, Person, Prelate, State, or Potentate, hath, or ought to
have, any Power, Jurisdiction, Superiority, Pre-eminence, or Authority,
Ecclesiastical or Spiritual, within this Realm._
And shall subscribe a Profession of their Christian Belief in these
words:
[Sidenote: Profession.]
_I, A. B., profess Faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ His
eternal Son, the true God, and in the Holy Spirit, one God blessed for
evermore; and do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New
Testament to be given by Divine Inspiration._
Which Declaration and Subscription shall be made and entered of Record
at the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the County, City, or
Place, where every such person shall then reside. And every such person
that shall make and subscribe the two Declarations and Profession
aforesaid, being thereunto required, shall be exempted from all the
pains and penalties of all and every the afore-mentioned Statutes
made against Popish Recusants, or Protestant Nonconformists; and also
from the penalties of an Act made in the 5^{th} year of the reign of
the late Queen Elizabeth, entituled, [Sidenote: 5 Eliz., cap. 1.] _An
Act for the Assurance of the Queen’s Royal Power over all Estates and
Subjects within her Dominions_, for or by reason of such persons not
taking, or refusing to take, the Oath mentioned in the said Act; and
also from the penalties of an Act made in the 13^{th} and 14^{th}
years of the reign of King Charles II., entituled, [Sidenote: 13 and
14 Car. II., cap. 1.] _An Act for preventing mischiefs that may arise
by certain persons called Quakers refusing to take lawful oaths_,
and enjoy all the other Benefits, Privileges, and Advantages, under
the like Limitations, Provisions, and Conditions, which any other
Dissenters should or ought to enjoy by virtue of this Act.
[Sidenote: How purged after Refusal of the Oaths.]
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