2. When the Latin and English are compared with each other. I. It is not necessary, that Traditions and Ceremonies be in all places one or utterly like. H. Traditions and Ceremonies at all times have been divers. III. Traditions and Ceremonies may be changed according to the diversity of countries, times, and men's manners, so that nothing be ordained against God's word. IV. Whosoever through his private judgment, willingly and purposely doth openly break the Traditions and Ceremonies of the Church, which be not repugnant to the Word of GOD, and be ordained and approved by common authority, ought to be rebuked openly, (that other may fear to do the like,) as he that offendeth against the common order of the Church, and hurteth the authority of the Magistrate, and woundeth the consciences of the weak brethren. V. Every particular and national Church hath authority to ordain, change, and abolish ceremonies or rites of the Church, ordained only by man's authority, so that all things be done to edifying. PROP. I. It is not necessary that Traditions and Ceremonies be in all places one and utterly like. 1. Divine Testimony. New Testament. 1 Cor. vii. 17, "But as God hath distributed to every man, as the LORD hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches."-See also Rom, xiv. 1-3, 17. Col. ii. 16, 17. 2. Human Testimony. Fathers. Gregory the Great, Respons. ad Interrog. Opp. tom. II. fol. 275, Antw. 1572, "Your fraternity know the custom of the Romish Church, wherein they remember that they have been brought up. But it is my decree, that what you have found in the Church of Rome, or the Gallican or any other that may more please Almighty PROP. II. Traditions and Ceremonies at all times have been divers. PROP. III. Traditions and Ceremonies may be changed according to the diversities of countries, times, and men's manners, so that nothing be ordained against GOD's Word. Human Testimony. Fathers. August. Epist. LIV. 6, vol. II. ad Januar. "Let therefore every one do what he finds in the Church to which he comes."-See also ad Marcellin. Epist. v. (alias cxxxviii. Opp. tom. II. p. 311). Basil. ad Amphiloch, can. 1. vol. iii. PROP. IV. Whosoever through his private judgement, willingly and purposely, doth openly break the Traditions and Ceremonies of the Church, which be not repugnant to the Word of GOD, and be ordained and approved by common authority, ought to be rebuked openly, (that others may fear to do the like,) as he that offendeth against the common order of the Church, and hurteth the authority of the Magistrate, and woundeth the consciences of the weak brethren. 1. Divine Testimony. New Testament. 1 Thess. v. 14, "Warn them that are xiv. 13, 19; xv. 2; 12, 13; xi. 2, 16, 18; xii. 25, 27; xiv. 40. Ephes. iv. 1-6. Phil. ii. 3. Col. ii. 5. 2 Thess. ii. 15, 16. 1 Tim. v. 20. 2. Human Testimony. A. Councils. 4 Council of Orleans, Hard. vol. п. p. 1441. B. Confessions. Bohemia, c. viii. burg, Art. xv. Gallican, xxvi. Augs PROP. V. Every particular and national Church hath authority to ordain, change, and abolish ceremonies or rites of the Church ordained only by man's authority, so that all things be done to edifying. 1. Divine Testimony. A. Old Testament. 2 Kings xviii. 4, " He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan." B. New Testament. 1 Cor. xiv. 40, "Let all things be done decently and in order."-See also.1 Cor. ix. 19-22; xiv. 19, 26. Phil. iii. 15, 16. 1 Pet. ii. 13. 2. Human Testimony. A. Fathers. Socrat. Hist. Eccles., "It were not possible to set down in writing all the ceremonies of the churches, which are throughout cities and countries. No religion doth keep everywhere the same ceremonies, although they admit one selfsame doctrine concerning them; for even they which have one and the selfsame faith, so disagree among themselves about ceremonies."-See also Euseb. Eccles. Hist. lib. v. c. xxiii. August. de Serm. Dom. lib. II. c. xii. Gennad. de Eccles. dogm. c. lxiii. August. ad Januar. Epist. CXVIII. cont. Gaudent. lib. I. c. xxxi. opp. tom. IX. Hieron. ad Lucin. Bot. Epist. XXVIII. Ignat. Ep. ad Philadelph. c. viii. Tertull. de Virgin. Veland. ad init. Cyprian ad Jubaian Epist. LXXIII. p. 203. Ad Quint. Epist. LXXI. p. 194; also ad Pomp. Epist. LXXIV. p. 215, Oxon. 1682. B. Confessions. 2 Helvetic, c. xvii. Bohemia, c. xv. Basil, Scotland, Art. xx. ARTICLE XXXV. ARTICULUS XXXV. De Homiliis. TOMUS secundus Homiliarum, quarum singulos titulos huic Articulo subjunximus, continet piam et salutarem doctrinam, et his temporibus necessariam, non minus quam prior Tomus Homiliarum, quæ editæ sunt tempore Edvardi Sexti; itaque eas in Ecclesiis per ministros diligenter, et dare, ut a populo intelligi possint, recitandas esse judicavimus. 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 understanded of the people. De Nominibus Homiliarum. 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 drunken ness. 6. Against excess of apparel. 7. Of prayer. 8. Of the place and time of prayer. 9. That common prayers and sacraments ought to be ministered in a known tongue. 10. Of the reverent estimation of GOD'S Word. 1 See Bishop Pearson's Answer to Burges, Opusc. vol. 11. pp. 178, 218. 11. Of alms doing. 12. Of the nativity of CHRIST. 15. Of the worthy receiving of the The Phraseology of this Article. 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. 1. As compared with Article XXXIV. of those of 1552. 2. When the Latin and English are compared with each other. 2 The first Book of Homilies was drawn up by Archbishop Cranmer, A.D. 1547. The second Book was printed A.D. 1563, and generally circulated 1564. |