Apparitors.
138. The Number of Apparitors restrained.
Authority of Synods.
139. A National Synod the Church Representative. 140. Synods conclude as well the absent as the present. 141. Depravers of the Synod censured.
CANONS OF 1640. On the 27th May, 1640, the archbishop of Canterbury stated before the convocation that the Canons agreed upon in the sacred synod had been read before the king and the privy-council, and unanimously approved. The first Canon is concerning the regal power; and,
I. Enacts that every parson, vicar, curate, or preacher, shall, under pain of suspension, on four Sundays in each year, at morning prayer, read certain explanations of the regal power, to the effect:—
(1.) That the sacred order of kings is of Divine right, that a supreme power is given by God in Scripture to kings to rule all persons civil and ecclesiastical.
(2.) That the care of God’s Church is committed to kings in the Scripture.
(3.) That the power to call and dissolve national and provincial councils within their own territories is the true right of princes.
(4.) That it is treason against God and the prince for any other to set up any independent co-active power, either papal or popular, within the prince’s territory.