WE the Lords Spiritual , and Temporal , and Commons assembled in Parliament , observing that although the Government of the Church by Arch-Bishops and Bishops , and the Book of Common-Prayer , are both setled and established by the Laws of the Land ; Yet divers Fanaticks , and other persons given to change , doe take the boldness not onely to deprave the one , and to speak irreverently of the other : but doe obstinately refuse to submit to that Government , and to use that form of Prayer , in high contempt , and derogation of those Laws , ( which because in some it may proceed from ignorance of the Law , for which there is some pretence , by reason of the long intermission of Iustice , occasioned by the late confusions . ) We doe therefore Publish and Declare , that those Laws are still in force , and that We are fully resolved , by all fair and lawful ways and means to countenance and support the same ; and in order thereunto , We do hereby require all persons whatsoever , to give due obedience to the said Ecclesiastical Government , and to conform themselves to the said Book of Common-Prayer , and to the practise thereof , as the onely publique form of serving God , established and allowed to be in this Realm ; And we do further require all Magistrates Ecclesiastical and Civil , and all other Officers and Ministers of Iustice to proceed with all just severity against the contemners of the said Government or Common-Prayer Book , either by disobedience , by reproachful words , or otherwise , as they will answer the contrary at their utmost perils .