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THE CHARGE VOTED AGAINST BISHOP WREN On Munday , 5. of July , 1641. in the Afternoone , which consists of these severall Particulars following .

ASPICIS VT VIVNNT PELLICANI SANGVINE PVLLI · SIC CHRISTO EFFVSO SANGVINE VIVIS HOMO* printer's or publisher's device

Printed in the yeare , of our Praelates feare , 1641.

Munday , 5 July , 1641. This Afternoone the Charge was voted against Bishop Wren , which consists of these severall Articles folllowing .

Excommunicating , Depriving , or Banishing in the space of 2 years 50 godly , painfull , learned Ministers .

Practising superstition in his own person .

Causing the Communion Table to be placed Altar-wise , and to be railed in , & kneeling and consecrating the Bread and Wine at the West side of the Communion-table with his backe towards the people , and bowing to or before the same .

Elevating the Bread and Wine over his head that the people might see it .

Causing all his Pewes or Seats , to be so contrived , that the people must of necessity kneele with their faces towards the East .

Employed his power to restraine powerfull preaching , forbidding all Sermons on Sundayes Afternoons , or in the week dayes , without his lycense , & lest expounding the Catechisme , and Common-prayer booke , should be as bad as Preaching ; as hee and some of his Officers said , therefore he inhibits any manner of exposition , and injoines ▪ onely the bare Question and Answers in the Common-prayer booke .

And to the end , the people shall not know where there is any Sermons , commands all ringing of Bells to be alike , that so the people may not distinguish where there is a Sermon , or where there is but prayer .

He permitted no Prayer to bee read before Sermon , but that which is directed in the 39. Canon , which hath no warrant of Law , and after Sermon suffers no Prayer at all , but onely Gloria Patri , &c.

He did publish a book of Articles , to which the Church-wardens were to be sworne , and these 39. Articles contain at least 897. Questions . One whereof was this , doth any man discourse profainly at Meale-time , touching Religion or the holy Scripture ?

Another , Doth the Minister expound the holy Scripture , according to the sense of the antient Fathers ?

This , I must beleeve , will pussell the best learned Church-wardens in England to answer .

Thursday next , is appointed to consider what penalty the Bishops have incur'd , by making these Canons which tend to Sedition .

The Result and Conclusion which was drawn from the fore-mentioned Premisses , was that , it was resolved upon the Question , that it is the opinion of this House , that Matthew Wren Bishop of Ely , is unworthy and unfit to hold or exrecise any Office of Dignity in the Church or Common-wealth .

Resolved that there be a Message sent to the Lords to desire them to joyne with the Commons to petition his Majesty to remove Bishop Wren both from his person and service .

FINIS .