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 Provided always, and be it enacted, that such ornaments of the church, and of the Ministers thereof shall be retained, and be in vse, as was in this church of England by the authority of Parliament in the second year of the reign of King Edward the sixth, vntil other order shall be therein taken, by authority of the Queens Maiesty, with the advice of her Commissioners appointed and authorized vnder the; great seal of England, for causes ecclesiasticall or of the Metropolitane of this Realm. And also, that if there shall happen any contempt or irreverence to be vsed in the Ceremonies or Rites of the Church by the misvsing of the orders appointed in this book : the Queens Maiesty may by the like advice of the said Commissioners, or Metropolitane, ordain and publish such further Ceremonies or Rites, as may be most for the advancement of Gods glory, the edifying of his Church, and the due reverence of Christs holy Mysteries and sacraments.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all lawes Statutes and ordinances wherein or whereby any other service, administration of sacraments, or common prayer is limited, established, or set forth to be vsed within this Realm, or any other the Queens Dominions and Countries shall from henceforth vtterly be voyd and of none effect.