A memoir of Gabriel Goodman, with some account of Ruthin school, also of Godfrey Goodman

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Page 66 - And all these things I do plainly and sincerely acknowledge and swear according to these express words by me spoken, and according to the plain and common sense and understanding of the same words without any equivocation, mental evasion, or secret reservation whatsoever.
Page 91 - Elizabeth by the Grace of God Queen of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith &c.
Page 144 - And we declare that this situation of the holy table, doth not imply that it is, or ought to be esteemed a true and proper altar, whereon Christ is again really sacrificed : but it is and may be called an altar by us, in that sense in which the primitive church called it an altar, and in no other.
Page 144 - Draw near, fyc. that all Communicants with all humble reverence shall draw near and approach to the holy Table, there to receive the Divine Mysteries, which have heretofore in some places been unfitly carried up and down by the Minister...
Page 142 - I, AB, do swear, that I do approve the doctrine, and discipline, or government established in the Church of England, as containing all things necessary to salvation : and that I will not endeavour by myself or any other, directly or indirectly, to bring in any popish doctrine, contrary to that which is so established : nor will I ever give my consent to alter the government of this Church by archbishops, bishops, deans, and archdeacons, &c., as it stands now established...
Page 149 - ... or dispensation shall be held void to all effects and purposes, as if there had never been any such granted ; and the parties marrying by virtue thereof shall be subject to the punishments which are appointed for clandestine marriages.
Page 140 - Popery, and the growth thereof, by subjecting all popish recusants to the great severity of ecclesiastical censures in that behalf: this present Synod well knowing that there are other sects which endeavour the subversion both of the doctrine and discipline of the Church of England no less than Papists do, although by another way...
Page 142 - I will not endeavour by myself or any other, directly or indirectly, to bring in any popish doctrine, contrary to that which is so established : nor will I ever give my consent to alter the government of this Church by archbishops, bishops, deans, and archdeacons, &c., as it stands now established, and as by right it ought to stand, nor yet ever to subject it to the usurpations and superstitions of the see of Rome.
Page 131 - Convocation for the respective Provinces of Canterbury and York, and the rest of the Bishops and Clergy of those Provinces, and agreed upon with the King's Majesty's Licence in their several Synods...
Page 137 - And if they subscribe, inquiry shall be made what care they take for the instruction of the said children in the catechism established in the book of common prayer. And all ordinaries shall censure those whom they find negligent in the said instruction, and if it shall appear that the parents of the said children do forbid such schoolmasters to bring them up in the doctrine of the Church of England, they shall notwithstanding do their duty; and if thereupon the said parents shall take away their...

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