Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Notes to the reader
- Introduction: canon law and the Anglican church
- 1 Texts with commentary
- 2 Supplementary texts
- 1 The articles on doctrine, 1555*
- 2 A paper for the convocation of 1563
- 3 General notes of matters to be moved by the clergy, 1563
- 4 Articles for government, 1563
- 5 The assertions of Ralph Lever, touching the canon law, 1563
- 6 Articles from the lower house of convocation, 1580
- 7 Archbishop Whitgift's articles, 1583
- 8 The parliamentary petition of 1584 with the archbishops' answers
- 9 Archbishop Whitgift's statutes for the ecclesiastical courts, 1587*
- 10 Additional articles concerning the ecclesiastical laws, 1591
- 11 Archbishop Whitgift's orders of 1593
- 12 The millenary petition, 1603
- 13 The reforms agreed at the Hampton Court conference, 1604
- 14 The five articles of Perth, 1618
- 15 Proposals for the reform of the canons of 1603, 1640
- 16 Constitutions and orders for the Church of Scotland, 1670
- 17 The injunctions of William III, 1695
- 18 The supplementary Irish canons of 1711
- 19 The draft canons of 1714
- 20 The Irish canons of 1871
- 3 Appendixes
- 4 Indexes of references
- 5 Thematic indexes
- 6 Bibliography
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
14 - The five articles of Perth, 1618
from 2 - Supplementary texts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 August 2018
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Notes to the reader
- Introduction: canon law and the Anglican church
- 1 Texts with commentary
- 2 Supplementary texts
- 1 The articles on doctrine, 1555*
- 2 A paper for the convocation of 1563
- 3 General notes of matters to be moved by the clergy, 1563
- 4 Articles for government, 1563
- 5 The assertions of Ralph Lever, touching the canon law, 1563
- 6 Articles from the lower house of convocation, 1580
- 7 Archbishop Whitgift's articles, 1583
- 8 The parliamentary petition of 1584 with the archbishops' answers
- 9 Archbishop Whitgift's statutes for the ecclesiastical courts, 1587*
- 10 Additional articles concerning the ecclesiastical laws, 1591
- 11 Archbishop Whitgift's orders of 1593
- 12 The millenary petition, 1603
- 13 The reforms agreed at the Hampton Court conference, 1604
- 14 The five articles of Perth, 1618
- 15 Proposals for the reform of the canons of 1603, 1640
- 16 Constitutions and orders for the Church of Scotland, 1670
- 17 The injunctions of William III, 1695
- 18 The supplementary Irish canons of 1711
- 19 The draft canons of 1714
- 20 The Irish canons of 1871
- 3 Appendixes
- 4 Indexes of references
- 5 Thematic indexes
- 6 Bibliography
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
Summary
1. Seeing we are commanded by God himself, that when we come to worship Him, we fall down and kneel before the Lord our Maker, and considering withal that there is no part of divine worship more heavenly and spiritual than is the holy receiving of the blessed body and blood of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, like as the most humble and reverent gesture of our body in our meditation and the lifting up of our hearts best becometh so divine and sacred an action; therefore, notwithstanding that our church hath used since the reformation of religion to celebrate the holy communion to the people sitting, by reason of the great abuse of kneeling used the idolatrous worship of the sacrament by the papists, yet seeing all memory of bypast superstitions is past, in reverence of God and in due regard of so divine a mystery, and in remembrance of so mystical an union as we are made partakers of, the assembly thinketh good, that the blessed sacrament be celebrated hereafter, meekly and reverently upon their knees.
2. If any good Christian visited with long sickness, and known to the pastor, by reason of his present infirmity, to be unable to resort to the church for receiving the holy communion, or being sick, shall declare to the pastor, upon his conscience, that he thinks his sickness to be deadly, and shall earnestly desire to receive the same in his house, the minister shall not deny him so great a comfort, lawful warning being given to him the night before, and that there be three or four of good religion and conversation, free of all lawful impediments, present with the sick person, to communicate with him, who must also provide a convenient place in his house, and all things necessary for the reverent administration thereof, according to the order prescribed in the church.
3. The minister shall often admonish the people that they defer not the baptizing of infants any longer than the next Lord's day after the child be born; unless upon a great and reasonable cause declared to the minister, and by him approved, the same be continued.
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- The Anglican Canons, 1529–1947 , pp. 823 - 824Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 1998