Form of Donation or Nomination to a Church or Chapel, HIS MAJESTY'S DECLARATION. BEING by God's Ordinance, according to our juft Title, Defender of the Faith, and Supreme Governor of the Church, within thefe our Dominions, we hold it most agreeable to this our kingly Office, and our own religious zeal, to conferve and maintain the Church committed to our charge, in the unity of true Religion, and in the bond of Peace; and not to fuffer unneceffary Difputations, Altercations, or Questions to be raifed, which may nourish faction both in the Church and Commonwealth. We have therefore, upon mature deliberation, and with the advice of fo many of our Bishops as might conveniently be called together, thought fit to make this Declaration following: That the Articles of the Church of England (which have been allowed and authorized beretofore, and which our Clergy generally have fubfcribed unto) do contain the true Doctrine of the Church of England, agreeable to God's Word: which we do therefore ratify and confirm, requiring all our loving fubjects to continue in the uniform profeffion thereof, and probibiting the least difference from the faid Articles; which to that end we command to be new printed, and this our Declaration to be published therewith. That we are Supreme Governor of the Church of England: and that if any difference arife about the external policy, concerning the Injunctions, Canons, and other Conflitutions whatsoever thereto belonging, the Clergy in their Convocation is to order and fettle them, having firft obtained leave under our Broad Seal fo to do, and we approving their faid Ordinances and Conftitutions; providing that none be made contrary to the Laws and Customs of the Land. That out of our princely care, that the Churchmen may do the work which is proper unto them, the Bishops and Clergy, from time to time in Convocation, upon their humble defire, ball bave Licence under our Broad Seal to deliberate of, and to do all fuch things, as being made plain by them, and affented unto by us, fhall concern the fettled continuance of the Doctrine and Difcipline of the Church of England now eftablifhed; from which we will not endure any varying or departing in the leaft degree. R 2 That |