The Act itself defines "open prayer" as "that prayer which is for others to come unto or near, either in common churches or private chapels or oratories, commonly called the service of the Church".
After the preamble declaring the desirability of uniformity, the second section enacts that after 1 November, 1552, all persons shall attend their parish church on Sundays and holy days and shall be present at the common prayer, preaching, or other service, under pain of punishment by the censures of the Church.
This Act is of little or no special interest to Catholics, for it was primarily designed to regulate the worship of the Church of England, and so far as Catholics were concerned it added nothing to the provisions of the Edwardine and Elizabethan Acts.
Nonconformist was a term used in England after the Act of Uniformity 1662 to refer to an English subject who separated himself from the established state Church of England.
The term was applied to early English Protestants (such as Puritans and Presbyterians) who violated the Act of Uniformity1559, typically by practicing or advocating radical, sometimes separatist, dissent with respect to the established state church.
Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Baptists, and those less organized, were considered Nonconformists at the time of the 1662 Act of Uniformity.
A Uniformity Bill was introduced into the House of Commons in 1559, and passed with virtually no challenge.
The Act restored the use of the Second Prayer Book of Edward VI with certain minor alterations.
And if any such person, not having any spiritual promotion, after his first conviction shall eftsoons offend in anything concerning the premises, and shall be, in form aforesaid, thereof lawfully convicted, that then the same person shall for his second offence suffer imprisonment during his life.
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Nonconformist was a term used in England after the Act of Uniformity 1662 to refer to an English subject belonging to a non-Christian church or any non-Anglican church.
The term is also applied retrospectively to earlier English Protestants (such as Puritans and Presbyterians) who violated the Act of Uniformity1559, typically by practicing or advocating radical, sometimes separatist, dissent with respect to the established church.
The term dissenter came into use, particularly after the Act of Toleration (1689), which exempted nonconformists who had taken the oaths of allegiance and supremacy from penalties for nonattendance at the services of the Church of England.
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Nonconformist was a term used in England after the Act of Uniformity 1662 to refer to an English subject belonging to a non- Christianity church or any non- Anglican church.
The term is also applied retrospectively to earlier English Protestants (such as Puritan s and Presbyterianism) who violated the Act of Uniformity1559, typically by practicing or advocating radical, sometimes separatist, dissent with respect to the established church.
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Any thinge conteyned in this act to the contrary notwithstandyng.
And that they should put away other thynges, whiche from tyme to tyme, they perceyve to bee moste abused, as in mennes ordinaunces, it often chaunceth diversely in divers countreys.
