1534/59 Act of Supremacy

The obligations of this

act are as follows:

1)  Increase in virtue (anointing) of Christ’s Religion.

 

2)  Repress and extirpate all errors, heresies, and other enormities and abuses.

 

3)  The Monarch to act in the line of repressing the extremities that are religiously affecting the nation.

 

4)  To conserve the peace, unity and tranquillity of the realm.

 

5)  To repress the infiltration of foreign laws and systems into our nation.

 

1689 Act Establishing the Coronation Oath

Here are the demands of the Oath:

1)  Maintain the statutes, laws and customs of the realm.

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2)  Government of the People is the Monarch’s responsibility according to the statutes of Parliament and the laws and customs of the same.

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3)  Law and justice in mercy to be executed in all judgements.

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4)  The Laws of God maintained, the Monarch being obligated to do this by the utmost of her power meaning she is honour bound not to allow laws onto the statute book that contravene the Word of God, any such law being null and void according to this constitutional demand.

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5)  The utmost of the Monarch’s power has to be used in relation to the ongoing profession of the Gospel and the Protestant Reformed Religion that has been established by law.

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6)  Rights and privileges are given by law to Bishops and clergy meaning in reality that anyone who tries to quieten the ministry of the Gospel would be in effect guilty of High Treason.