Basiliká the works of King Charles the martyr : with a collection of declarations, treaties, and other papers concerning the differences betwixt His said Majesty and his two houses of Parliament : with the history of his life : as also of his tryal and martyrdome.

The Votes or Orders delivered with it.

Die Mercurii, 5. Julii, 1643.

[ VI] ORdered by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, That it shall be pro∣pounded to the Assembly to morrow at their meeting, to take into their Consi∣deration the Ten first Articles of the 39. Articles of the Church of England, to free and vindicate the Doctrine of them from all Aspersions and false Interpretations.

Jovis, 6. Julii, 1643.

Some general Rules for the Assembly, directed by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled.

1. THat two Assessors be joyned to the Prolocutor, to supply his place in case of Ab∣sence or Infirmity.

2. Two Scribes to be appointed to set down all Proceedings, and these to be Di∣vines,

who are not Members of the Assembly, viz. Mr. Henry Robrough, and Mr. Ado∣niram Bifield.

3. Every Member at his first entrance into the Assembly shall make a serious and solemn Protestation, not to maintain any thing but what he believes to be Truth, and to embrace Truth in sincerity when discovered to him.

4. No Resolution to be given upon any Question on the same day wherein it is first Propounded.

5. What any Man undertakes to prove as necessary, he shall make good out of the Scriptures.

6. No Man to proceed in any dispute after the Prolocutor hath enjoyned him silence, unless the Assembly desire he may go on.

7. No Man to be denied to enter his Dissent from the Assembly, and his Reasons for it, in any point, after it hath first been debated in the Assembly; and thence (if the dis∣senting Party desire it) to be sent to the Houses of Parliament by the Assembly, (not by any particular Man or Men in a private way) when either House shall require it.

8. All things agreed on and prepared for the Parliament to be openly read and allowed in the Assembly, and then offered as the Judgement of the Assembly, if the major part assent: Provided that the Opinion of any Persons dissenting and the Reasons urged for it be annexed thereunto (if the Dissenters require it) together with the Solution (if any were) given in the Assembly to those Reasons.

Jovis, 6. Julii, 1643.

I A. B. do seriously and solemnly* 1.1 in the presence of Almighty God, that (in this As∣sembly whereof I am a Member) I will not maintain any thing in matters of Do∣ctrine, but what I think in my Conscience to be Truth, or in point of Discipline, but what I shall conceive to conduce most to the Glory of God, and the good and Peace of his Church.

Veneris, 15. Sept. 1643.

ORdered by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, That it be referred to the Assembly of Divines, to set forth a Declaration of the Reasons and Grounds that have induced the Assembly to give their Opinions, that this Covenant may be taken in point of Conscience.

Eodem Die.

ORdered by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, That it be referred to the Committee formerly appointed to Treat with the Scotch Commissioners, to Treat with them about the manner of taking the Covenant in both Kingdoms.

Mercurii, 22. August. 1643.

ORdered by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, That it be propound∣ed to the Assembly of Divines, to consider of the Doctrine of the Nine next Ar∣ticles of the 39 Articles of the Church of England, to clear and vindicate the same from all Aspersions and false Interpretations.

Notes

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